A man who wanted to change his name to God chose a new name when a judge turned down his request. The former Charles Haffey's new name is I Am Who I Am. The former Haffey said after his first choice was rejected, he went to the Bible to find a backup. He drew on a passage where Moses asks God who he is and hears: "I am who I am or I will be who I will be."* "That's kind of wordy, so I'm just going for 'I Am Who I Am' as my full legal name," he said. "My first name, of course, would be 'I Am.'" The 55-year-old said he sought the name change as a way to gain release from feelings of anxiety and rage that have plagued him since he served in Vietnam. "I was fatally wounded in the mind and the spirit," he said. "I didn't suffer any bodily injury. It's just what I saw, what I did. I killed myself." Who I Am became a Christian and was baptized in April. It was shortly after that when he decided to change everything, beginning with his name. He bought a tombstone to be inscribed with his former name. He said it will read, "Charles Walter Haffey, born Sept. 23, 1948, and died Oct. 21, 1968, Vietnam."

*这句话出自《旧约·出埃及记》。其中讲到以色列先知摩西在何烈山（西奈山）上遇到上帝，上帝叫他带领以色列人离开埃及。摩西询问上帝的名字，上帝即如此作答。

法官拒绝了一名男子把名字改成“上帝”的请求，这位先生于是选择了一个新的名字。前查尔斯·哈菲先生的新名字是“我是·我所是”。 前哈菲先生说，在自己的首选名字被否决后，他从《圣经》中找到了替代品。他的灵感来自《圣经》中的一段，其中讲到摩西询问上帝的名字，上帝的回答是：“我是自有永有的（我是我所是，亦将是我所是）。” “这有点太长了，所以我只用‘我是我所是’作为自己的法定全名，”前哈菲先生说。“至于我的名字，当然就是‘我是’了。”55岁的前哈菲先生说他希望名字的改变能使他摆脱焦虑和愤怒的感觉，他从参加越战开始就一直被这样的感觉所困扰。“我的心智和精神遭到了致命的伤害，”他说。“我的身体毫发无损，是我看到和所做的一切伤害了我。我杀死了我自己。”我所是先生皈依了基督教并在4月份受了洗，此后不久即决定由名字开始进行脱胎换骨的改变。他买了一块墓碑，打算在上面刻下自己以前的名字。他说，碑文会是这样的：“查尔斯·沃尔特·哈菲，生于1948年9月23日，1968年10月21日死于越南。”

Remarks：元曲作家睢景臣在《高祖还乡》中借一位老农的口说，刘邦在赢得楚汉战争后“改了名换了姓唤作汉高祖”。刘邦毕竟是少数，战争过后，还是像这样想改名叫上帝的比较多。