Anyone feel this way about the Quran?

[Just_me_Mike]

When I read it or even hear people talk about it (people that are Muslim specifically) I always think about fortune cookies.

I don't mean this in a childish insulting fashion, but it is a genuine observation. It is a turn off to me, that it is scribed and recited in such a way, that sounds artificial, that sounds well like a fortune cookie.

Example, when you open a fortune cookie, it might read as such "You wisdom will know no bounds, when the moon rises shortly"
To me much of the Quran reads in this fashion, very preachy and artificial.

Am I the only one who has noticed this?

 

[DeitySlayer]

Only when certain Muslims try to apply Qur'an verses to science in a bid to make the Qur'an seem 'predictive' in some fashion.

 

[Sunstone]

The Qur'an sounds neither preachy nor artificial to me -- except in a very poor translation of it that at one time belonged to my father. That translation was both preachy and artificial sounding.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Wisdom that doesn't retain its impact when spoken in plain language wasn't generally very wise in the first place.