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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Bishop proposes we call God Allah

A Dutch Roman Catholic Bishop has proposed that we call God Allah in order to ease tensions between the West and Muslims. His suggestion has resulted in public outcry against it.

2 comments:

Frogger said...

I don't really have a problem with it. As far as I'm concerned, its the same thing as calling God, Dieu if I were in France. Unfortunately, its a bigger political issue. I would really like to believe however that God and Allah are the same thing. Do you?

Anonymous said...

No, I think we need to be careful about conceding that we will all use Muslim terms to refer to God in these times. My son died in Iraq. Christians are persecuted there. It's real, not a semantic game.