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Which is more violent, the Bible or the Quran?

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  • Which is more violent, the Bible or the Quran? Is there a way to objectively answer such a question?

    Well, it wouldn't be easy. But it is possible to compare the amount of cruelty and violence in the two books.

    Here is a summary of the highlighted verses in the SAB and SAQ.

    Bible: 857

    Quran: 488


    So the Bible has more cruel or violent passages as the Quran. But the Bible is a much bigger book. How do they compare when size is taken into account?

    Bible
    Violence and Cruelty: 857
    Total verses: 31173
    Percent: 2.75

    Quran
    Violence and Cruelty: 488
    Total verses: 6236
    Percent: 7.83


    When expressed as a percentage of cruel or violent verses (at least as marked in the SAB/Q), the Quran has nearly three times that of the Bible. (7.83 vs. 2.75%)* Of course this analysis does not consider the extent of the cruelty in the marked passages. And that is an important consideration. Is Numbers 31:14-18, for example, more cruel than Quran 5:34? That is something that each person must decide.

    A good argument could be made that either book is the most violent and cruel book ever written. The award would go to one or the other, for neither has any close competitors. It is frightening to think that more than half of the world's population believes in one or the other.

    Posted by Steve Wells at 6/09/2006
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