To: antiRepublicrat
"First of all, Allah has no gender."
Allah is a third person singular noun. There was a well known female pagan deity worshipped by the early Arabs named 'Allat', which obviously is a third person feminine noun.
"Second, both Allah and Eloah are titles of the one great deity, not names."
Eloah was rarely used in Hebrew, if that is what you are implying. The point about Allah is that this word was used by the early Arabs as a name for a pagan god -- one among many.
To: JohnSmithee
Allah is a third person singular noun. There was a well known female pagan deity worshipped by the early Arabs named 'Allat', which obviously is a third person feminine noun. If it is true, what does that say about Islam? Does Judaism's (and therefore Christianity's) genesis from a polytheistic nomadic desert tribe corrupt it? Do many of Christianity's roots in local Mediterranean pagan religions corrupt it?
Both of your religions have shed more primitive forms, moving to the modern monotheistic construction.
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