# Is this website url seem too religious? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2014, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-website-url-seem-too-religious/701660 "2014-10-18T05:27:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-website-url-seem-too-religious/701660/21 "2014-10-19T01:04:04Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I agree with everyone else. May I ask the story behind the idea for the name, or an explanation of how you interpreted it non-religiously? Yes, I guess it isn’t going to work. Good thing I didn’t buy the domain name at Dreamhost. :rolleyes:It’s sad, though, that there’s no way it would give the right impression. The story and explanation would work in a blog post or FAQ page, I think. They don’t really make sense without the entire story. But basically, it’s about getting through a crisis by having faith that may or may not be religious… it can be faith in your body’s ability to heal, faith in the doctors at Oregon Health and Science University, faith that you can survive anything thrown at you, and so on. Okay, here’s another possibility: (altered to be nonclickable) www. stemcellhopeandhype. com Better? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-website-url-seem-too-religious/701660/22 "2014-10-19T02:16:10Z")
If I saw a website that had the word hype in it, I’d infer that you don’t believe in stem cell research or at least you think a lot of it is BS and you plan to tell us just exactly why you think that based on nothing other then why you think the scientists don’t know what their talking about. Next up, chemtrails!!! And, again, wouldn’t click on it if that’s what I was looking for. If that’s the direction you’re heading, then that’s fine, don’t defend the name, just buy it and build your blog, otherwise, IMHO, don’t over complicate it. Something simple like MySCJourney (or MyStemCellJourney) or anything else like that would be fine. But with names like that you’re going to lose clicks before people even read the little two line blurb that Google shows them. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-website-url-seem-too-religious/701660/23 "2014-10-19T14:16:10Z")
The answer is yes. My first response on reading the URL was “more religious glurge…”. I would therefore not click on it. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-website-url-seem-too-religious/701660/24 "2014-10-19T20:24:54Z")
> [@Anise](#): > > But basically, it’s about getting through a crisis by having faith that may or may not be religious… Hmmm… I’m starting to see the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-website-url-seem-too-religious/701660/25 "2014-10-20T02:30:52Z")
“Stem Cell Hope and Hype” just does not imply that the site is a source of reliable information. It sounds like someone’s personal blog. The other title sounded similarly unprofessional. From your description in the OP, it does sound like it’s going to be a personal blog, though. Is that what you’re going for? > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > It is a [phrase taken from the Bible](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+5%3A7&version=KJV). Not that that automatically makes it “too religious”: [plenty of secular books have titles taken from the Bible](http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8866.Book_Titles_Based_on_Lines_from_the_Bible). A title that is a biblical reference does not necessarily imply that the work is religious, possibly because we’re so used to hearing biblical phrases and metaphors in certain secular contexts. In the United States in 2014, however, the word “faith” has become virtually synonymous with “religious” when used in certain contexts. A web address is certainly one of those contexts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-website-url-seem-too-religious/701660.md?page=1)