General argument for Islam.

[jesus_wept]

I'm aware of many of the excuses Muslims make for why their all powerful god had to bow down to the whims and barbarity of slave owners and allow slavery to continue for so long in Muslim societies.

Don't you find it a bit odd that the quran says (according to you, I didn't get this impression when I read it years ago) for humanity to one day free all slaves but it took over 1400 years for some Muslims to get the message, with others still apparently in need of the memo today, years after non Muslims had abolished slavery without any help from the quran or Allah?

If this is an example of the "wisdom" that can be found in the quran you can keep it, we're all better off without it.

And I do hope you'll forgive my ignoring your assertion that you have the correct translation of the verse about beating your wife, and the correct hadith, when all these translations disagree with you.

http://quran.com/4/34

Thanks for giving us all some good examples of the kind of ad hoc excuses for embarrassing verses I was talking about though. It's much appreciated.