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Exactly. And while the Bible has a huge range of tone and message, having been compiled from a bunch of books written over a couple of thousand years by hundred
by hugh3 16y ago
Exactly. And while the Bible has a huge range of tone and message, having been compiled from a bunch of books written over a couple of thousand years by hundreds of authors, the Koran was all written by one dude over the space of a few years, so it's a bit more consistent from page to page.
It would be interesting to imagine that you're a Martian given copies of these two religious books for the first time divorced from any historical context and asked to determine which one has the nicer message. The Bible does have a bunch of nasty stuff towards the beginning, but turns into a feel-good hippie tract about love being nice towards the end. The Koran, on the other hand, seems to have an awful lot more about being a dick to the unbeliever. Still, I don't claim to have read either all the way through.
- oiuygtfrtghyju 16y ago>but turns into a feel-good hippie tract about love being nice towards the end Only in the Sequel, and sequels are never as good as the original (except the Godfather). Nice to know that their God speaks C16 English as well.
- desigooner 16y agoguess it all lies in the interpretation and in the intentions of the early compilers / facilitators of such books and men in position of power ... Correct me if I'm wrong but Christianity, Islam and even Buddhism rapidly propagated in early ages through conversions and there was a conscious effort for the same in terms of the growth of religion. Maybe such text was merely an aid in helping with the growth of religion in order to establish a certain superiority for followers of one religion over another.