5: The Table Spread

Injustice
Intolerance
Cruelty and Violence
Language
Absurdities
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Women
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Absurdity in Surah 5

  1. When it's time to pray and you have just used the toilet or touched a woman, be sure to wash up. If you can't find any water, just rub some dirt on yourself. 5:6

  2. The Quran repeats the silly story about Cain and Abel (though they are unnamed in the Quran). 5:27-31

  3. "Allah sent a raven scratching up the ground, to show him how to hide his brother's naked corpse." 5:31

  4. Allah has turned some Christians and Jews into apes and swine. 5:60

  5. Allah warns believers not to ask to many questions. (Honest answers will cause them to lose their faith.) 5:101

  6. Jesus made a bird out of clay that flew away when he blew on it. 5:110

  7. The disciples of Jesus were muslims! 5:111

  8. Jesus' disciples ask Jesus to send a table of food down from heaven. And he delivers! 5:112-114

  9. After agreeing to send down a table of food from heaven, Jesus warns his disciples that will catch holy hell if they ever stop believing. 5:115

  10. The Christian Trinity is the Father, Mother, and Son. 5:116