I am personally very critical of the idea that Allah should be used as a generic for God. It’s like saying we should call Obama the King because that is the word for head of state in English. Well, maybe, but it’s got very different connotations, enough that a new word is needed for president.

Likewise, the God of the Bible is quite different from Allah, and Allah came from more sources than the bible–it was originally the name of the Arabic mood god.

But I wouldn’t argue with middle eastern Christians about it, who may see things different from me and are likely more knowledgeable about it. Of course, the example in question is a form of the muslims exerting dominance and attempted to curtail Christian evangelism.

Well it was the 70’s and all 4 of us experimented with drugs a bit. Only my step sister seemed to like them just a bit too much. She became a crackhead, then a tweeker on Meth,then prison, then back to meth and died this year of a meth overdose, she was 41 homeless, alone way out in the desert living in a tent. I got the call from the Los angeles coroners office. I guess she had my number with her at the time. WE all tried to help her, rehab 3 times, let her live with myself and my family, but she was always on meth, so I had to kick her out. Too bad, she was a nice person when she wasn’t on drugs.

I often wonder if she had been traeted the same as the rest of us if she would have turned out different. I can’t help but wonder if the coddling and spoiling her at a young age into her teens didn’t ruin her for life.

So I say spankings are a good thing, beatings are a bad thing, and slapping or punching faces is also a bad thing, although possibly needed at times. I know I had a big mouth as a teen. Dad shut me up with a quickness on more than one occasion.

My 2 natural sisters are fine, well adjusted adults, got spanked, the one who didn’t get spanked is dead.

I learned at 15 I could take a punch from a full grown man. It gave me confidence later in life, especially in dealing with assholes in the Army. I was not afraid to fight for what i belived in, and took many punches but was never knocked out.

To both: I didn’t mean to sound snippy. My social skills suck.

Sorry for writing very long lectures if they made you feel on the defensive. I was testing out these essays on a little drive before I tossed them onto my own blog. Thanks for the compliment on my argument, as well.

But more tornadic cells training that way. Arklatex is in for an exciting evening.

Closer to home:

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
453 PM CDT THU OCT 29 2009

TXC339-292215-
/O.CON.KHGX.TO.W.0042.000000T0000Z-091029T2215Z/
MONTGOMERY TX-
453 PM CDT THU OCT 29 2009

…A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY…

AT 448 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKE CONROE DAM…OR 10 MILES WEST OF CONROE…AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF LAKE CONROE.

* LOCATIONS IN THE THE TORNADO WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WILLIS…PANORAMA VILLAGE AND MONTGOMERY

I found it interesting that Muslims are controlling what Christians use in their Bibles, that there is fear that using Allah would cause violence, and that the Muslims admit that Allah is not the same as the Christian G-d.

When non-Muslims make this claim they are called Islamophobic.
/cue Keith Ellison & CAIR