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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Bishop Urges Christians To Call God ‘Allah’

By robert108 on August 15, 2007 at 07:31 pm
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TESTING THE FAITH

Catholic leader believes it would help ease tensions between religions

Catholic churches in the Netherlands should use the name Allah for God to ease tensions between Muslims and Christians, says a Dutch bishop.

Tiny Muskens, the bishop of Breda, told the Dutch TV program “Network” Monday night he believes God doesn’t mind what he is called, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reported.

The Almighty is above such “discussion and bickering,” he insisted.

Muskens points to Indonesia, where he served 30 years ago, as an example for Dutch churches. Christians in the Middle East also use the term Allah for God.

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Muskens made similar remarks several year ago about using the name of Allah, Radio Netherlands reported. He also suggested replacing the national Christian holiday Whit Monday – celebrated the day after Pentecost – with an Islamic religious day.

The bishop also has offended Muslims, saying in 2005 Islam was a religion without a future because it has too many violent aspects.

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Good grief!  Spineless Euros.

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Neiman

If my severe dementia does not rob me of my thinking:

. Allah was an ancient Aramaic word meaning god in a generic sense. It could be applied to any god except Elohim/Jehovah.

. Allah may have been applied to Elohim in ancient Aramaic, but it did not and indeed could not have referred to the Allah, a pagan god in the Kaa ba, because that false god did not come into being until after the Resurrection of Christ.

. Elohim, a very English form of the ancient Hebrew which had no vowels, Jehovah and other such names are specific to the Christian-Jewish Almighty God.

So, in my humble opinion and others I could offer, I think it is absolutely blasphemous to refer to or encourage others to refer to the Judeo-Christian God as Allah, a false pagan deity.

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman on August 17, 2007 at 01:00 pm
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Too right, mate.

Save America; boycott the MSM.

robert108 on August 17, 2007 at 01:11 pm
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