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by waps 4035 days ago
It is generally accepted that Lucas, Matthew, Luke and John were educated Greeks (a publican, student,and a physician), who were educated in the philosophy of reason. So was the council that collected these works into the New Testament.

In contrast islam's holy "books" were mostly orally transmitted for the first ~100 years by soldiers. The quran is a sorted list of things most of said soldiers agreed upon. The hadith is most of the things they didn't quite agree upon.

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> It is generally accepted that Lucas, Matthew, Luke and John were educated Greeks (a publican, student,and a physician), who were educated in the philosophy of reason.

I'll point out that you just claimed that those four named sources were three people.

> In contrast islam's holy "books" were mostly orally transmitted for the first ~100 years by soldiers.

That's not that much shorter than the generally accepted time between the time of the events recounted in the gospels and the time that the canonical gospels were written.

> The quran is a sorted list of things most of said soldiers agreed upon. The hadith is most of the things they didn't quite agree upon.

Again, false information. The Quran was written down during the time of the Prophet Peace be upon him, as was the Hadith. Both were both transmitted orally and through scribes. We have early scribes that were written during the time of the Prophet Peace be upon him, and later on narrations that were documented decades after him, and they match perfectly.

Mind control is mind control is mind control, by any other name...mind control made up by "educated people" is probably harder to fight