"Catholic churches in the Netherlands should use the name Allah for God to ease tensions between Muslims and Christians, says a Dutch bishop."
The problem, of course, is that we are not calling upon the same God. It's short,so give it a read.
I do agree with the bishop, that God is above the names we try to give Him. However, we should not decide what to call Him based on an effort at appeasement of those who have a tendency toward violence. Every believer should call upon the name of the Lord their God in the culture of their own. In my middle class American lifestyle, it's God, or Abba, thankyouverymuch.
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