“ Marriage does not always lead to child-bearing, although there is the word of God which says, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.” We have as witnesses all those who are married but childless. So the purpose of chastity takes precedence, especially now, when the whole world is filled with our kind.”
Word Frequency Comparison Between the Bible and Quran
The creators of this misguided website write, “Unfortunately, people of one faith try to use the holy text of another faith to ridicule that faith or show its abominations by pointing to a particular text, often entirely out of context or misquoted.” Their laughably unscientific, interactive infographic attempts to solve that problem by taking verses entirely out of context and misquoting them. That is, they’ve run a word frequency comparison on the woefully out-of-date King James Bible and an English translation of the Quran.
I’m actually not bothered by the fact that they’re using translations to find thematic similarities. Of course there will be similarities! Islam is a Christian heresy! The Quran is basically a bad set of crib notes on the Old and New Testaments, written by a man with no understanding of how the whole picture fits together. If you take the plot points out of a Michael Bay movie, all you have left is a bunch of explosions. Remove the father’s angst from The Patriot, and you have the story of a bloodthirsty sociopath. Remove from Scripture the antetypal covenant fulfillment of Jesus Christ, and you have the Quran. It’s the story of a moody tribal god, plagiarized and rewritten by an insipid mastermind who wanted to beat up all the kids who had picked on him.
I’m glad they’ve done this, though. I’ve been meaning to do a thematic word comparison of Jane Austen’s, Pride and Prejudice, with the recent parody, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, published 200 years later. (Mind you, that’s less than half as many years as passed between the closure of the Greek Bible and when Muhammad hatched his scheme.) I’m willing to bet I’ll discover that the parody has many of the same words and themes, but somehow loses the original plot.
“ The purpose of this paper is to re-read the last genuine Pauline text with misogynist language — 1 Cor 11:3-16 — through the eyes of Paul’s followers who saw Christ as a long-haired androgyne. … Corinthians familiar with Plato’s creation myth of the androgyne would have understood Rabbi Paul’s teaching in Gal 3:28 that both male and female are in Christ.”
Hurry up and melt, O sharp chunk of ice in my glass. You’re poking me in my nose when I take a drink.
“ All the other kids with the pumped-up kicks, you better run, better run, outrun my gun.”
“ Christian parents should not doubt that their children who die in infancy before they can receive baptism in the public assembly are elect in the Lord (2Sa 12:23; 1Co 7:14).”
I don’t know about y’all, but I see a roadrunner scamper past, I get anxious about what might be chasing him.
- Me: Where's that steam coming from?
- Derek B.: [1940s newspaperman voice] Oh, that there's the ol' steam factory!
