(November 8, 2014 at 8:31 am)Chad32 Wrote: Christianity wanted to attempt a peaceful religion, but it failed. Partly because it attached itsself to the Torah, which was decidedly unpeaceful, and partly because it introduced being tortured for eternity to help motivate conversions.
Most importantly because of political reasons. When they sucked up to the Roman emperor, they had to throw their pacifism overboards, which was present in early christian writings.
The bible as we know it today has been compiled in the late 4th century, when Christianity was established as the Roman state religion and started to have real political power.