| hershel_layton said: He [Elisha] went up from there to Bethel; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!” When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys. (NRSV)
The sons of Judah also captured 10,000 alive and brought them to the top of the cliff and threw them down from the top of the cliff, so that they were all dashed to pieces.(NASB)
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Jahaz. And Jehovah our God delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining. (ASV)
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.' " … He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword.(NIV)
Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open. (NRSV)
All of this found from the Bible. I've even copied it exactly the way it is, so that I won't be accussed of cherry picking ;)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but those are from the Old Testament, a book that Christians read for historical purposes, rather than what they get their laws from. Christians believe in the golden rule (do to others as you would have them do to you), not the laws in the Old Testament, or they would be Jewish.
And besides, I asked how Christianity is violent, not how it was. Have you heard of christians doing this in modern times? Christianity changed from what it was in the Dark Ages, and evolved, and that is something that Islam has not done, but desperately needs to do.
