The bible doesn't condone violence, really?
Taken from Does The Bible Preach Violence?



Rwanda was caused at the hands of a Christian fanatic with the support of a number of Bishops and priests.

The list of atrocities caused at the hands of religion is far to numerous to list here.

Your argument is extremely flawed.[/QUOTE]

1.Most of your quotes are from the old testament for one which is a completely different tone then the new testament the one most protestant religions concentrate on. The old testament is meant much more as a history then teachings although they are there. The old testament God is described and portrayed as a vengful God. It is the old testament because it was written before the coming of Christ to save the world from there horrible wrong doings. God sent Jesus here to preach forgiveness not vengance.
2. The entire middle east is still in turmoil and yes it is religion that is there dispute but Christianity like Islam is a peacful religion and as with any beliefs religious or secular there will be radicals and fundmentalist who take the wrong message from the teachings.
3. I love how out of context your quotes are. Have you ever read the Bible, I mean read it like a book like it was intended to be read and then after you have read the bible front to back it then becomes a reference book. But never as a source to quote or justify reason for commiting attrocities. I more then agree that the Bible is used to justify unjustifiable things but that is not because of the Bible, these people would just find another religion or reason to commit these acts.
4. Out of context quotes are not a realistic way to defend a point, especially when you are not just quoting a paragraph of a 2 page story but a portion of one sentence of one verse. You could change a ton of meanings to a lot of things with that logic and "evidence".
5. Even the way the Bible is today is put together with the books, passages, and tone that the Catholic religion wanted at the time. A time when they required you to buy your salvation and forgiveness from the church. After you have read the entire Bible and not radicalist out of context quotes you could then read the multiple books of the Bible that the Catholic church has removed like the optic gospel of Paul and others that did not support the Catholic churches views. You know who he is right? The man who used to be Saul of Tarsus who went village to village killing Christians who was converted by God to peacefulness and spreading the gospel of love. The time of the Bible was a time of war and poverty by todays standards pretty much all religions were fighting with each other which is not the religion but mans need to be superior in every way to his foe and dominate him until they are. It is human nature that is the cause of these not the Bible or religion man just uses them to try to justify his actions.:jointsmile: