Islam and Ra

[Ali Quadir]

What bothers me sometimes is that many things in the Quran are the way they are because of the settings in which it emerged. And that's what i meant by saying it has distortions. Maybe its not distorted per se, but considering the following:

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I think every religion, as it emerges, is somehow "tailored" to the society in which it rises.

Amen brother... This is the crux for me.

Just like when a God or higher entity speaks to us they speak in english they also speak in the language of our time and our culture. So if the words are passed to us from a different time or culture. We need to distill the esence from it..

Taking things literally as they are transferred all the time is generally a stupid idea.

If God had wanted us to think he would have given us brains...
Oh... Wait....