Allah Vs. God

An important post from the Vlad Tepes Blog:

Atheists typically state that no supernatural entities exist or at least that no gods do. That Thor, Allah, Jehovah and Amon Ra are all equally non-existent, and therefore, all equally irrelevant. 

For the sake of argument lets say they are right on their first point. All gods are equally nonexistent. 

The same thing is true of all superheroes however. (no offense meant to the devout Marvel believers, please don’t blow up my clubhouse for this one) But even fictional superheroes have wildly differing attributes. 

Batman, for example, had no supernatural powers. His abilities were derived from careful planning, extreme training and leading edge technology and the clever application of that technology. 

Superman on the other hand has so many native abilities that there was nothing he couldn’t do, (making writing plots for that character a lot more challenging I bet.) It would be unthinkable to a Batman fan if all of a sudden he could just fly on his own power out of a situation and go into space and solve the problem by going faster than light and backwards in time. The Batman fan would get carpal tunnel syndrome writing in to whatever authority governs the rules for superheroes in movies and comic books. 

Muslims know this at some level. In Malaysia there are laws which forbid Christians from referring to their god as ‘Allah’. (It boggles the mind why Christians would want to refer to their deity, one who’s attributes are a clean 180 degrees away from the Islamic Casus Belli they call Allah, but for some reason some of them do.) 

Allah, we are told, instructs muslims to attack, kill, enslave, rape, and hate non believers on pretty much every page of the Koran. The Christian bible, while it has some anecdotes and parables about horror committed by people, typically explains how and why to be cooperative with other people for the benefit of all. These attributes are fundamentally different and have led to fundamentally different results. 

The fact of the existence of the entities is utterly irrelevant.  

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.