Consider the Koran…this wretched book was sufficient to start a world religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for 1200 years, to become the basis of their morality and a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in the translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German Philosopher