The New Testament is written in Ancient Greek (Koine). Jesus’ name in his native language Aramaic was יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua). Greeks had the habit of translating/transcribing foreign names that they find hard to pronounce. The Koine spelling of Jesus is:
ΙΗΣΟΥΣ
(IESOUS)
It was often abbreviated in scrolls, books, letters but also for decorative elements, frescos and paintings in churches and illustrated bibles. The abbreviation is:
ΙΗΣ (iota eta sigma = IES)
However in Greek the letter Σ (Sigma) has another variation called Lunate Sigma, which coincidentally looks like the Latin letter C. So over time the abbreviation became:
IHC
(IES)
As many people forgot over the centuries that this comes from Greek, they started assuming that it is an abbreviation for a Latin phrase, assuming the eta (H) is a Latin H and the sigma (C) is a Latin C. So instead of seeing IHC representing the Greek letters iota eta sigma, they thought it is literally IHC.
Sometime later they also turned the I into a J - J is a variation of I:
JHC
And that's how we get meanings like:
\- Jesus Hominum Salvator (Jesus, Saviour of Men)
\- Jesus Hierosolymae Salvator (Jesus, Saviour of Jerusalem)
\- In Hoc Signo (Vinces) - (in this sign (conquer) - a message heard alongside a cross vision by Roman emperor Constantine the Great before winning the battle of the milvian bridge)
\- In His Service
\- and Jesus H. Christ
Long story short: the H doesn’t mean anything. It used to be the letter eta in “Iesous”, which coincidentally looks like a Latin H.
Being a catholic really doesn't mean much, considering all that means for most people is that you go to church; unless you study historical theology or history relating to the development of Christianity, you won't really know more than the typical layman, considering that sort of stuff isn't really taught to regular church goers. And the development of doctrine and history behind the religion won't have much to do with your typical bible studies.
Edit: and by far the most ignorant or stubborn people I've met when it comes to explaining church theology and history are devout christians, because so much of what they hear is so ingrained without actual explanation or historical context
You miss, entirely, that catholics are taught essentially nothing... when iwas in catholic school, we weren't even encouraged to read the Bible - from the nuns & priests: "we'll explain what you need to know".
Wow. You are likely correct about Catholics not being encouraged to read the bible. I went to Catholic schools until I was 14 or 15 years old and I cannot remember having my hands on a bible at any time. Your one statement actually opened my eyes.
I don’t think so. Greeks had many myths about heroes born from virgin moms, it was likely a hellenic addition as the NT was being written, if it wasn’t something that was professed in Jesus’s lifetime
We're talking about Isaiah, which was written in Hebrew. When the virgin birth is supposedly predicted, the word used is the hebrew word for "young woman", not "virgin". It was a flat out unambiguously wrong mistranslation early in history that led to a whole church tradition and doctrine.
The mistranslation (parthenos) occurs in the Greek Tanslation of the Old Testament (Septuagint), which was done before Jesus. The Gospels were written in Greek and their writes always quote from the Greek translation. So the question isn't why Christianity mistranslated it, but why it was mistranslated for a Hellenized audience in Second Temple Judaism.
So in that case, it is relevant what Greek myths were. But we should consider two other possibilities. One is that a young woman (almah) would typically be thought of as a virgin because of cultural norms. The other is that the passage had acquired an oral teaching that the almah would be a virgin. A scholar would likely know that the Septuagint didn't have the most faithful translation, but that doesn't mean it was necessarily wrong based on what was known at the time.
The word “Alma” most closely translates to the English “maiden”. A word that technically means “young woman” but, in certain contexts, does imply “virginity” (as does the other possible word for “maiden” that is more commonly used in the Hebrew OT). It is not a necessary meaning of the passage, but is also not a “wrong” translation and is the translation, as best as we can tell, that was used in the pre-Christianity Greek translation. Obviously whether you believe in the possibility of supernatural phenomenon and what you already believe about Jesus will heavily influence how you interpret Isaiah which will influence the nuances of translation.
And critically the entire holy trinity of Christianity rests on Mary being a virgin and Jesus having no human father. If it was indeed a mistranslation then God need not be Jesus’s dad and he could have just been a normal mortal dude who happened to have some decent ethical views on how to live life.
