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2007-08-27 Olde Tyme Religion

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-27 11:37|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Nice unibrow.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-08-27 12:25|| 2007-08-27 12:25|| Front Page Top

#2 JMo looks stoned...

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-27 12:40|| 2007-08-27 12:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Whenever my Flemish wife and I are back in Antwerp, we attend RC church with my in-laws. You do not see many young faces at mass. You do attend a number of first communions and confirmations in the summer for the nephews and nieces but at Sunday church it is different. And this is the most conservative, Christian part of old Europe. I wonder what it is like in Poland?

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-08-27 12:42|| 2007-08-27 12:42|| Front Page Top

#4 the 'al' in allah is the definite article.

One theory about the 'lah' in allah, is that about 12 centuries before Mohammud, this was 'yah' (a word used often in the psalms as a short name for what is translated in the KJBible as "Lord"). About the 2nd century B.C., the script of the 'y' and the 'l' were fairly similar and there was a transposition.

Not everybody buys this theory, partly because the vocalization of the 'y' and the 'l' require much different tongue positions (if I had an editor this would be out because it sounds gross - yuck).

Posted by mhw 2007-08-27 15:22|| 2007-08-27 15:22|| Front Page Top

#5 he wants Christians to start calling God Allah because he believes such a gesture would promote rapprochement between Christianity and Islam

Which demonstrates just how little appreciation this blithering idiot has for the ways of Islam.

Inquiring minds want to know: If the bishop really thinks the names God and Allah are interchangeable, why doesnt he ask Muslims to start calling Allah Yahweh, the biblical name for God? But he wont, because he knows they wont.

Not only will they not, they would also kill him and anyone else who suggested something so foolish.

thousands of inscriptions which prove beyond any doubt that the dominant religion of Arabia during Mohammeds day was the cult of the moon-god.

So, they really are all a bunch of lunatics. Who knew?

The Koran also portrays Allah as a vindictive deity who hates sinners and desires to afflict them. But the Bible says God is love.

This shall remain Christianitys central and most redeeming feature. Were hatred paramount to proper religious worship it is just as likely that mankind would be extinct today. Only something as gentle, enduring and dignifying as love could possibly sustain civilization. Islams doctrinal core of hatred and intolerance is what will guarantee its erasure from this earth. Reason cannot abide such an assault upon the human condition without failing to act against it. All that remains uncertain is how long it will take for this to happen.

Its not that Europeans havent been forewarned. Its that they couldnt care less.

In part this is becauseat days endEurope can and most likely will revert to its favored solution for all such unpleasantness such that once again the charnelhouse doors will swing wide to admit its forelorn victims.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-27 18:05|| 2007-08-27 18:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Not everybody buys this theory, partly because the vocalization of the 'y' and the 'l' require much different tongue positions

mhw, think of the Spanish versus the Hispano-American pronunciation of the ll: l-y vs y. this is a perfect example of the morphing from y to l, as the various Hispanic countries have mostly retained the pronunciation used at the time they were cut off from their mother country (and grammar -- I had a Mexican girlfriend who used to mock the simplified grammatical forms used by her Spanish acquaintances, just as my Taiwanese friends mock the simplified writing and grammar used on the Mainland nowadays).

Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-27 18:28|| 2007-08-27 18:28|| Front Page Top

#7 archaeology provides irrefutable evidence that Allah, far from being the biblical God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, was actually the pre-Islamic pagan moon-god. Indeed, it is an established archaeological fact that worship of the moon-god was the main religion of the ancient Middle East

Anyone with any sense has been saying this for years. But the inevitable problem is, since when did scientific proof ever change the mind of ignorant fanatics?

No, rather than try to "prove" the basis of their faith to be ridiculous, it's much more effective to FIGHT it. Murderous fanatics understand FORCE, and little else.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-08-27 18:46|| 2007-08-27 18:46|| Front Page Top

#8 What mcsegeek1 said.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-27 21:37|| 2007-08-27 21:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Allah is a fiction, concocted by Muhammed while he was at a cave retreat in 610 AD. Context: he had married an older woman for her money, and lost interest in her when she turned 55, and he suffered man-toy taunts. After claiming "prophet" status he received: 13 wives, and a concocted (koran 4:84) power to beat them at will; 20% cut of all plunder booty; free accomodation; power to make laws in order to exhonerate all his many crimes; power to force followers to divorce wives so he could marry them, and the privilege of marrying a 6 year old girl; right to invade any country and abolish their national cultures; absolute power over life and death, and corporal integrity (viz retention of limbs); ersatz right to exclude non Moslems from Mecca/Medina; ersatz right to control human conscience, and impose Arab perversities against any captive; ersatz right to murder prisoners of war; ersatz right to bequeath unindicted co-conspirators like CAIR and ISNA on Americans; etc.

Posted by McZoid 2007-08-27 22:14|| 2007-08-27 22:14|| Front Page Top

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