Posted on 05/26/2015 10:49:40 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
I know all these things very well and have graduate degrees in Christian Theological Studies. Once you convert the 1.2 Billion Muslims who worship Allah, the Moon god of the Nabataeans, and believe that Mohammed is his prophet, then I will support you in your position. For know, I will continue to warn the western world that Allah, the Moon god of the Nabataeans is NOT the God of the Bible. Just like Elijah warned Israel about Baal.
Obviously the Muslim Allah is not the God of the Bible. It’s great that you are warning people of the dangers of Islam and how it is incompatible with Christianity.
There are many Arab Christians who are at risk of dying for their faith in Christ every day. They may not have graduate degrees in Christian Theology, but their faith in Christ is very real. Many, even children, pay the ultimate price for that faith. They use the term Allah for God because that is the word for God in their language. It is in the Arabic Bible.
So what title for God do you suggest these Arab Christians use?
You are wrong. This was a service to commemorate ALL the dead of the Gallipoli campaign: British, Aussies, NZ, French and Turkish. A service for peace and rememberence.
As a Briton, I found the service incredibly moving, and find nothing offensive in paying my respects to all the dead of that campaign. The Turks after all were only soldiers defending their OWN COUNTRY. The service and the commemorations in Turkey and the UK and of course Aus/NZ were all beautifully done. No jingoism, just respect for all the dead and mourning the waste of so many lives.
In fact, the most moving part was the recital of a famous letter from Ataturk, in which he called the Anglo-French-Aus/NZ dead ‘the sons of our country now’, and promised that the Turkish people forever would treat those boys and men as their own fallen sons and tend their graves as lovingly as they would Turkish graves. It was and is still a beautiful letter from Ataturk.
BTW, if you can access BBC iplayer, the Gallipoli service and all the BBC programmes on Gallipoli are still on it. DO watch it.
Yes, but Turkey is now ruled by an Islamist tyrant who isn't fit to wipe Ataturk's ass.
Lovely country with very nice people, if you haven’t been.
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