The bhagavad gita was written well before the quran, aside from the violence, it's actually quite beautifully written, the artwork that goes along with it is fantastic. The same can be said for the Egyptian book of the dead, from a literary standpoint. Human beings are quite impressive in regards to their art.
Your proposal that simply because the authorship is nice that the author must be divinely inspired simply isn't true do to the magnitude of ancient literature that we have found that is impressive for the time it was written. Your argument is special pleading, and it simply isn't true. If Muhammad was deaf, dumb, and mentally handicapped, then actually wrote the book, that would be impressive. Some guy writing something well in the 7th century or later isn't impressive because by that point, they would have had an immense amount of other religious material to use for inspiration.
You should read more about other cultures Zakir. The Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians had a wealth of spectacular art and literature.
Your proposal that simply because the authorship is nice that the author must be divinely inspired simply isn't true do to the magnitude of ancient literature that we have found that is impressive for the time it was written. Your argument is special pleading, and it simply isn't true. If Muhammad was deaf, dumb, and mentally handicapped, then actually wrote the book, that would be impressive. Some guy writing something well in the 7th century or later isn't impressive because by that point, they would have had an immense amount of other religious material to use for inspiration.
You should read more about other cultures Zakir. The Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians had a wealth of spectacular art and literature.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
