Excerpt #50 from my book, Religion, An Obstacle to Human Progress
About fourteen hundred years ago in Mecca, the leading city of Arabia, another prophet, Mohammed, appeared.
He too heard and had a scribe make notes — as Mohammed could not read or write — of the infallible words of God.
These writings, which were recorded in small segments over a twenty-three-year period, were compiled in a book known as the Koran (Qur’an).
Four-fifths the length of the New Testament, the Koran is considered by Muslims to be the final and infallible revelation of God’s will.
Born was another religion, Islam, (meaning peace and surrender, or submission, to God), and yet another god, Allah, (meaning literally “The God” — not a god but the God. The one true God).