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To: The_Reader_David
Evidently he was meant to die in a road accident.

That sounds rather like the fatalistic muslim creed. Insha'Allah!

Personally, I reject such a mindset. (I might have missed a sarcastic undertone in your post, though.)

13 posted on 09/03/2011 11:36:44 AM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: Moltke
Actually, I once met an Orthodox Christian woman of Arab ancestry who was named "Insha'allah", there was some story behind it. I think her mother had been barren for many years before she was born.

"As God wills," is a perfectly reasonable Christian sentiment: Our Lord bade us pray "Thy will be done." "Insha'allah" comes out rather different when the God whose will is being done is the One Who gave His Only-Begotten Son, the Divine Logos, Who is love, transcending the distinction between transcendence and immanence in the Incarnation to unite our nature to His, rather than the capricious oriental tyrant, imprisoned in his own transcendence so that he cannot reveal himself, only his arbitrary will, that the Mohammedans imagine.

And, yes, Arabic speaking Christians call the All-Holy Trinity "Allah", when speaking Arabic. They do not, however, engage in the Mohammedan conceit of fancying that the Arabic word for God (allah, formed by eliding the definite article al with the generic word for (a) god, ilah, to indicate the uniquely existing God in the same way the definite article 'o applied to the Greek theos, indicates the uniquely existing God) is God's proper name, so they call Him "God" when speaking English, "Gott" when speaking German and so forth.

15 posted on 09/03/2011 11:56:58 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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