According to scholars, Allahs questionable reputation comes from some skeletons in the closet. Muslims cant seem to shake some ugly rumors. After all, Allah is the greatest, the one and only god. There is no god but Allah, and there never has been any other god but Allah. Except one thing, Allah has not always been the one and only god of Islam. In pre-Islamic times Allah had brothers and sisters, and at one time Allah was the moon-god.
Here is a scholarly statement for Allah, the pagan god.
"The name Allah or Alla was found in the Epic of Atrahasis engraved on several tablets dating back to around 1700 BC in Babylon, which showed that he was being worshipped as a high deity among other gods who were considered to be his brothers but taking orders from him."
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Here is a scholarly statement based on archeological evidence for Allah the moon god.
"The hard evidence demonstrates that the god Allah was a pagan deity. In fact, he was the Moon-god who was married to the sun goddess and the stars were his daughters. Archaeologists have uncovered temples to the Moon-god throughout the Middle East. From the mountains of Turkey to the banks of the Nile, the most wide-spread religion of the ancient world was the worship of the Moon-god. In the first literate civilization, the Sumerians have left us thousands of clay tablets in which they described their religious beliefs. As demonstrated by Sjoberg and Hall, the ancient Sumerians worshipped a Moon-god who was called many different names. The most popular names were Nanna, Suen and Asimbabbar. His symbol was the crescent moon. Given the amount of artifacts concerning the worship of this Moon-god, it is clear that this was the dominant religion in Sumeria. The cult of the Moon-god was the most popular religion throughout ancient Mesopotamia. The Assyrians, Babylonians, and the Akkadians took the word Suen and transformed it into the word Sin as their favorite name for the Moon-God. As Prof. Potts pointed out, 'Sin is a name essentially Sumerian in origin which had been borrowed by the Semites.'"
ALLAH, the Moon God
Before Islam, Allah was struggling to move up the status hierarchy of pagan gods. Allah was doing well, even becoming top dog in the pantheon of pagan gods. Then along came Muhammad. He gave Allah star status. Allah was no longer just another pagan god, Allah had arrived. Allah now stood high in the sky above all pagan gods. Now we have Muslims declaring Allah to be the God of the Jewish Bible, denying that back then he was just a pagan god. Then, there are those who claim because Allah means God in Arabic it therefore is the Jewish God. To be fair, or objective, shouldn't we acknowledge scholarly sources: Allah was a pagan God, and most famously, Allah was the moon god.
