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Originally Posted by Danth
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It's hard to compare the two holy books. The Koran is portrayed as the literal word of God, written down by a single individual--a single, perfect, cohesive narrative. You're not really even supposed to translate it. By contrast the various books which compose the Bible were written by many different people over the span of centuries. Even if you limit yourself strictly to the New Testament you're looking at multiple authors, who didn't always agree on everything, with the most prolific being the self-described apostle Paul. He was something of an angry man who made use of the then-small Christian movement for his own political ends after Jesus' death (they never met). Given his dominance of the New Testament and his influence on the early church, the Christian faith is really more of a Paulsian faith, but that doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Simply put, if you argue with the Bible, you're simply arguing with Paul's or Luke's opinions and interpretations. If you argue with the Koran you're arguing against the (purported) direct word of God himself. The constant re-interpretations and infighting of the christian churches were one of the very issues Muhammed sought to resolve.
Danth
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You are really misguided here.
First of all, there are plenty of muslims that know the koran is not the literal word of god, just like there are many christians that know the bible is not the literal word of god.
But!.. Just like extremist muslims, there are a bunch of extremist christians that think the bible is the literal word of god.
Im sure that if the christians were from hell on earth area of the globe where they have been at war with people for melinia and are being bombed into the stone age by nearly every developed nation... they would be cutting off peoples heads too.
yall fuckn need to stop pretending that a bunch of fucking fat ass disgruntled nerds that play everquest for free arnt the first people that we should cull from society.