(June 18, 2014 at 10:54 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: This reminds me of Christians that twist themselves into painfully contorted logic knots when someone points out the explicit endorsement of slavery in the bible. Again, isn't it possible (and likely) that the people who wrote the Koran (since it isn't divinely inspired) are simply WRONG? Holding a book up as a useful philosophical guide to follow (which is what I think you're doing since you disregard God claims) doesn't mean that you have to agree with every single point, nor does it mean you have to twist anything you find disagreeable into something nice and simpatico.
Instead of taking the mantle of "The guy who interprets the Koran correctly while these other millions of people have it wrong", drop the arrogation of accuracy and just be open to the idea that a millennia and a half ago some dudes got some shit wrong.
No, it is precisely because they cherry pick that they cannot see that that book does not apply today, and allows them to ignore that they got some shit wrong. It was a social norm to be tribal and sexist back then, but now it it goes way beyond a isolated time in antiquity wen the weapons were mere arrows.
The ones taking their books word for word without watering it down are the ones getting it right(meaning being god's gang minion). That is what is wrong about it, but the ones who water it down give these sickos cover to continue doing what is wrong.
So unless you take your god goggles off and read it word for word without glossing it over you will not see how dangerous the book really is.
