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So, "Allah is a pagan moon god," how can this be defended?
[I'm restarting this question as YA users Reese, Aaeon, Justin, Nichole, Ellie, Sarah, Paisley, Mackenzie, Noah, Olivia, etc. have been copy/pasting answers here again and again, a sort of proof to the intellectual dishonesty and lack of care pushed around here. Please be serious.]
I read all over Yahoo Answers "Allah is a pagan moon god," and yet this is very much false. Islam is wrong, I'll agree to that, I don't need to believe that "Allah is a pagan moon god," but where is this really coming from? The Star/Crescent symbol of Islam did not come until way later and began more as a sign for the Ottoman Empire. Islam teaches that God is not the Moon rather he created the Moon but not only that, he created everything, so says Islam, so why is the Moon specifically to Allah? Muslims use a Lunar Calender? Did First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon? Don't the Jews also use the Lunar Calendar for Passover? By the way, there was an Egyptian Moon God/dess named Iah, does that automatically mean YHWH is an Egyptian Moon God too? No! So why is Allah (translated "The God") so associated with the Moon, are some Christians' faith against Islam dependent on that belief? Or is it that some Christians really have no other good arguments? Plenty of good points to discuss, but the Moon isn't one of them.
So, "Allah is a pagan moon god," how can this be defended?
4 Answers
- Anonymous6 years ago
WHO IS ALLAH?
Some 3000 years BC, in the Tigris and Euphrates river basin, there was an ancient civilization called Sumer, with its people called Sumerians.
From archaeological findings of cuneiform engravings, there was a pagan idol named Lil. The name was subsequently modified to Enlil as well as Ramman-ilani.
This Ramman idol was transported via trade routes to India to become the Brahman of Vedic literature, subsequently forming the Hindu religion.
The pagan idol remaining in the land of origin became known as Baal of Babylon. By trade route this spread, and this pagan idol became arabicised into the name Al-ilah. Al-ilah also had a consort pagan idol named Al-ilat.
With time, Al-ilah became shortened to Al-lah and then Allah.
The name Allah became known as the generic name for god.
The consort Al-ilat became known as Al-lat. Al-lat is one of the pagan idols found in the Ka’bah shrine in Mecca referred to in the Satanic verses of Sura 53 of the Qur’an.
Al-ilah was the Babylonian moon god whose symbol was the crescent moon.
Hence Islam uses the crescent moon as it's symbol. The crescent moon adorns every place where Allah is worshipped.
Hence the name Allah is not the same name used by Abraham for God which should be El. Even the name of Abraham’s son from Hagar is named after El as Ishma-el. Ishmael is purportedly the original father of the Arabs.
- SolusLutrinaeLv 76 years ago
Only uneducated apologists (is there any other kind?) make this argument. Allah derives from the same root as El and Elohim, the words translated as "God" and "Lord" in the Bible. Allah is just the Arabic translation. Of course, it doesn't much matter to Jews, Christians or Muslims that El (lord of the gods, equivalent to Zeus)and Elohim (plaural, originally a collective noun for all the gods - literally sons of El) are taken from Canaanite polytheism, as is Yahweh (god of war, this is why he and his followers are so bloody and murderous), Asheara (goddess of fertility and consort/wife to Yahweh) and Baal (god of storms). It is amazing how believers can claim to care so much about their religion, but never bother to REALLY study it.
- Anonymous6 years ago
Allah is the Muslim name for the One God. Muslims don't believe in multiple gods and goddesses.
- ?Lv 76 years ago
You know, if Allah's worship places had mustaches on top, everyone would naturally assume that Allah is a mustache god. See how that works?
If Muslims don't think their god is a moon god, perhaps they should change the symbol...