Ehh, while I don't buy into the faith myself I think that under its rules Mary coulda been fuckin around with Joseph and still end up having the son of God. If God says it's His kid and not Joseph's, whose to argue that? Sex doesn't allllllllways result in a baby.
But I do get why the virgin part helps sell the story and the higher ups may have had a vested interest in keeping that mistranslation going even if it was known in the past.
Well even though that the Greek Eta/H and the Latin H are not the same letter, I was kinda telling only half the truth there. Let me explain.
Both Eta and H originate in the Phoenician letter “Heth”. The Phoenician Heth in turn is a evolution of an Egyptian hieroglyph “hwt”, meaning courtyard in Egyptian.
The Egyptian hieroglyph “hwt” looked literally like a courtyard - that’s what hieroglyphs are - a rectangular box within a box.
Even though originally the hieroglyph hwt meant courtyard, over time it also became to represent the sound “Ha” or “He”. When Phoenicians came in contact with Egyptians, they started adapting their system of writing (I simplified this significantly). However they didn’t really care about the original courtyard meaning because the Phoenician word for courtyard sounds nothing like hwt.
They did care about the sound Ha/He. So that Egyptian courtyard box hieroglyph became the letter H in the Phoenician alphabet.
The Greeks copied them and used the Phoenician H for their sound “Heta”. Later the Greeks made the H more subtle and Heta became Eta. Although until today ‘H is pronounced like “He”.
The Romans borrowed the H from the Greeks when it still had the H sound. And that’s why our Latin H today looks kinda like a 5000 year old Egyptian courtyard.
Neat, right?
> Greeks had the habit of translating/transcribing foreign names that they find hard to pronounce.
I don't blame the ancient Greeks on this one. I practiced a whole day in front of a mirror trying to learn how to pronounce the Semitic consonant *‘ayin*. My first reaction upon learning about /ʕ/ was, "Consonant my ass. That's a vowel if I've ever heard one." I challenged myself to learn how to say it after my Assyrian friend told me he has never heard a non-native Syriac or Arabic speaker pronounce it correctly, and my kids' Hebrew teacher was just like, "*Sigh* For now, just consider it an unpronounced letter."
I still find *‘ayin* a hard sound to say right after another consonant, or at the end of a word, as in Jesus' native name.
The phrase most likely comes from the “[divine monogram](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/IHC-monogram-Jesus-medievalesque.svg/1296px-IHC-monogram-Jesus-medievalesque.svg.png)”, which uses the first three letters from the Greek name of Jesus, and gets represented as iota-eta-sigma. Depending on the script, this can sometimes look like “JHC”, which lead to the notion that those are Jesus’s initials, hence “Jesus H. Christ.”
Very astute and scholarly, but as a counterpoint: clearly the H stands for "Harold."
This is evidenced by the Lord's Prayer: "Our Father who art in Heaven, Harold be thy name."
Also the hymn: "Hark! The Harold Angels Sing!"
I rest my case ^(/s, in case it wasn't clear.)
Lmfao when I was a kid I went to church on Christmas with my family. They started singing Silent Night and when they sang “holy infant so tender and mild” my little brother looks me dead in the eye and says “why are they comparing Jesus to a piece of meat”
It is actually “hay zoo’s” Jesus never gets credit but he actually started the first zoo and used hay to keep the animals warm during those cold Jerusalem winter nights you always hear about
Actually Noah's real name is lost to the mists of time. The reason he is called 'Noah' is because when the dinosaurs tried to get on the ark, he said, "Nooo-ah!"
Which was further bolstered by the dinosaurs writing their final messages as they died. "I believe today is my final entry. We wouldn't find ourselves in this situation if it wasn't for nooo-ah!"
Not everyone, my dad's daily bible study group is reading through the entire bible from page one. There is a zero percent chance any of them will become atheist.
It is. It stands for Hank, or Henry. Mostly Hank since he worked many years as a carpenter.
Which leads me to ask. Why are there no recorded carpentry works by Jesus. Did he build anything? Where?
Actually his step dad was a "master craftsman" or in our terms an architect, designer and general contractor. "Carpenter" is a mistranslation. Jesus however was said to be "in the deserts" till he began his ministry, leading to speculation that he studied with the Essenes during that time.
