The question that makes fundies hostile

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Esq, that doesn't necessarily mean that Allah was always equated with Yahweh. Allah could well have a pre-existing deity that was conflated with Yahweh in order to maintain cultural beliefs, practices and identity whilst adopting a new religion. After all, assimilation has long been one of christianity's greatest tools and I doubt they are the only faith to have used it.

(cue jokes about religious tools)

Granted, but I just thought GC would more willingly sit up and listen to something from his own holy screed. Fact is, there's a lot of crossover between the two religions in their holy books, and the general teachings of Islam accept that Allah either is the god of Abraham, or the two share a common source in the actual creative deity. To characterize Allah as some other god is simply incorrect, both in present and based upon the original writings of Islam's prophet.

Ishmael was living in the area where the moon god was worshiped and this god was eventually called Allah. Allah is in no way Yahweh, I'm going to give you one of your little quips, ask the Jews I bet they will tell you that Allah is a false god, like you said the religion of Yahweh was theirs originally. The Quran was written 200 years after Moses, they copied what they wanted to from the OT to suit their new god.

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GC, were you replying to me about the Yahwey thing or the Muslim thing?

I referred to both, so I'm not sure what you mean.

GC