14 August 2007
Pray to Allah, Dutch bishop suggests
(cwnews.com) A Dutch Catholic bishop has suggested that Christians should refer to God as "Allah" to promote better relations with Muslims. Bishop Martinus "Tiny" Muskens of Breda told the "Network" television...
A Dutch Catholic bishop has suggested that Christians should refer to God as "Allah" to promote better relations with Muslims.
Bishop Martinus "Tiny" Muskens of Breda told the "Network" television show that "God doesn't really care how we address Him."
Pointing out that "Allah" is a term already used by Christians who speak Arabic, Bishop Muskens said that humans are needlessly divided over such terminology. God, the bishop said, is above such "bickering."
The Dutch bishop admitted that his suggestion was not likely to gain widespread acceptance. But he predicted that within a century or two, Dutch Catholics would be addressing prayers to "Allah."
Bishop Muskens has a history of creating occasional controversy within the Church. He has broken with Vatican leadership to endorse the use of condoms as a means of preventing the spread of AIDS, and in 2006 he traveled to Uganda to endorse the work of a group called Stop AIDS Now, which emphasized condom distribution.
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" ... A Dutch Catholic bishop has suggested that Christians should refer to God as "Allah" to promote better relations with Muslims. ..."
all these one-sided futile self-deluding gestures should be summarily stopped until there are equivalent gestures from the Muslim side.
maybe when the Muslims start praying to the Trinity ...
to promote better relations with Christians ...
Posted by: exdemexlib | 15 August 2007
We do not refer to God as an unknown, unfelt "Allah" as the Muslims do, but we refer to God the true God as our Lord Jesus Christ tells us to pray and say Our father who art in heaven......
Nothing can seperate us from that intimate relationship between us and our Creator.....for we see and feel our God through Jesus Christ who is God in the flesh who died for us all and rose on the third day.
Posted by: TruthSeeker | 19 August 2007
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