RE: [Quranic Reflection]: moon absorbed by the sun in the Quran: far future.
December 11, 2020 at 3:15 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2020 at 3:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that you're missing the point. I'm not vouching for it's historic accuracy, I'm noting that it was a proposed solution to a seeming problem. This is a recurring theme for textual religions. You're positioning for some doomed argument over the articles of your faith..but, as ever, all that concerns me is the actual history of the actual book that you both believe..generally..to be magic.
It took a few centuries for it to come together as we know it now, with all of the usual slapstick arguments and stepping on rakes along the way - and that's entirely understandable. Eventually, they get their shit together and disseminated the now-standard and produced foundational text of their government everywhere they took their government - just as you'll find alot of us copy in us gov offices. It's not really sensible to talk about magic book as a great work of literature without acknowledging it's actual history - wholly aside from what muslims generally believe. Anyone can babble about a god. The work of turning that into a comprehensive and singular authority which dictates culture and becomes a focal point of global history....that's the lift.
It took a few centuries for it to come together as we know it now, with all of the usual slapstick arguments and stepping on rakes along the way - and that's entirely understandable. Eventually, they get their shit together and disseminated the now-standard and produced foundational text of their government everywhere they took their government - just as you'll find alot of us copy in us gov offices. It's not really sensible to talk about magic book as a great work of literature without acknowledging it's actual history - wholly aside from what muslims generally believe. Anyone can babble about a god. The work of turning that into a comprehensive and singular authority which dictates culture and becomes a focal point of global history....that's the lift.
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