(August 10, 2021 at 3:54 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: But so far, all I can see is that you don't acknowledge the simple fact that holy books do contain correct stuff. In the case of the Qur'an, I am prepared to say it contains correct+possibly unfalsifiable stuff, is it some trick of the prophet to make sure he will always be right? Probably not, unfalsifiable doesn't imply false, after all.
I must say, I've seen plenty of false stuff in the Qur'an, and I'll let Muslims talk about them
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"