Re: Religian (was:Iraq

SkippyPB <swiegand@nospam.neo.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Yahweh is the Hebrew word for God.
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Actually, it isn't.  There are no vowels in that script.  YHWH is the
"word"; it stood for the unpronounceable name of God.  Remember, knowing
someone's real name was (and quite often still is) held to give one power
over the person: and how could any mortal have pwoer over God?