When I read the following headline, I thought it was a joke, but alas, it's true.
From the AP:
Dutch Bishop: Call God ‘Allah’ to Ease Relations
AMSTERDAM - A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding, stoking an already heated debate on religious tolerance in a country with one million Muslims.
Click the link to go to the rest of the story.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20279326/
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This is getting pretty absurd. The post-Christian West in Europe is withering and rotting away. Even those who aren't ashamed to consider themselves as "Christian" (an ever shrinking number) have fallen prey to a sickening relativism whereby they become incapacitated to stand up for their culture. Muslims immigrants have taken note. It is comforting to note that public reaction there was overwhelming opposed to such an idea.
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