What's in a name?

I have not posted for some time, but here I am returning to a previous subject. I understand that a Malaysian court yesterday banned Christians from referring to God As Allah. I don't know why the decision was taken but it displays an excellent example of what is wrong about any kind of religious fundamentalism. Can anyone who truly believes in God think that He gives a damn what we call him?

 As is so often the case religion is used as an excuse for tyranny. A lady is imprisoned in Sudan for becoming a Christian.

 Who can genuinely believe that any of us know enough about the mind of God to state categorically not only that the way we chose to worship is the right way but that it is the only way and that all others are not only wrong but inherently evil, or at least criminal! One might have hoped that idea died out with Imperial Rome's persecution of early Christians.

 It is at best prideful to believe thus. And remember pride is a sin! We cannot hope to know the mind of God. Do we seriously think that He is bothered by a name? Names are used to identify one from a crowd. There is only one God. Why would he even need a Name? For the love of God and for his sake we need to all be more tolerant and less open to influence from the power of evil. When we act in the way the Malaysian court has acted we do satans work for him.

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