VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Alun|DATE|1381311444|CONTENT|@Dinah, let me reassure you that you have missed nothing by not reading the q&#039;uran. I have read at least sections, if not all, of the sacred texts of most of the major religions: Buddhist sutras, the mahabharata and bhagavad gita, much of the bible, the divine principle (mooneys), etc. I had a go at the q&#039;uran too, taking into account time order (it is arranged in order of sura length, not time of writing, bizarrely). It was definitely the most tedious pile of rubbish I have ever read, which is saying quite a lot, actually. I got less than a third through it and came to the conclusion that I was wasting my time.

What you have to keep in mind is that old Mo often contradicted himself. This is acknowledged, so that there is an accepted practice that anything said later overrides anything said earlier (which is why you have to ignore the order it is actually presented in the text). So you can find good things, sure, but as he went on in life, and wasn&#039;t accepted outside his desert tribes, he became more bitter, I think, and the statements more extreme and intolerant. Thus a muslim will tell you about something nice that it says, without telling you that something later contradicts it, and thus is to be ignored.|EMAIL|alunap@mac.com|IP-ADDRESS|170.148.215.157|MODERATIONFLAG|