Baptism by... Dishwater?

This is the first of many short stories about assignments in my religious studies classes in Catholic school.

Saints List from the Catholic Church website:
http://www.catholic.org/saints/

Here's a direct link to the saint I chose for class, St. Emily de Vialar:
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=117

Questions:
1) For Catholics - What saint were you named after?
2) For non-Catholics - Which saint would you choose if you had to complete that assignment.

Watch my other "Growing Up Atheist" videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=072BEE3462A435DA

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I know I've been gone for a ridiculous amount of time, but I AM working on more videos. I have another one in editing in this series and I've got 2 more fillers from the Science Museum that no one will care about but I'm going to post anyway because I can! :P

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[dganir1]

Why are so many "atheists" actually Jews? And why do they always pretend to have been raised Catholic?

[BornWithoutReligion]

@dganir1 lol, what? Why would I lie? And I never said I was raised catholic, I said I was raised atheist because I was. My parents were raised catholic. BIG difference.

[janover73]

I´m looking around your videos, havent found -yet- the reason for you attending a Catholic school, being unreligious. No matter which the reason, that is a brave task.

[BornWithoutReligion]

@janover73 I'll have to go back through my Growing up Atheist playlist to see if I missed that (sometimes I put things in the description box that I forget to say when I'm recording). Basically, public schools downtown were crap and I was frustrated with catering to the lowest common denominator so we went private. Catholic school was the only real option given my parent's price range, and since my parents used to be Catholics they figured it would be fine. And it was :)

[TonyPstunts]

Lol, I find it Ironic that Im a gay man and Im named after my grand mother. Shes Antoinette, and I am Anthony.

[BornWithoutReligion]

@TonyPstunts OMG! I'm a lesbian and I was named after my grandFATHER! His name was Emil, so I became Emily... I never thought of how odd that was

[Swackers90]

i was baptised as an SDA. we don't fallow false Catholic traditions.

[HybridD91]

PRAISE THA LAWD YESSSS! My name is saintless.

Unholy since birth, blasphemous to the soul.

[Raphaelus13]

I was born in St Anthonies'day, so thats my second name. But here in PR I don't think I've seen that tradition of the 'çhristian name' imposed.

[AdonTimasu]

@BornWithoutReligion Saint John - John's my middle name.

[Cinafoil]

lol, I was baptized, but I don't have a Christian name.

Can't wait to be de-baptized though, looking into it.

[flyingshitter]

I don't know why but in the society where I was raised, which was heavily Roman-Catholic, a lot priests were plain assholes. The one that was teaching the religion class, I had to attend, was, even, acting in an uncivilized, extremely unpleasant manner. He carried a rubber stick as he walked along the classroom and sometimes would hit one of the desks. He was very rude towards the students. I still remember how he tore one of the students notebook, in half, in a rage fit. That was plain insane.

[panthpope]

the south american version of catholicism is very light. where i'm from we don't get a 'christian' name. the name our parents give us is the same as the one in the baptism. so they are not particularly chosen after saints. i have no clue who my godparents are. i was named after a famous bloodthirsty tyrant...because my dad is a sociopath and he admired him, so yea! super fun times :)

[undertehlaw]

Your mother is awesome.