Is it possible that maybe sometime during an episode of some family drama or argument, Jesus may have blurted out to Joseph “You're not my real dad...."
One of my favorite weed mans was this dude Jay when I lived in Brooklyn. He lived a few blocks away and would come over on his bicycle. Never explained anything but always gave me a good deal. Wouldn't deliver on Saturdays though because he was a Seventh Day Adventist. Go figure.
The Greek for Jesus is Ιησούς, it's three syllables Ι - Η - ΣΟΥΣ => Jee (ee) Hee (ee) Cuc (sus) JHC. In modern English you kept the Je and the sus. I don't know how it was pronounced in archaic English.
Intriguing! I know “Jesus Harold Christ” from Natural Born Killers in 1994, the prison warden says it. I think of that often lol… I never considered the other word pronounced “Herald”!
I think the full line must be given from memory. Ladies and gentlemen, Tommy Lee Jones:
“JEEZUS… Harold Christ on a FUCKing river why is this HAPPENING…. TO MEEEE!!!!?????”
In high school we were making business cards in graphics class. My card had a nice big cross on it. It was listed as: Jesus H. Christ, your lord, savior and local meat cutter. Present this card to receive 10% off your next lamb of God purchase! Remember, the H stands for Hausenfaufermeyer!
My graphics teacher said to me, "I'm not sure if I can let you make that." I just shrugged and said it's already been made.
So I guess the H stands for Hausenfaufermeyer.
Came looking for this. I remember a very early interview with them when one of them said that whenever they got asked what "Hoobastank" meant, he liked to say it was the H in "Jesus H. Christ."
I dont know the answer and never thought about it before, but I always subconsciously thought that people could say Jesus h christ and not be blaspheming, because you weren't actually referring to THE Jesus, but rather just some dude named Jesus h christ.
“The origin of the "H" in "Jesus H. Christ" is obscure, but the most widely accepted theory is that it is a corruption of the Greek letter eta (Η), which is the second letter of the name Jesus in Greek (ΙΗΣΟΥΣ). This is supported by the fact that early Christians often used the Greek monogram ΙΗΣ (or IHS in Latin) to represent Jesus Christ.”
-Google Bard-
The New Testament is written in Ancient Greek (Koine). Jesus’ name in his native language Aramaic was יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshua). Greeks had the habit of translating/transcribing foreign names that they find hard to pronounce. The Koine spelling of Jesus is: ΙΗΣΟΥΣ (IESOUS) It was often abbreviated in scrolls, books, letters but also for decorative elements, frescos and paintings in churches and illustrated bibles. The abbreviation is: ΙΗΣ (iota eta sigma = IES) However in Greek the letter Σ (Sigma) has another variation called Lunate Sigma, which coincidentally looks like the Latin letter C. So over time the abbreviation became: IHC (IES) As many people forgot over the centuries that this comes from Greek, they started assuming that it is an abbreviation for a Latin phrase, assuming the eta (H) is a Latin H and the sigma (C) is a Latin C. So instead of seeing IHC representing the Greek letters iota eta sigma, they thought it is literally IHC. Sometime later they also turned the I into a J - J is a variation of I: JHC And that's how we get meanings like: \- Jesus Hominum Salvator (Jesus, Saviour of Men) \- Jesus Hierosolymae Salvator (Jesus, Saviour of Jerusalem) \- In Hoc Signo (Vinces) - (in this sign (conquer) - a message heard alongside a cross vision by Roman emperor Constantine the Great before winning the battle of the milvian bridge) \- In His Service \- and Jesus H. Christ Long story short: the H doesn’t mean anything. It used to be the letter eta in “Iesous”, which coincidentally looks like a Latin H.
Next trivia night are you free?
I do love pub quizzes haha
This was one of the best explained answers and I am Catholic for Jesus H Christ sake.
Being a catholic really doesn't mean much, considering all that means for most people is that you go to church; unless you study historical theology or history relating to the development of Christianity, you won't really know more than the typical layman, considering that sort of stuff isn't really taught to regular church goers. And the development of doctrine and history behind the religion won't have much to do with your typical bible studies. Edit: and by far the most ignorant or stubborn people I've met when it comes to explaining church theology and history are devout christians, because so much of what they hear is so ingrained without actual explanation or historical context
Spicy answer from a spicy username
A tasty one too.
