{"id":86281,"date":"2023-01-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=86281"},"modified":"2023-01-12T09:20:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T15:20:31","slug":"the-strange-challenge-of-the-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/11\/the-strange-challenge-of-the-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"The strange challenge of the Qur&#8217;an"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0FCyiEaNFr8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve always found this to be a very strange argument&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t write a poetry like Shakespeare &#8211; does that mean his poetry is divine revelation? Of course not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, when I read the Qu&#8217;ran, I found it very erratic and stilted, so producing something equal or better doesn&#8217;t seem hard. I think I would submit in response to this challenge the poetry of <a href=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/favourite-people-kahlil-gibran\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4710\">Kahlil Gibran<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the challenge is impossible to meet because by what standard would one judge one better than the other? The Qur&#8217;an doesn&#8217;t say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always found this to be a very strange argument&#8230; I can&#8217;t write a poetry like Shakespeare &#8211; does that mean his poetry is divine revelation? Of course not. In fact, when I read the Qu&#8217;ran, I found it very erratic and stilted, so producing something equal or better doesn&#8217;t seem hard. I think I would submit in response to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86282,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86281\/revisions\/86282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}