/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14507880]

World's Greatest
Books, Authors

Vedas, author Krishna
Old Testament, author Moses
Tao Te Ching, author Lao Tzu
Tripitaka, author Siddhartha
New Testament, author Isa
Quran, author Muhammad
Mormon, author Joseph

Yahya the
Baptizer

[Anonymous No.14507888]

>The Vedas

[Anonymous No.14507928]

>>14507880
>World's Greatest
Books
>Quran

[Anonymous No.14507931]

>>14507880
>>14507888

>World's Greatest
>Books, Authors
>
>The Vedas, author Krishna
>Old Testament, author Musa
>Tao Te Ching, author Lao Tzu
>Tripitaka, author Siddhartha
>New Testament, author Isa
>Quran, author Muhammad
>Mormon, author Joseph
>
>Yahya the
>Baptizer

Musa

[Anonymous No.14507937]

>>14507928
Why?

[Anonymous No.14507941]

>>14507928
Yes.

[Anonymous No.14507954]

>>14507937
>From a literary standpoint, the Quran is borderline unreadable. Arab-speaking muslims swear that in arabic the text flows like divine poetry (and that's supposed to prove its holy origin). Maybe, but all we non-arab speakers can see for ourselves is that the text is a mess: stories ripped off almost verbatim from the Torah, misunderstanding of christian theology (Muhammad thought the Holy Trinity was made by God, Jesus and Mary), episodes who start in the middle without a clear beginning or end, mind-numbing repetitions, monotonous rhytm, and a feeling that Allah was a schizo off his meds. So many sentences start with “slaughter and drown them in their own blood” and end with “because Allah is the most merciful”.
It's a slow, confusing, sometimes unintentionally hilarious clusterfuck. Exactly what you'd expect from a book put together by decades-old fragments and memories.
>In the words of the islamist Theodor Nöldeke:

>«Indispensable links, both in expression and in the sequence of events, are often omitted, so that to understand these histories is sometimes far easier for us than for those who heard them first, because we know most of them from better sources. Along with this, there is a good deal of superfluous verbiage; and nowhere do we find a steady advance in the narration. [...]
>«The connexion of ideas is extremely loose, and even the syntax betrays great awkwardness. Anacolutha [when the latter part of a sentence does not grammatically fit the earlier] are of frequent occurrence, and cannot be explained as conscious literary devices. Many sentences begin with a “when” or “on the day when” which seems to hover in the air, so that commentators are driven to supply a “think of this” or some such ellipsis. Again, there is no great literary skill evinced in the frequent and needless harping on the same words and phrases. Mahomet is not in any sense a master of style.» (Noldeke T., “Koran”, in EB, 11th ed., vol. 15, pp. 898-906.)

[Anonymous No.14507956]

>>14507931

[Anonymous No.14507966]

>>14507954
>From a literary standpoint, the Quran is borderline unreadable

the book read by billions throughout history is unreadable because some 4chan anon said so

[Anonymous No.14507969]

>>14507954
Sure is popular. Authour also. Why?

[Anonymous No.14507976]

>>14507966
>>14507969
>a lot of people read it so it's good

[Anonymous No.14508019]

>>14507937
Jealousy

[Anonymous No.14508471]

>>14507976
>a lot of people read it (including philosophers, mystics and scholars), but it's unreadable even though i've never read it!!!

[Anonymous No.14508491]

>>14507880
Neon Genesis Evangelion, Hideaki Anno

[Anonymous No.14508544]

>>14508471
>(including philosophers, mystics and scholars)

[Anonymous No.14508563]

>>14508544
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_philosophy

[Anonymous No.14508624]

>>14507880
>Vedas, author Krishna
Why not the Briharanyaka Upanishad, author Yajnavalkya, since they're semi-legendary

[Anonymous No.14509038]

>>14507880
Muhammad is not the author of the Quran.

[Anonymous No.14509816]

Prophet Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini and Prophet Ali Hosseini Khamenei promised Me
that My First Name and My Last Name would be Displayed in Every Qur'an (Koran).

>https://rlp.hds.harvard.edu/religions/islam/quran-word-god
>https://quran.com/
>https://quran.com/18
>https://quran.com/36
>https://quran.com/55
>https://quran.com/67
>https://quran.com/ayatul-kursi

First and Last you Mother Fucker, as Promised !!

YHWH Allah
(LORD God)

[Anonymous No.14510468]

>>14507880
>>14507969
>The Elements, author Euclides
much better than any 'bibles'

[Anonymous No.14510850]

>krishna wrote the vedas
>siddharta wrote the entire tripitaka
>moses wrote the entire ot
>isa
are you retarded

[Anonymous No.14510878]

>>14509816
>Prophet Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini and Prophet Ali Hosseini Khamenei promised Me
>that My First Name and My Last Name would be Displayed in Every Qur'an (Koran)
these light novel titles are getting ridiculous

[Anonymous No.14510916]

Ocean ayys invented religion to halt technological development of mankind. Mathematics and it's many subfields specifically geometry and philosophy gave us a far better and faster understanding. This is why the Indians and Chinese spent 2000 years contemplating pointlessly about reincarnation and cyclical flows while the Europeans developed their natural sciences and improved the condition of life for everyone- including the hypocrite asians who should be rejecting all industrial development because they belief in natural suffering right?

The only texts you need to preserve is a basic high school text book with calculus and geometry anyone can rebuild civilization in a few decades, rediscover radio, electromagnetism, the steam and internal combustion engine, batteries and capacitors, resistors and semiconductors etc. Without these ideas we would still be stuck globally into subsistence agrarian societies with a callous priest class and endless border conflicts between nobles. The fact you want to credit these horrific religions is disgusting intellectually and aesthetically. Catholicism is the best of the world religions since its adherents neither practice nor believe it allowing it to be ignored as a historical curiosity.