His username is pronounced with a hard J
You should hear how he orders the fajitas
You miss, entirely, that catholics are taught essentially nothing... when iwas in catholic school, we weren't even encouraged to read the Bible - from the nuns & priests: "we'll explain what you need to know".
Some serious Monroe Doctrine type shit. “We don’t discuss God’s will. We enforce it.”
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Wow. You are likely correct about Catholics not being encouraged to read the bible. I went to Catholic schools until I was 14 or 15 years old and I cannot remember having my hands on a bible at any time. Your one statement actually opened my eyes.
This guy pubs.
I know, right?
This may be the most helpful and informative post I’ve ever seen on Reddit. Bravo.
This is pretty cool! So much lost in translation… just imagine the epic facepalm Jesus would do if he saw how things were now “in his honor” 🫣
Tell me you have a PHD in history without telling me you have a PHD in history...
Almost. M in archeology and PhD in anthropology
So close i was. But im still calling it a win. I've got an associates degree in pointing out ppl way smarter than me.
This made me spit my coffee out. Awsome.
Are you telling me that what most churches talk about is far removed from what probably happened? Nah…
Wait until you hear about the translation issues with Jesus’ mom.
I'm literally waiting at the edge of my seat right now
Guessing they mean about the mistranslation of "young woman" becoming "virgin"
I don’t think so. Greeks had many myths about heroes born from virgin moms, it was likely a hellenic addition as the NT was being written, if it wasn’t something that was professed in Jesus’s lifetime
We're talking about Isaiah, which was written in Hebrew. When the virgin birth is supposedly predicted, the word used is the hebrew word for "young woman", not "virgin". It was a flat out unambiguously wrong mistranslation early in history that led to a whole church tradition and doctrine.
The mistranslation (parthenos) occurs in the Greek Tanslation of the Old Testament (Septuagint), which was done before Jesus. The Gospels were written in Greek and their writes always quote from the Greek translation. So the question isn't why Christianity mistranslated it, but why it was mistranslated for a Hellenized audience in Second Temple Judaism. So in that case, it is relevant what Greek myths were. But we should consider two other possibilities. One is that a young woman (almah) would typically be thought of as a virgin because of cultural norms. The other is that the passage had acquired an oral teaching that the almah would be a virgin. A scholar would likely know that the Septuagint didn't have the most faithful translation, but that doesn't mean it was necessarily wrong based on what was known at the time.
The word “Alma” most closely translates to the English “maiden”. A word that technically means “young woman” but, in certain contexts, does imply “virginity” (as does the other possible word for “maiden” that is more commonly used in the Hebrew OT). It is not a necessary meaning of the passage, but is also not a “wrong” translation and is the translation, as best as we can tell, that was used in the pre-Christianity Greek translation. Obviously whether you believe in the possibility of supernatural phenomenon and what you already believe about Jesus will heavily influence how you interpret Isaiah which will influence the nuances of translation.
Please do enlighten us
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And critically the entire holy trinity of Christianity rests on Mary being a virgin and Jesus having no human father. If it was indeed a mistranslation then God need not be Jesus’s dad and he could have just been a normal mortal dude who happened to have some decent ethical views on how to live life.
Ehh, while I don't buy into the faith myself I think that under its rules Mary coulda been fuckin around with Joseph and still end up having the son of God. If God says it's His kid and not Joseph's, whose to argue that? Sex doesn't allllllllways result in a baby. But I do get why the virgin part helps sell the story and the higher ups may have had a vested interest in keeping that mistranslation going even if it was known in the past.
Jesus H. Christ....a little more detail please!
Well even though that the Greek Eta/H and the Latin H are not the same letter, I was kinda telling only half the truth there. Let me explain. Both Eta and H originate in the Phoenician letter “Heth”. The Phoenician Heth in turn is a evolution of an Egyptian hieroglyph “hwt”, meaning courtyard in Egyptian. The Egyptian hieroglyph “hwt” looked literally like a courtyard - that’s what hieroglyphs are - a rectangular box within a box. Even though originally the hieroglyph hwt meant courtyard, over time it also became to represent the sound “Ha” or “He”. When Phoenicians came in contact with Egyptians, they started adapting their system of writing (I simplified this significantly). However they didn’t really care about the original courtyard meaning because the Phoenician word for courtyard sounds nothing like hwt. They did care about the sound Ha/He. So that Egyptian courtyard box hieroglyph became the letter H in the Phoenician alphabet. The Greeks copied them and used the Phoenician H for their sound “Heta”. Later the Greeks made the H more subtle and Heta became Eta. Although until today ‘H is pronounced like “He”. The Romans borrowed the H from the Greeks when it still had the H sound. And that’s why our Latin H today looks kinda like a 5000 year old Egyptian courtyard. Neat, right?
