tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post1506369753667890543..comments2023-09-11T06:15:20.724-05:00Comments on Chick Dissections: Allah isn't God in ArabicJr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03190892884594211736noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-6928038735124676292016-08-07T02:31:19.869-05:002016-08-07T02:31:19.869-05:00The crescent moon symbol has been associated with ...The crescent moon symbol has been associated with Christianity and plenty of other folks. It wasn't even in ubiquitous use in Islam. Chick is an incredibly lazy scholar and just makes shit up like talking about a "trinity" of Egyptian gods that weren't a trinity.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14232867049414126529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-65728362859774746002011-09-24T18:02:50.154-05:002011-09-24T18:02:50.154-05:00I think the social service should arrest that gran...I think the social service should arrest that grandpa for using his girl as a lure for his cult. That's minors corruption.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-12389626219310020262011-01-27T16:48:00.033-06:002011-01-27T16:48:00.033-06:00As has been mentioned above, the 'Allah used t...As has been mentioned above, the 'Allah used to be called the Moon God' has some truth to it. It's an oversimplification, however.<br /><br />Also, although Islam is an Abrahamic religion, Muslims do *not* worship the same God as Christians or Jews. The word 'Allah' may translate to 'God,' but the nature of the God that each religion worships is very different. Anyone from any of the Abrahamic religions will tell you the same thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-56302643948017676312010-12-06T13:37:36.548-06:002010-12-06T13:37:36.548-06:00Chick. It's pretty common for Chick to lie abo...Chick. It's pretty common for <i>Chick</i> to lie about and slander other religions. <br />Also, I think you mean omniscient, not omnipotent. Which would only really count if God had suggested the bet in the first place. The real reason why we shouldn't be surprised that God won the bet is that If He'd lost, He would hardly have imparted that story to his prophets, and even if He had, the Church would probably have removed that passage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-57922126365151055392010-09-21T20:50:07.435-05:002010-09-21T20:50:07.435-05:00Pretty typical of Christians to lie about and slan...Pretty typical of Christians to lie about and slander other religions. Chick did the same thing to Buddhism in a tract called "The Tycoon", which portrays Buddhist monks as angry, violent mystics who worship idols of Buddha, and believe that Buddha died for their sins.<br /><br /><br />B.R.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-60824091276643933932010-06-01T06:58:33.391-05:002010-06-01T06:58:33.391-05:00origin of the crescent moon for islam http://isla...origin of the crescent moon for islam http://islam.about.com/od/history/a/crescent_moon.htm turns out muslims don't like that as their symbol, preferring none!Jitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09552739649692011051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-55194104794312112612010-01-17T16:55:36.424-06:002010-01-17T16:55:36.424-06:00"But that's where the story ends, Job nev..."But that's where the story ends, Job never gets his children or wife or property or friends back. God is love!"<br /><br />Actually I think God did reward Job by giving him his wealth back as well as blessing him with even more children, but it doesn't change the fact that Job had just had his life screwed with because of a bet.<br /><br />As you stated, the owning of slaves, taking of multiple wives, and having a child bride were all things that were seen as common at that time. Different values. In fact, the nine year old bride was seen as a very good wife for him, since her youth ensured that she was a virgin and thus pure when they were wed.ZeldaQueennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-66828871638623782642007-09-21T18:23:00.000-05:002007-09-21T18:23:00.000-05:00The notion of Mohammad as a pedophile grates, the ...The notion of Mohammad as a pedophile grates, the normal BS aside.<BR/><BR/>Even in societies that practice young marriage, in most cases, sex is postponed until the girl has undergone first menses, which is key to making her a woman in a lot of societies. In the way back machine, this is likely the 11-14 range. Even then, there were cultures that further postponed active babymaking until the girl was in her later teens, as they noticed that women survived childbirth better if they had children then (ie Sparta).<BR/><BR/>I don't know the exact ways of the ancient Muslims, but a young marriage like that, to an important figure like Mohammad, speaks to me of a political marriage that wasn't going to be consummated until the girl was more mature.<BR/><BR/>It's pretty much a myth that ancient men liked bedding nine year-olds.Lyssahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12582942052449965549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-17928823066708927382007-08-29T00:27:00.000-05:002007-08-29T00:27:00.000-05:00Well, Jr., I guess one good turn deserves another....Well, Jr., I guess one good turn deserves another. In this case, I "turned" your stomach with my last one, and you've returned the favor :) This one went down like a serrated aspirin.<BR/><BR/>I gotta know...you didn't touch on it, but I kept thinking, why does Chick paint Muslims as a bunch of evil psychopaths out to convert everyone? It was like Little Susy stumbled onto some secret ritual like in an Indiana Jones movie or something. Does he really think Muslims behave that way??<BR/><BR/>And Susy raced to the rescue!! Such utter, utter bullshit. Muslim people don't care if you convert or not...they just want to be left alone. They're just people, like you, me, and Jack Chick, although most of the Muslims I've met aren't anywhere near as fanatical or as asshole-ish as Chick.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-44717264298502696502007-08-26T17:40:00.000-05:002007-08-26T17:40:00.000-05:00i always get a kick out of that "came upon a virgi...i always get a kick out of that "came upon a virgin" thing. Conception does not work that way. you actually have to come inside the right part of the woman or it doesn't work...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-30541363596593184352007-08-24T11:33:00.000-05:002007-08-24T11:33:00.000-05:00I'm pretty sure Susy doesn't really mind her big r...I'm pretty sure Susy doesn't really mind her big religious guys having many slaves, wives and concubines because her grandfather forgot to mention it during the mission (pardon the pun) briefing.Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03190892884594211736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-75164392428022800372007-08-24T00:26:00.000-05:002007-08-24T00:26:00.000-05:00Ooo... (pardon me for the multi-posting).... If...Ooo... (pardon me for the multi-posting).... If Suzy is so indignant about Mohammed's 16 wives, what about King David's multi-hundred wives <I>and concubines</I>? Or his son Solomon's even more multi-hundred? And Jacob, the founder of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, fathered kids on his wives' slave women. (Which meant they were <I>his</I> slave women, because men owned their wimmin, and hence their wimmin's slaves, back then.) Or heck, even old Isaac himself, father or Jacob-who-became-Israel fathered Ishmael, the supposed progenitor of the Muslim peoples, on <I>his</I> wife's slave woman. So all these Big Deal Guys of the Bible had multiple wives <I>and</I> slaves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-46697870410358022692007-08-24T00:16:00.000-05:002007-08-24T00:16:00.000-05:00In other words, as a people's concept of a god or ...In other words, as a people's concept of a god or gods changed, so did their definition of that god and that god's personality and defining characteristics. It's hardly some evil demonic plot by Satan or anything....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439398234055102828.post-79704906304312423302007-08-24T00:14:00.000-05:002007-08-24T00:14:00.000-05:00Well, if I'm remembering Karen Armstrong's book Hi...Well, if I'm remembering Karen Armstrong's book <I>History of God</I> correctly, Allah as the All-Father God <I>did</I> evolve out of the earlier Moon God (who had a similar name, I'm forgetting it exactly), but that's no biggie because the Hebrew JHWH evolved out of the earlier Canaanite god El (or Elohim as the plural). Or somethign like that. The point is, different culture's beliefs in a unifying All-God gradually evolved out of earlier pantheonistic deities. And from what I'm remembering of that book, in Islam it happened a lot more deliberately, again for cultural reasons. But it's been about a decade since I read that book, and the details are fuzzy.<BR/><BR/>The scary thing about Chick's "facts" in these so-called "educational" tracts is that so many Murricans actually "believe" them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com