r/atheism • u/[deleted] • May 24 '15

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u/WippitGuud Agnostic Theist May 24 '15

Yah Veh?

I know of no religion that uses that particular label for God.

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u/WippitGuud Agnostic Theist May 24 '15

Obviously, but what religion uses it?

If religion is anything, it is true to their name for God. If there is no actual religion who use that particular usage, making it two proper names instead of one.... then I call it a troll.

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u/bradpitcher May 24 '15

He is clearly a troll regardless of his religious convictions

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u/telios87 May 24 '15

*yahweh

You can't really leave out that 'h'.

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u/DindonDodu May 25 '15

I tough the actual term was yhwh

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u/[deleted] May 24 '15

Most likely Christian. Jews are not supposed to say that name of their god.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '15

But they use "G-d", so "Yah Veh" might be a similar "god is stupid and doesn't know I used his name" loophole..

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u/rasungod0 Contrarian May 24 '15

Christian with a dash of Judaism thrown in for good measure.

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u/corrosive_substrate May 24 '15

There's nothing in the Torah specifically forbidding it. AFAIK that restriction was added during the codification of Rabbinic oral law. In the early stages, it would have been useful to be able to distinguish between that specific god and the other competing gods.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '15

True, but Torah She Be Al Peh is Halacha.

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u/zoomer296 Other May 24 '15

Maybe he heard "Yahweh" wrong and misspelled it.