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  • I find it hilarious when I say that on various forums and often it’s the xtians that usually object that they worship Allah.

    Usually I do this in the context of explaining how using the term “God” as a stand-in for their god (meaning: Jehovah/Allah/Yahweh) is so very provincial and presumptuous.

    Sometimes I’ve had a few Jews try to claim that Jehovah/Allah/Yahweh are not the same entity, and also that using the full name of their god is something I should not do because it’s “offensive”. I realize that xtianity and Islam are both retcons that both claim their legitimacy based on the OT, but for some reason, pointing this obvious fact out is something some people pretend to be offended by. In any case, I point out these rules are for the adherents of book clubs, not for others who have not opted into these book clubs. Being “offended” by someone using the full name of a fictional entity is therefore a choice.

    I, for one, refuse to play along with their game of assuming the use of [g|G]od automatically means the Abrahamic one…



  • Yeah, when today’s xtians act like the founders left their little book club out of the Constitution as some kind of “oversight” (if they even know or admit that fact at all) and that they all just assumed everyone was going to be some (Protestant) xtian as some kind of requirement to be a full citizen, they are skipping over quite a bit of context.

    Of course the Inquisition was still a thing and certainly the horrible things xtians do to not only “unbelievers”, but to “heretics” (meaning xtians they disagree with over some bit of doctrine), was something the founders would have been keenly aware of.