Is calling God Allah wrong for Christians?
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Not in the Arab world because in Arabic, the word allah means god and many Christian Arabs use the word to refer to God.
Now for the rest of the world, the word allah means nothing so calling God Allah makes little or no sense.
And if someone is going to argue that Christians deciding to change from God to Allah would somehow lesson tensions with Muslims, then one has to point to the fact that Christians in these Arabs countries are not teated well. Look at our great friends Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Look at Iraq where the Christians that have lived there are being driven out or Gaza which has Christians flooding out because of Islamic threats on their life. All these Christians call God Allah because they are Arabs or speak Arabic. They are also second class citizens who are brutally treated and under constant threat of attack.
For the west to start using a meaningless word to them is absurd. And for anyone to suggest it, it shows how uttlerly out of touch they are.
Labels: Christianity, Current Events
posted by Gary @ 10:28 AM
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I think it's going to irritate the Muslims even more, because it's essentially saying, "See. We're just the same as you. Please stop blowing us up."
Every good Muslim knows we're not just the same as them.
It's been my experience that they would respect us more for actually behaving as Christians. I had a chance to work side by side with a Palestinian and an Iraqi on the night shift at a newspaper in Columbia, MO in the early 1990's. We had fabulous conversations and found much upon which to agree. I received a Quran in English and gave a New Testament in Arabic in return. But we never pretended we believed the same things, and they wouldn't have respected me if I had pretended that.
B
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