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Los Angeles is named after "Nuestra Senora la Reyna de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula.
Philadelphia is the city of brotherly love - which is a Christian concept.
San Diego, San Antonio, and San Jose are all named after Christian saints.
Why so much intolerance of religion from the left?
Philadelphia has the origins from the 220 B.C.E. city Attalus II Philadelphus, named after a Pergamon king in what is now Turkey.
But nice try.
Also, the names from the cities such as Los Angeles, etc. are the names from the missions that populated the area. In 1777 Felipe de Neve established a pueblo in tradition with the Vitruvius teachings as a foundation and established San Jose de Guadalupe. Ten years later the pueblo "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de Porciuncula"was given to establish the area.
No Christian concepts here. Just names in order to sanctify the religion used as an authoritative of the political hierarchy and landscape.
Arizona (either from árida zona, meaning arid zone, or from a Spanish word of Basque origin meaning the good oak) California (from the name of a fictional island country in "Las sergas de Esplandián", a popular Spanish chivalric romance by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo) Colorado (meaning "red [colored]" or "ruddy". Named after the Colorado River, whose waters were of that color.) Florida (Meaning "flowery" or "florid", because it was discovered by Ponce de León on Easter Sunday, called Pascua Florida to distinguish this holiday, which occurs in springtime when flowers are abundant, from other Christian holidays called Pascua in Spanish, such as Christmas and Epiphany. Montana (from montaña, meaning "mountain") Nevada (meaning "snowy", from Sierra Nevada, meaning "snow capped range of mountains". Sierra means "a range of mountains,", literally "a saw," from Latin serra. New Mexico (Calqued from Nuevo México) Texas (based on the Caddo word teshas meaning "friends" or "allies", which was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in East Texas). The letter x had a "sh" sound in 16th century Spanish which gradually evolved to an "h" sound, which under later spelling reforms was assigned to the letter j (which originally also had a "zh", "j" or "y" sound). Thus the modern Spanish spelling Tejas, which sounds like "Tehas". Utah (Spanish word of Nahuatl origin, first used by friar Gerónimo Salmerón as Yuta or Uta in Spanish[1])
Not exactly; because it ought to be recognized that organized religion, and Catholicism in particular, played a pivotal role in getting things started with regard to the development of the New World. In the Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella, something on the order (pun intentional) of one person in ten was affiliated with the Church as a priest, nun or monk.
Regardles of what we as individuals might think about the role of religion in that day, it was one of the few available sources of organized manpower, as well as accumulated wealth.
Los Angeles is named after "Nuestra Senora la Reyna de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula.
Philadelphia is the city of brotherly love - which is a Christian concept.
San Diego, San Antonio, and San Jose are all named after Christian saints.
Why so much intolerance of religion from the left?
Huh? First off four of those cities were named under the Spanish empire. You know, the same Spanish empire that had the inquisition.
Secondly, how do the names of these cities have any bearing on the left or the right? Hell, these cities were named before the concept of left and right even existed. Why don't you make an equally bogus argument like why does the left use money when it all says in god we trust?
Lastly, your advocacy for some loving christianity falls mighty short.
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Calling your bluff.
