(June 5, 2018 at 8:52 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Whether we go to great lengths or not, you would interpret like extremist way and say that is the honest way to see if it if you knew it was from God.
Again, tells me more about you and them, then the book.
If you approach the Quran like any other book, with no partiality to faith or divinity, you find it easy to appreciate the good, criticize the bad, and move on.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
