What Name Do You Use When Speaking to God?
By
Paulie B
on August 15, 2007 at 01:56 pm
Roman Catholic Bishop Wants Everyone to Call God ‘Allah’
What?!?! Can this Muskens guy be serious?
Of course some Muslim guy is going to get behind this idea; it blinds others to who they are. They want non-Muslims to think that everything is the same. It would make their religion easier for others to accept as true. But my God isn’t the god that the Muslims pray to. If that were the case, then why wouldn’t Muslims call their god Yahweh or Jesus Christ…? Or the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost…? But the whole ‘there is no god but Allah’ thing doesn’t really match up with the Trinity.
Crazy stuff like this is what happens when post modernists and such fail to see the importance of language and communication. Words mean something.
But when my God says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” then I do think that He would care if I started calling upon the name of Allah.
A proposal by a Roman Catholic bishop in the Netherlands that people of all faiths refer to God as “Allah” is not sitting well with the Catholic community.
Tiny Muskens, an outgoing bishop who is retiring in a few weeks from the southern diocese of Breda, said God doesn’t care what he is called.
“Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn’t we all say that from now on we will name God Allah? ... What does God care what we call him? It is our problem,” Muskens told Dutch television.
What?!?! Can this Muskens guy be serious?
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based Islamic civil liberties and advocacy group, backs the idea as a way to help interfaith understanding.
“It reinforces the fact that Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God,” Hooper told FOXNews.com. “I don’t think the name is as important as the belief in God and following God’s moral principles. I think that’s true for all faiths.”
Of course some Muslim guy is going to get behind this idea; it blinds others to who they are. They want non-Muslims to think that everything is the same. It would make their religion easier for others to accept as true. But my God isn’t the god that the Muslims pray to. If that were the case, then why wouldn’t Muslims call their god Yahweh or Jesus Christ…? Or the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost…? But the whole ‘there is no god but Allah’ thing doesn’t really match up with the Trinity.
Crazy stuff like this is what happens when post modernists and such fail to see the importance of language and communication. Words mean something.
“I think it will open up doors,” said Janaan Hashim, a spokeswoman for the group representing more than 400,000 Muslim Americans in the Chicago area. “Language is a man-made limitation. I think what God cares about is how we fulfill our purpose in life.”
But when my God says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” then I do think that He would care if I started calling upon the name of Allah.
