(December 2, 2013 at 4:52 pm)Zazzy Wrote:(December 2, 2013 at 4:00 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: It's hilarious to me that Islam touts itself as pure, even as to cover their women from head to toe - because Allah (God) doesn't want people to defile themselves with sexual behavior, yet when they get to heaven the first thing they get is a fucking harem of virgins. Oh by the way, after you've fucked each of your 72 virgins once, they are no longer virginsWhat's the deal about virgins vs raisins? Isn't there something weird about the translation there?
http://deconversionmovement.tumblr.com/p...vestigated
Quote:Luxenberg argues that many of the Qur’ans puzzling words and phrases become clear only by reference to Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic that was the literary language of the region at the time the Qur’an was assembled. Through this method, he has come to numerous startling conclusions. Some of his findings have won international notoriety. Most notably, the famous Qur’anic passages promising virgins in Paradise to Islamic martyrs do not, in his reading, actually refer to virgins; the word usually translated as “virgins” is more accurately rendered as “raisins” or “grapes,” he argues.
Of course, muslim fanatics have a diarrhea hemorrhage when confronted by this.