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Thomas Jefferson studied the Quran (as well as many other religious texts) and criticized Islam much as he did Christianity and Judaism. Regardless, he believed each should have equal rights in America

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Usury, the practice of giving loans that unfairly enrich the lender (e.g., interest), is condemned in most religious texts, including those of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and others.

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1. Christianity, Islam and Judaism all worship the same Abrahamic god. Their religious texts also feature many of the same figures, histories and places. Jesus is also a Muslim prophet.

2. No Nostradamus quatrain is known to have been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred, other than in vague, general terms that could equally apply to any number of other events. He copied and rephrased most of his work from other authors and religious texts.

3. The works of Shakespeare where smuggled into Robben Island Prison, South Africa under the guise of being a religious text. Prisoners annotated their favorite passages, including Nelson Mendela who highlighted, "Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste death but once."

4. There are well over 6 million Bahá'ís in the world & this religious community have 100+ year old texts that talked about the importance of establishing a system of world governance.

5. The YMCA was one of the top publishers of religious text in Russia. [PDF]

6. In 1925 a prominent Muslim scholar made a case for Islamic secularism by using the texts of the Quran, claiming Islam never advocated for a caliphate and that past rulers spread the notion of religious justifications for a caliphate to "use religion as a shield protecting their thrones"

7. Jewish cemeteries have burials for Torahs and other Jewish religious texts. Because Judaism considers it a sin to destroy sacred texts, they have their own process for burying religious documents which have degraded beyond functional use.

8. Even among Muslims, there is great debate over the age of Muhammad's wife Aisha, as some religious texts have her as young as six, making it difficult not to think of the prophet as a pedophile.

9. About the Kaka'i sect (also called Yarsan or Ahle Haqq), a secretive religious minority in Iraq who are dwindling due to Islamic persecution. Kaka'i was founded in the 1300s by mystical teacher Sultan Sahak. They have unique spiritual texts written in Gorani, a Kurdish language few can now read.

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There is a podcast called Harry Potter and The Sacred Text which examines the Harry Potter books as religious scripture