I am somewhat down on ODF this week because the irritation of trying to implement it is fresh. OOX pisses me off just as much when working there :-)
Which, at the end of the day, is the point. Both formats have serious flaws. Flaws that reflect their parentage. I don't see either as being far enough along to have been blessed as international standards. However, OOX easily surpasses that bar set by ODF 1.0. We're apply a double standard (pun fully intended).

No, I'm not aware of any Christian group who believe that the Bible was "dictated" by God, and that is the position of many Muslims. However, there are a lot of Christians who believe 2 Timothy 3:16; that is that all scripture is divinely inspired. The fact that the Bible's human authors were left to find their own words for God's thoughts is not, in the end, very different from dictation.

What you say about "parables and accounts" is a slightly different issue. The Bible and the Koran both contain passages which are not intended to be taken literally, or where the meaning is just obscure. However, the examples I gave were taken from the books of law, which appear to be the Israelites' legal code. I'm not aware of any other way you can interpret these books. I would like to know about any interpretation which does not impart harshness to God in the way that comes over on a naive reading.

What I was trying to show, though, was the danger of learning about Islam by reading pro-Christian blogs. I have noticed a process where some blogger decides to have a look at the Koran. He finds something that shows Islam in a bad light, so he posts it on his blog. Perhaps it sounds striking, and so it gets copied by lots of other people. Unfortunately no one bothers to ask a real Muslim how they actually interpret that part of the Koran.

My quotes from the Bible were meant to highlight the fact that a similar process could be applied to Christianity. I don't know of any Christians who advocate slavery, whether or not for thieves. Yet it is there, in the Bible, and could give people a wrong idea about what Christians think.