news wrote:
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> One cannot prove or disprove the other, because neither the koran nor the
> gospel has been proven to be true.
Both books claim literal truth. It was easy to find errors in them as I
read them. I have read defences of literal truth and they usually
ignore the more obvious errors and go to great lengths to make excuses
for small details of personal lives. Most such excuses are either
irrelevant and/or as transparently nonsense as the tactic of ignoring
the more obvious errors is.
> Using the christian gospel to disprove the koran is like saying that
> Superman is more powerful than Spiderman. You can argue about it as long as
> you like, but it's just a waste of energy.
They are myths. No one not a member should be expected to see them
otherwise. Yet I have seen people go on various discussion groups and
quote Old Testament, New Testament or Koran as if the reader were
required to take such quotations as literal truth. That's as if I went
to a Christian or Muslim group and quoted the Havamal, stated that it
is a literal quote of the words of Odin (we heathens know better) and
expected, no required, them to accept it as such. Not gonna happen.
Using the Christian Gospel to dissprove the Koran just doesn't matter to
anyone not either a Christian or a Muslim. That's using someone else's
myth against someone else's myth. That rest of us don't care. As to it
working Christian to Muslim or Muslim to Christian it's like the story
about the prisoner and the pig "But who knows, maybe the pig will learn
to fly before the hangman arrives".