If we treat the Old/New Testaments and Quran as historical documents, an academic approach would be to start with knowing the language the original source documents were written in. Then formulate your own analysis and not rely on several generations of translations and reinterpretations.

I just get frustrated when people take verses from the Qur’an out of context.

It’s no more violent that the damn bible — which is also a pretty violent book.

You’re cherrypicking

You haven’t actually studied the Quran much, I see.

Yep, the genocide of all those people at Jericho sure was loving and peaceful. Oh, so was the drowning of all those Egyptians. Don’t forget Revelations! There’s plenty of calls to violence in all the various forms of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic books

Also, you’re using all these quotes out of context.

Both bibles do that. Both bibles are fucked up.

Okay, so this is where the free market is a wonderful thing! Who is the next Facebook developer? When it becomes easy to switch, and when Facebook gives customers less of what they want, the next big shift will occur.

The entirety of religion ...

The rest of the book is very very scary.

not cherry-pick verses

My assumption in my challenge to read the two books was that a reader would be able to read the texts within their contexts, and not cherry-pick verses they’d found posted online.

The Bible (particularly Old Testament) is FULL the exact same kind of conquering and subjugating bullshit.

I think the DJI drone is an illustrative one, to show members of the congregation, no? As you correctly point out, the range of a consumer drone is pretty small, and it would put the drone pilots at risk (and wouldn’t get very far into ISIS territory. Using a contractor, I would assume, means that there are some…

It’s basically the same book that they have:

Came here to represent for the old school guys (and gals.) We played this game before, way back in the last century.

Nonsense.

Because there is none.

I’m disappointed that we aren’t talking about how bad the new Ghostbusters is. Can we go back to that?