There’s a discussion ongoing at the Munchkin Wrangler (Welcome to the blogroll, incidentally, sorry it’s taken so long) about the Koran and the Bible.

The discussion begins with the koran-burning minister in Florida. I haven’t got a dog in that fight, but I know from the experience of my friends that this is not such a good idea.

And therin likes the crux of the problem.

It is so often repeated- and is done so by Marko in the thread- that it is possible to cherry pick nastiness from the bible AND the Koran. Well, this is bullshit. You can spend some hours flipping through the bible, but you only have to open the Koran to any page to find the xenophobia.

If you’re going to make pronouncements about the contents of the Bible and the Koran, you should have taken the time to read them first. Once you do, your thoughts on them will parallel mine pretty accurately, if you are not insane.