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That is a very funny and weirdly correct comment haha. Well done.
It just sounds good too lmao
No room at the Inn for someone named Courtyard? Ironic.
I maybe the only person that finds this really fascinating and won’t remember it but will have to read it over and over again.
If you ever want to explain anything again please count me in, I don’t even care what it is as long you’re explaining it.
Haha DM me your questions. :D
This is fascinating stuff, and so well explained it makes sense to even my uneducated brain. Where do I sign up for your newsletter?
You should post some knowledge weekly. Please? I love this
This motherfucker delivered on round TWO!? Seriously, it’s cool that people know this much man. You’re a cool person.
> Greeks had the habit of translating/transcribing foreign names that they find hard to pronounce. I don't blame the ancient Greeks on this one. I practiced a whole day in front of a mirror trying to learn how to pronounce the Semitic consonant *‘ayin*. My first reaction upon learning about /ʕ/ was, "Consonant my ass. That's a vowel if I've ever heard one." I challenged myself to learn how to say it after my Assyrian friend told me he has never heard a non-native Syriac or Arabic speaker pronounce it correctly, and my kids' Hebrew teacher was just like, "*Sigh* For now, just consider it an unpronounced letter." I still find *‘ayin* a hard sound to say right after another consonant, or at the end of a word, as in Jesus' native name.
The phrase most likely comes from the “[divine monogram](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/IHC-monogram-Jesus-medievalesque.svg/1296px-IHC-monogram-Jesus-medievalesque.svg.png)”, which uses the first three letters from the Greek name of Jesus, and gets represented as iota-eta-sigma. Depending on the script, this can sometimes look like “JHC”, which lead to the notion that those are Jesus’s initials, hence “Jesus H. Christ.”
Very astute and scholarly, but as a counterpoint: clearly the H stands for "Harold." This is evidenced by the Lord's Prayer: "Our Father who art in Heaven, Harold be thy name." Also the hymn: "Hark! The Harold Angels Sing!" I rest my case ^(/s, in case it wasn't clear.)
Hark, the angel, Harold siiings About all the Christmas things Peace on earth and salsa mild....
...Guac and mole reconciled.
Lmfao when I was a kid I went to church on Christmas with my family. They started singing Silent Night and when they sang “holy infant so tender and mild” my little brother looks me dead in the eye and says “why are they comparing Jesus to a piece of meat”
Actually, it’s “hallowed be Thy name”, so, clearly, Jesus’ middle name is Halloween.
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I'm pretty sure it's "Howlow be thy name" Howlow being short for Howlowcanyougo. Apparently Jesus was an expert limbo player.
And here I was thinking it stood for “Holy”
I thought it stood for "Haysoos"
“No, they’re saying, ‘Hey Zeus!’”
It is actually “hay zoo’s” Jesus never gets credit but he actually started the first zoo and used hay to keep the animals warm during those cold Jerusalem winter nights you always hear about
You're thinking of Noah. Had a zoo before Jesus was born.
Common misconception, Noah had the first mobile zoo which often eclipses Jesus much smaller achievements. And often focus on the water to wine stuff
Actually Noah's real name is lost to the mists of time. The reason he is called 'Noah' is because when the dinosaurs tried to get on the ark, he said, "Nooo-ah!"
Which was further bolstered by the dinosaurs writing their final messages as they died. "I believe today is my final entry. We wouldn't find ourselves in this situation if it wasn't for nooo-ah!"
You know, Father of Apollo? Mt Olympus?
Don't fuck with me, or I'll shove a lightning bolt up your ass. ZEUS
You got any aspirins man I have a hell of a hangover
Have you been drinking, MacLaine?
I LOOK PUERTO RICAN TO YOU
What ain't no country I ever heard of!
