All the young Americans profiled in this article are Muslim.

The more Rice read, the more the text’s contents aligned with her own core belief system. She found the Qur’an to be anti-consumerist, anti-oppressive and feminist.

Since some people have a different opinion about that, let’s say the Taliban in Afghanistan for example, the Qur’an becomes completely worthless. If everyone can interpret it one way or another, it cannot be used as a moral compass.

Or as Ricky Gervais put it:

If you do the good bits your Holy Book tells you to do & you ignore all the bad bits, you are a good person. Oh, & you don’t need the book.

People don’t need religion to be resilient. This is just propaganda nonsense.

Meh. Like finding wisdom from etchings on a cave wall.

If they’re going to read fiction at least buy the good stuff, like Neil Gaiman.

(I feel the same way about the Bible and the Torah, etc. BTW)

Why is this on this subreddit… I get the Quran, Torah, and Bible are technically books, but, like, seriously?