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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
At its worst, the Bible is as bad as the Quran. But the average page of the Quran seems, to me, to incite hostility towards those outside the religion a lot more often than the average page of the Bible. I just did a web search with randomly chosen translations, and found that the word hell appears 14 times in the Bible (New International Version) but 97 times in the much shorter Quran (M.H. Shakir translation), providing objective support for my subjective impression.
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I am uncertain that the number of times hell is mentioned in a book is in any way objective support that the book incites hostility towards others. Surely context is rather important?
Also, the purposes of the books seems important to me: The Bible (Old Testament) is primarily a chronicle (accurate or inaccurate is irrelevant) of the Jewish tribes; the New Testament is primarily a chronicle of part of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ (again, accurate or inaccurate is irrelevant); The Qur'an is primarily a repeated set of teachings for a way of life and, in view of its inherent repetition, will inevitably mention some words with frequency (once more, the accuracy or acceptability of the text is irrelevant at this point).
As to the original OP. I do not have an e-copy of the Qur'an but, if I did, I would delete it from my e-reader if I no longer wanted it on the e-reader. I have printed copies of The Qur'an and the Old and New Testaments and I would not burn any of them, but I would never burn any book because of the symbolism such an act evokes.