3.23.13
   Been working on reading the Qur'an. Finding it a little more than difficult to actually take seriously. The Middle Eastern version of the Bible, and I didn't find too much more than some good advice in the Bible.
    I can see why people would want to believe this, though. It's not so much that it gives hope as it does… explanation. They may be weak, but they seem plausible enough that people will blind themselves to gaping holes in their arguments. Reading the Qur'an, I don't think an objective part would read that a disobedient wife should be beaten and get on board with it. But you lay the more powerful and emotional sentiments first and by the time they get to passages like that, they're bound to listen.
    Culture has a lot to do with it too; definitely. Culture conditions us. Maybe even more so than anything else. There are always exceptions, but the majority of people within a culture will grow to emulate that culture.
    Those of us that didn't have a chance to be in the an around and influenced by culture as strongly; we developed out own; someone had to.
    All of that to say I'm not really enjoying the Qur'an as much as I'd like, but there have been some interesting insights into the culture that's influenced this work.
