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I read the whole quran... and my opinion is
#1
I read the whole quran... and my opinion is
It was shit.

The bible was better. What do you think?

Also, why is blowing on knots bad?

Quran 113:4
And from the evil of the blowers in knots
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RE: I read the whole quran... and my opinion is
(May 24, 2014 at 7:43 am)Squall Wrote: The bible was better. What do you think?

I got bored of it repeating itself. Would read the same thing for the 3rd time within 2 pages but each time only slightly different wording.
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#3
RE: I read the whole quran... and my opinion is
It was believed that witches would blow on knots to affect the weather, IIRC.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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#4
RE: I read the whole quran... and my opinion is
The quran was more tedious than the bible. I just couldn't finish it. Not to say that the bible is lacking in stretches of tedium.

According to the Skeptic's Annotated Bible, the bible contains more evil passages (e.g. God ordering genocides) but then it is also much longer.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people — House
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#5
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For me it was a wast of time, and left me feeling sad for anyone who could love such a book, and even die for such a book, it had no feeling of love.
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#6
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If you didn't read it in Arabic, it doesn't count.
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#7
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They're both shit.
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#8
RE: I read the whole quran... and my opinion is
The Bible has better stories and it presents two sides of every issue.

The Koran has a few good passages. Some versions are easier to read than others.

The Bible is racist while the Koran isn't. It seems that some people don't like the Koran because of the violent parts but the Bible contains a lot more.

The Koran is short on themes of love and forgiveness. But it doesn't have all of the rules that the Bible has. The ones it does have can be summarized in just a few points.

Despite their flaws they are both better than the Book of Mormon.
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RE: I read the whole quran... and my opinion is
(May 24, 2014 at 5:45 pm)rasetsu Wrote: If you didn't read it in Arabic, it doesn't count.

I always hear this from the die hard muslims who insist that only the correct interpretation can be had if the person reads it in Arabic.

Just further evidence of this god being inept at communicating his message if it can only be understood in one language IMO.
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RE: I read the whole quran... and my opinion is
Quote: Puin, the great scholar of Islam (cited Warraq, 2002, pp. 112, 121) commented,

“My idea is that the Qur’an is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many of them may even be a hundred years older than Islam itself. The Qur’an claims for itself that it is ‘mubeen’, or clear. But [contrary to popular belief] if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or so simply does not make sense … the fact is that a fifth of the Qur’anic text is just incomprehensible. If the Qur’an is not comprehensible, if it cannot even be understood in Arabic, then it’s not translatable into any language. That is why Muslims are afraid. Since the Qur’an claims repeatedly to be clear but is not — there is an obvious and serious contradiction. Something else must be going on”.


Robert Spencer reads it in Syriac and it's a clot more coherent.
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