And as to 'cherry picking' the bits of the Koran which show the faith in what some would regard as an unfavourable light: is not that part of the tendency for the bad to be more noticeable and memorable than the good. ( Hence such phenomena as Godwin's Law, say; or the remark of whoever it was, "Happy is the country who has more history. & those lines of Yeats which I am always quoting, "The best lack all conviciton, While the worst are full Of passionate intensity")?

So, honest now!, is not an injunction to love everyone around going to be less noticeable, and less memorable, to the vast majority of human beings, than a command to kill all who won't accept that yours is the only true path?

So which is the more likely, is indeed asking more, to be cherry-picked?

Honest, now.

☞ on ♥ !