So, what have we found out yet, as of answering my question:
An enforced affective death spiral: the more you believe, the more you are threatened (and cajoled) into believing, including a Big Brother Is Watching You approach.
Lots and lots of repetition. It seems the Qran is one big huge mantra with a number of recurring submantras. God is All-Knowing, Almighty, or Forgiving formulae are repeated so frequently they are almost puntucation marks.
Dark Arts, i.e. actual fallacious or even downright paradoxical reasoning: Oftentimes it directly adresses disbelievers from both outside and inside the community. The beginning of the Second Surah boils down to: “People who don’t believe in Me don’t because I make them, so don’t harass them by trying to convert them because it’s pointless. They think they are so clever, but they are deluding themselves, and they will be punished.” Pointing out the Insane Troll Logic to actual believers I know has only resulted in the long winded rhetoric version of “Buggered if I know”.
So, what have we found out yet, as of answering my question:
An enforced affective death spiral: the more you believe, the more you are threatened (and cajoled) into believing, including a Big Brother Is Watching You approach.
Lots and lots of repetition. It seems the Qran is one big huge mantra with a number of recurring submantras. God is All-Knowing, Almighty, or Forgiving formulae are repeated so frequently they are almost puntucation marks.
Dark Arts, i.e. actual fallacious or even downright paradoxical reasoning: Oftentimes it directly adresses disbelievers from both outside and inside the community. The beginning of the Second Surah boils down to: “People who don’t believe in Me don’t because I make them, so don’t harass them by trying to convert them because it’s pointless. They think they are so clever, but they are deluding themselves, and they will be punished.” Pointing out the Insane Troll Logic to actual believers I know has only resulted in the long winded rhetoric version of “Buggered if I know”.