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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?

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  • Anonymous
    6 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.

  • 6 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.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Allah is the Muslim name for the One God. Muslims don't believe in multiple gods and goddesses.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 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...

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