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Not just the one. Both old and new testament have lot of violence and mysognistic rhetoric if you read them literally.

It may not seem like it today , Christianity is a bloody religion of conquest throughout most of its history, just the last 500 years had countless genocides conducted all over the world in its name. Gold , Glory and God was the theme of all colonization, before that period we had the another 500 years of religious wars like the crusades.

Islam is hardly the sole or even the largest abuser of faith. It is merely newest major one



Good points. I wonder how Catholicism did away with justifying the Crusades. Although I would add that Islam has been consistently bloody since inception.


I have since learned that the Crusades were actually a direct response to Islamic aggression, so that comparison sort of goes out the window




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