How do religious folks reconcile violent concepts in "peaceful" Abrahamic religions?

[Mister Agenda]

For Christians, Muslims, Jews, anyone really...

How do you guys feel about the violent/hateful verses in the Torah, Quran and Bible?

How do you reconcile these contradicting ideas? That Christanity/Islam/Judiasm is peaceful, yet their scriptures contain verses that would make even the most violent sociopath cringe a bit....?

What contradictory ideas are there between the Bible and Christianity being a peaceful religion? If you are going to go with the conquest of Canaan, do you even believe that that happened (ironically, most atheists are skeptical or even adamant that it did not happen)? The God described in the vast majority of the OT is one of love, compassion, patience, justice, etc. So your question is really, could the God described in the rest of the 99% of the Bible have issued those commands? What if we cannot reconcile the 1% to the other 99% description? At most it's a question of inerrancy (of at least the book of Joshua-which was written some 600 years after the events that it describes)?

My opinion of the Hebrews improved greatly once I realized how unlikely it is that they actually did many of the horrible things they claimed to have done. However, I have the convenience of not being married to the idea that any particular part of the Bible is true if there isn't corroborating evidence to support it.

I have the same convenience with Jesus. Since as depicted he seems to have multiple personalities, I can appreciate the parts that make sense to me and reasonably assume the rest is due to inconsistency in the legend or by the writers.

I quite like the parable of the Good Samaritan. Whoever came up with it, whether an apocalyptic rabbi named Yeshua who got into trouble with the Romans, or if it was someone else and it just got attributed to Jesus, that person was probably pretty decent and had something to contribute to the field of ethics. The parable on appropriate degrees of beating for slaves, whoever actually came up with it, not so much. If it was the same person, their work was very uneven.