Danes feel Obama is greater than Jesus

[kandrathe]

Deuteronomy 25:11-12 is a personal favourite (thanks, Adam Thrasher!).

Deuteronomy is in fact one of the books of the Bible which was added to coerce the people to follow the new edicts of King Josiah in the 7th century BC. It is exactly the same type of coercion I object to in the Koran.

Afterthought: As for scholarship, does the Hadith support your viewpoint? Or just throwing it out there? I still haven't seen the scholars or scholarship that reinforces what you're saying. (To me, it seems like projecting our biases - what is "genuine" prophecy? Is there a test for it? I don't believe in prophecy, so it all seems "contrived" to me in that sense, but how are we to figure out intent from someone 1400 years dead?)

The analysis I've seen shows that the prophecies were written after the events. Much like the biased embellishments made by Christian monks in translating earlier works. This is why historical accounts from non-Islamic writers near the same time are important in ferreting out the truth from the myth.