Obviously most of you are aware of this, but I wanted to write it down.
Filler material, very little content. It's amazing how the perfect book that's supposedly written by God has pages and pages that have no real value. If half of the Quran was removed, the only difference I could think of is that Muslims will have more time on their hands in Ramadan.
Ask a Muslim what the Quran has ever taught them. It would certainly be difficult to give a convincing answer. Here's how it would look like:
"It taught me to be nice to my parents."
"Well, I'm just as nice to my parents, and I don't need a holy book to teach me common decency. Plus that's a lot more emphasised in the hadith than the Quran, so even if the Quran said nothing about it, it wouldn't really affect you. What valuable knowledge has the Quran taught Muslims that they wouldn't otherwise know?"
"Shut up! You're making too much sense!"
When I was still a Muslim, I spent hours trying to figure out the point of some of these Suras. If every Sura was miraculously rich and meaningful, why do I get the impression that these are completely unnecessary and add absolutely nothing? I tried hard to learn something from them, but I couldn't come up with anything remotely unique or informative.
May the hands of Abu Lahab be ruined, and ruined is he.
His wealth will not avail him or that which he gained.
He will [enter to] burn in a Fire of [blazing] flame
And his wife [as well] - the carrier of firewood.
Around her neck is a rope of [twisted] fiber.
When the victory of Allah has come and the conquest,
And you see the people entering into the religion of Allah in multitudes,
Then exalt [Him] with praise of your Lord and ask forgiveness of Him. Indeed, He is ever Accepting of repentance.
Indeed, We have granted you, [O Muhammad], al-Kawthar.
So pray to your Lord and sacrifice [to Him alone].
Indeed, your enemy is the one cut off.
Bottom line? The Quran is simply unimpressive. God certainly used the wrong method to impress humanity if that was his intention. Miraculously good Arabic you say? Really? If someone like Shakespeare claimed that his work was divine and challenged you to come up with something like it, would you even be bothered to take courses in English literature to verify his claims and meet his challenge, or would you consider the challenge to be absurd and ignore it? If it's the latter, wouldn't you be risking his version of hell for not believing in him?
Topic: The Quran is saturated with filler material