My Thoughts On Militant Atheism

[Mister Agenda]

There is also a call to genocide in the OT. Is that not killing? You know the folks that swung the sword were actually punished because they didn't -complete- said genocide thoroughly enough for OT god, right? Lesson being, when god tells you to off a motherfucker you do it once, and altogether. No half assed killing in the name of the lord - or your neck is the next one the axe will fall upon.
(murder, btw, is the distinction that most make there, thou shalt not murder...OT god is awash in the blood of those that have been killed, and gloriously so, clearly it doesn't take issue with -killing-)

I will not lie, the Old Testament is pretty gruesome. However I have not read it in quite some time I apologize for not remembering this verse, besides, many people follow the New Testament or the Quran, only a very small minority (which is still amazingly capable at committing various acts of crimes against humanity) follow the Old Testament.

What we like most about Jews is the vast, vast majority of them have no problem at all not obeying the bloodier commands of their Lord or regarding their text as a valid tool of military recruitment (you have to serve in the military because the Talmud says so). We want the same from Muslims and everyone else: if people of a religion become known for being violent, we wish that they would become better cherry-pickers and focus on the verses that encourage peace.

The majority of Muslims are peaceful. But Islamists definitely use the 'sword verses' of the Qu'ran to recruit terrorists, and that's part of the problem, part of what makes it so easy to motivate discontented Muslims to violence.