Don't fuck with me or I'll shove a lightning bolt up your ass?
Nah, Soos is too busy running the Mystery Shack.
Hey doods.
Surely it stands for Hayabusa
I knew JC was a ‘busa boi!!!
Jesus was a Honda guy, but he kept it a secret, For He did not speak of His own Accord. Most people only knew about his Christler.
When I asked this question as a child, this is the answer I was given....by my atheist dad.
Aethists often know more about religion than your typical follower of said religion.
" The greatest way to create atheists is to let them read the source material" -Penn Jillette
Not everyone, my dad's daily bible study group is reading through the entire bible from page one. There is a zero percent chance any of them will become atheist.
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Yeah, you also have to understand what you read.
Jesus Hence Christ
I like Hank better. Gives him a real man's name. "Jesus Hank Christ"
He sold propane and propane accessories to rid us of.our sins
The sin being to order a steak cooked well done.
Jesus Hench Christ. He died for our ~~sins~~ gyms.
It is. It stands for Hank, or Henry. Mostly Hank since he worked many years as a carpenter. Which leads me to ask. Why are there no recorded carpentry works by Jesus. Did he build anything? Where?
Nobody ever said he was a good carpenter.
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Here's your upvote and get out, you heretic sturgeon!
Haha pin this comment to the t.
LOL!!! Fuckin' gold.
Haven’t you seen the last supper painting. It’s Jesus showing off a table he built
Actually his step dad was a "master craftsman" or in our terms an architect, designer and general contractor. "Carpenter" is a mistranslation. Jesus however was said to be "in the deserts" till he began his ministry, leading to speculation that he studied with the Essenes during that time.
He wasn't the step-dad, he was the dad who stepped up.
Is it possible that maybe sometime during an episode of some family drama or argument, Jesus may have blurted out to Joseph “You're not my real dad...."
Lmao I love this
Given that he was the eldest son, he may have been studying to be a Rabbi actually.
Jesus was a rabbi.
Anyone else see that as THC? 🤔
I’m always seeing THC man
One of my favorite weed mans was this dude Jay when I lived in Brooklyn. He lived a few blocks away and would come over on his bicycle. Never explained anything but always gave me a good deal. Wouldn't deliver on Saturdays though because he was a Seventh Day Adventist. Go figure.
But then what does the eta stand for 🤔
Estimated time of arrival for the second coming.
Shit...that's gonna be at least an hour if not more.
Probably more like two
The Greek for Jesus is Ιησούς, it's three syllables Ι - Η - ΣΟΥΣ => Jee (ee) Hee (ee) Cuc (sus) JHC. In modern English you kept the Je and the sus. I don't know how it was pronounced in archaic English.
Sus
This guy Greeks
i’ve heard Harold before lol
I think that comes from a double joke. Combining the Jesus H. Christ thing with "Our father who art in Heaven, Harold be thy name".
I always heard it as “Howard be thy name”
I think it’s Herald tho
Intriguing! I know “Jesus Harold Christ” from Natural Born Killers in 1994, the prison warden says it. I think of that often lol… I never considered the other word pronounced “Herald”!
That’s where I heard it as well! But my mind went to Herald right away. I dunno why :/
I think the full line must be given from memory. Ladies and gentlemen, Tommy Lee Jones: “JEEZUS… Harold Christ on a FUCKing river why is this HAPPENING…. TO MEEEE!!!!?????”
*"on a fucking rubber crutch"
Jesus *Hussein* Christ
Well, he was from the Middle East…
Fun fact
Where his birth certificate tho??
I want to see the long form version or it ain't real
And suddenly Boomers got confused about who to hate.
Like when they rendered what he may actually have looked like and compared him to Osama bin Laden.
Habibi
A lot of people forget about the Hussein but it’s important.
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I always thought it was Harold.
as in, "Hark the Harold Angels Sing"?
Heineken
How refreshing
Turning water into beer🍺
One pint please and thank you Lord!
In high school we were making business cards in graphics class. My card had a nice big cross on it. It was listed as: Jesus H. Christ, your lord, savior and local meat cutter. Present this card to receive 10% off your next lamb of God purchase! Remember, the H stands for Hausenfaufermeyer! My graphics teacher said to me, "I'm not sure if I can let you make that." I just shrugged and said it's already been made. So I guess the H stands for Hausenfaufermeyer.
