Paulk writes:
The Qu'ran is more important than the Bible on that score - it's so important that you shouldn't rely on translations. You should learn Arabic just so you can read it in the original language. Or at least that is what Muslims believe. And that is what they do.
I see what you mean.
Funny true story. A while back a Muslim friend of mine gave me a copy of the Koran. Half the book was in Arabic and the other half in English. I began to read it but it made no sense to me. From page to page it was so confusing... Then one day I turned the page backward to the previous page to read again and I noticed that it made sense. Moral of the story? If you want to read the Koran, read it backward. The first page is actually the last page on the right
Anyway, to answer the OP's question, I see the bible as like the Iliad and the Oddysey. They all make great mythologies. 1 parallel I could draw out of the bible and greek mythology:
-The greeks killed all the men, threw all the children off the walls, and enslaved all the women of Troy.
-The Jews killed all the men, women, and children of Jericho except for the virgin 12 year old girls.
The parallel is for the longest time the greeks justified the act as moral. The christians are still justifying what happened to Jericho as a moral act. How? You see, the people of Jericho were sinners. Even the 2 year old little boys were going around raping the other 2 year old little girls, so they deserved to die. As Gen said, god is always just...
Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!