Reading al-Qur'an

“You cannot simply read the Qur’an,

not if you take it seriously.

You either have surrendered to it already

or
you fight it.

It attacks tenaciously,

directly,

personally;

it debates,

criticizes,

shames,

and challenges.

From the outset it draws the line of battle,

and I was on the other side.”

~Jeffrey Lang, Mathematics Professor

source: http://www.welcome-back.org/profile/jeffrey_lang.shtml

See his lecture From Atheism to Belief