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Originally Posted by rhadin
If my device came with the Koran or with any version of the Bible, I would delete it. I'm not into religious persuasion.
The question really should be would I read the Koran to learn about it? To that I would say yes, just as I would consider reading one of the Bibles to learn about the religion it represents. But the truth of the matter is that none of the bibles or korans are particularly meaningful when it comes to understand religious views because each sect within a religion has a different slant on the meaning. For example, is the 6-days to create the earth incontrovertible fact meaning 6 24-hour days or is it parable? If God did dictate the Bible, why are there so many versions?
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Very true. Studying sacred texts can be useful for many things, but not to understand the religions that are supposedly based on them.