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To: NYer
"Allah” is the Arabic word for “God” and has been so long before the existence of Islam. Just one more thing the Muslims have stolen from the Christians.

so you say, it was actually the name of their Moongod. I as a Christian will never use allah as a word for GOD. To me it would be the same as saying Zues or athena.

3 posted on 12/27/2007 6:20:23 AM PST by Liberty2007 (I AM AWESOME , The best thing on Talk radio----Michael Savage)
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To: Liberty2007
from etymonline.com:

god O.E. god "supreme being, deity," from P.Gmc. *guthan (cf. Du. god, Ger. Gott, O.N. guð, Goth. guþ), from PIE *ghut- "that which is invoked" (cf. Skt. huta- "invoked," an epithet of Indra), from root *gheu(e)- "to call, invoke." But some trace it to PIE *ghu-to- "poured," from root *gheu- "to pour, pour a libation" (source of Gk. khein "to pour," khoane "funnel" and khymos "juice;" also in the phrase khute gaia "poured earth," referring to a burial mound). "Given the Greek facts, the Germanic form may have referred in the first instance to the spirit immanent in a burial mound" [Watkins]. Cf. also Zeus. Not related to good. Originally neut. in Gmc., the gender shifted to masc. after the coming of Christianity. O.E. god was probably closer in sense to L. numen. A better word to translate deus might have been P.Gmc. *ansuz, but this was only used of the highest deities in the Gmc. religion, and not of foreign gods, and it was never used of the Christian God. It survives in Eng. mainly in the personal names beginning in Os-.

So maybe you should find another word besides "God"? ;)

4 posted on 12/27/2007 6:39:38 AM PST by Claud
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