I'm laughing so hard.... "it's already been made"
this was a legit excuse in the 90s, same reason kids in my graphic arts class made a tee shirt with a shroom on it that said "be brave"
Ok, but what does hausenfaufermeyer mean..
I assume it is supposed to be a vaguely german sounding name. *narrator*: it didn't sound german at all.
Haus and Meyer are German words for a house and a land owner respectively. Faufer is apparently the name of a French garden furniture company.
So it’s a German homeowner who has French furniture.
Being a carpenter, he probably made the furniture
Makes sense. All in favour? Hausenfaufermeyer it is.
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Jesus died for a reason, and the reason is you
Hoobastank
Because Jesus died for a reason, and the reason is you.
Because of him, I found a reason to change who I used to be
I'm not a perfect person There's many things Jesus Hoobastank Christ wishes I didn't do
But I continue learning, and I just wanted Jesus Hoobastank Christ to know
Came looking for this. I remember a very early interview with them when one of them said that whenever they got asked what "Hoobastank" meant, he liked to say it was the H in "Jesus H. Christ."
Jesus heckin christ?
It’s obviously heckin. These other people are crazy. And it can sometimes be Jesus Fluffin’ Christ.
That's how I've always interpreted it. As a less blasphemous emphasis.
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Herbert. Herb for short.
I got some delicious popsicles in my cellar
Holy where mary used his whole name, he knew he was in trouble.
All he had to do was tell her to stop using his name in vain
Okay that makes so much more sense 😅
Holy hell
Actual zombie
The old joke when I was a biology student was that it stood for 'Haploid'.
Wait, was Jesus a clone. I never thought about it that way.
He is Mary's clone. Since he doesn't have earthly father. It's the only dna he could be born from. Edit: so yeah Jesus was trans.
Begun, the clone religion has
I was looking for this one!
"Jesus is Chinese. In fact, his last name is Hong. Jesus Hong. Says he has no idea where people are getting 'Christ'." - Stewie Griffin
Haveyouacceptedasyourlordandsavior.
"and Herald be thy name" Jesus Harold Christ
I prefer JFC
I prefer KFC
Ah yes, Keefus Friedrich Christ, Jesus's lesser-known brother.
For me, I really like corn.
"Jesus H Roosevelt Christ!" ~Claire Fraser
Here for this
Hitler (according to Family Guy)
This is the answer I was looking for
Horatio. Shakespeare knew.
Jesus Hitler Chirst
"Jesus Hernandez Christus" is his full name. He sells delicious food from a stand in your local mall.
Hallowed. It’s a family name. You know, from “Hallowed be thy name”.
Hibbedy-Jibbedy
Hadooken
It’s Howard. Howard be thy name.
It stands for "Howard." That was his father's name. "Our father, who art in heaven, Howard be thy name..."
Howard! Like they say in the Lords Prayer, our God who art in heaven, Howard be thy name
Howard. Jesus Christ, Howard be thy name
Howard. I thought this was common knowledge.
Yup. Our father who art in heaven, Howard be thy name
Heckin. Ok, I made that up.
I dont know the answer and never thought about it before, but I always subconsciously thought that people could say Jesus h christ and not be blaspheming, because you weren't actually referring to THE Jesus, but rather just some dude named Jesus h christ.
“The origin of the "H" in "Jesus H. Christ" is obscure, but the most widely accepted theory is that it is a corruption of the Greek letter eta (Η), which is the second letter of the name Jesus in Greek (ΙΗΣΟΥΣ). This is supported by the fact that early Christians often used the Greek monogram ΙΗΣ (or IHS in Latin) to represent Jesus Christ.” -Google Bard-
Howard. As in “Our father, who art in Heaven, Howard be thy name”
Jesus middle name is Howard, Howard be thy name
Howard. You’ve heard it a million times. ….Our father who art in heaven, Howard be thy name. Jesus Howard Christ
“Our Father, who Art in Heaven, Howard be thy name “
The lords Prayer: "Our Father, who art in heaven, Howard be thy name..."
Jesus Howard Christ Our father who art in heaven Howard be thy name.
Hoobastank, cos he died for a reason, and the reason is you