Why Qurans and Bible are surely not the words of any "God".



A Muslim asked
if there's any reason to doubt the Quran as the words of Allah. Some people listed various horrible things in Qurans; like telling believers to kill people who try to leave the religion. I went a different route; to make points that can be made equally about Bibles. --- It would be
morally irresponsible
to use that method to communicate important messages.


1. No one has a reason to even start reading it.
Finding reasons WHILE reading it ... doesn't count as reasons to start reading it.


2. The reasons (random) people (sometimes) have
to start reading so-called "holy books" ... are morally irrelevant;
including:
boredom, curiosity, being desperate, and being already somewhat indoctrinated by parents or culture.
These things don't arise as manifestations of moral character.
Nor do all humans experience these things
as ~reasons to start reading/looking~ into religions.


3. Qurans are ~Rumors~.
That's all it is.
Same as Bibles, and the Book of Mormon, and the Hindu texts.
"a god told me some stuff"
and
"I know a guy who head from a guy that a god said some stuff".


4. Too much would be lost in translation.


5. No two people have ever read the sane book.


6. Relying on such a method ... automatically implied faulty wisdom, bad planning, lacking power, and a callous disregard for the wellbeing of everyone who:
won't hear of it,
won't find the premise likely,
won't find the claims credible,
or won't correctly understand it.


7. Plus, all the suffering caused by "true believers" being biased against non-believers, differently-believers, former-believers,
and people who live-and-love differently than those books permit.... even though the way they live-and-love is natural, doesn't really hurt anyone, and has absolutely nothing to do with being "bad" or rebellious.


Our world is already too divided.
And those religions are a BIG part of the reasons why humans are so divided.


8. Such "holy books" exist as a tempting ~opportunity~
for predators (all types of predators) to easily cloak themselves in religious camouflage;
-instantly gaining:
unearned trust,
abusive power and influence of the lives of others,
religious justifications for their narcissism,
and a society willing to shelter them from accountability.


9. Discourages and lowers logical-reasoning abilities; by obligating members to reason in unreasonable ways, in order to please a "God" and avoid angering a "God".


10. Lowers compassion, with religious narratives that lower the perceived value of the lives of:
everyone their "God" plans to send to a "Hell" if they don't starting making that "God" happy before it's too late.


Also lowers compassion for everyone suffering from mental illness too, whenever the symptoms or nature of that illness is unfairly blamed on "spiritual" problems.
----
Any Super-Being who would say that stuff in those books,


and who would RELY on those books for something he could have communicate FAR better using God-powers instead, ...


is either:


created by evil men
or
exists ... but is himself evil.






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