On Monday, 5 March 2018 14:30:07 UTC, Roger Hayter wrote:
Tim Watts wrote:

On 05/03/18 11:58, Tim Streater wrote:

SWMBO's degree is in Maths and Theology. She would remind you that
since originally written, the contents have been copied and translated
a number of times. Only a fool would assume that was done without error
or changing the meaning or actual words used. Anyone who says it is
literally true is a dope or fanatic.


Problem is: there are a lot of fanatics.

The Koran is a particularly interesting case as it was supposed to have
been given verbatim by the Archangel Gabriel, so as long as you're
reading in the original Arabic, it is claimed by many to be flawless (as
far as I understand).

So's the Pope supposed to be infallible. Some of the book known as the
Koran is the flawless bit (also I think possibly called the Koran just
to confuse us) but much of it is much less flawless stuff, and some of
the bits quoted by the fascists just to show how bad it is are
none-infallible bits. Of course, anyone who has studied theology knows
that almost anything can be distorted to prove almost anything.

I don't think you have to study theology to know that.




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Roger Hayter