Fuck I dunno . Maybe god knew Muhammed wasn ' t ever going to cross the 35 th parallel . Maybe he expected people to mentally insert in Mecca when they calculated sunrise and sunset , and millions of Muslims who don ' t live there have been screwing it up for centuries . Maybe he ' s a giant squidheaded old one who will return to devour us one day . Look , religion is all bullshit . Some of it is just weird bullshit , some is inhumane awful bullshit . God probably doesn ' t exist . It doesn ' t matter if the rules make sense or not , it ' s how people apply them or not that makes the world a better or worse place . Pointing out scriptural inconsistencies isn ' t telling anyone anything they don ' t already know , and choose to care about . or choose not to .