The question that makes fundies hostile

[Whateverist]

...to whom we are grateful. (Grammar)

Every forum needs a pompous ass with good grammar.

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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 ..

And that is where you went wrong.

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I didn't know this. Could you elaborate more on Allah's origins?

You didn't know it because it's dead wrong. Allah is just another name for the same Abrahamic god that Christians worship; it's a different interpretation, but it's the same god. GC is just fabricating bullshit, here. Surprise, surprise.

Are you sure, Esqy? I always thought the gods of all religions had antecedents from earlier cultures. Isn't Christ supposed to be a doppelganger for Osiris and a corn god. The virgin birth isn't a new story either. An individual saving the rest of the population by his/her sacrifice has been going on since the first maiden was tossed in the volcano. (Apparently many of them too made their sacrifice willingly in order to better please the resident gods.)