(September 9, 2016 at 5:28 pm)ScienceAf Wrote:(September 9, 2016 at 4:30 pm)RobertE Wrote: The Qur'an is clearly based on the Old Testament, and the Hadiths are simply the equivalent of the New Testament. That is the way I see it anyway. Made up bollocks to just persuade sheep to join.
The Qur'an acknowledges that those bibles are bullshit and the original bible is the ingel, no old or new testament.
Just Ingel.
Injil. Either way, it is still bullshit. Just one pleb who spoke to a bunch of illiterate people and they took his word for it. Many people in the United States are intelligent, but it doesn't stop them believing in the Intelligent Design, or the God of the gaps. So, imagine what it would have been like in and around 600AD.
Quote:What it means to be literate is not an absolute standard even now. This was even more true in the Middle Ages when the majority of the population couldn’t read at all, a certain percentage could read and not write, and the only way to be ‘literate’ at the time was if a person could read Latin. Literacy in other languages didn’t count.
This was medieval England at the time where you were considered literate if you could read latin. Again, all it takes is one person who is intelligent enough to lead a bunch of sheep.
