Home Office quotes Bible verses to prove Christianity is not a religion of peace

The violence in the Bible is no laughing matter. The god that Christians worship is well known to be a vengeful, violent, brutish and arbitrary despot, threatening cruel retribution to sinners and non-believers, and perpetrating genocide on several occasions. The Book of Revelations is particularly nasty in its dire prognostication.

The violence in the Bible is no laughing matter. The god that Christians worship is well known to be a vengeful, violent, brutish and arbitrary despot, threatening cruel retribution to sinners and non-believers, and perpetrating genocide on several occasions. The Book of Revelations is particularly nasty in its dire prognostication.

I however think He's great

Well, obviously, if you have a penchant for worshipping vengeful, violent, brutish and arbitrary despots then your god is as good as any. As for the books, my own favourite, as it gives light relief, is human, does not try to lay down any arbitrary rules and written by an entertainer is Song of Solomon.

Say what you like about Samson, but he gave the Philistines a bloody good spanking.

Well, obviously, if you have a penchant for worshipping vengeful, violent, brutish and arbitrary despots then your god is as good as any. As for the books, my own favourite, as it gives light relief, is human, does not try to lay down any arbitrary rules and written by an entertainer is Song of Solomon.

One thing you are forgetting, rightfully vengeful, rightfully violent and rightfully brutish

I think you could quite easily show some statistics that show that Christianity is far more of a "religion of peace" than certain other ones.

I think you could quite easily show some statistics that show that Christianity is far more of a "religion of peace" than certain other ones.

Vengeance, violence, and brutishness are fundamentally wrong.

If you want to live in a world where personal vengeance and brutish violence are right then I can suggest a few places that might fit the bill. Fortunately, we don't go for it much around here, even for gods.

Certainly can try.
Let's start with the statistics from all the papal medieval inquisitions, progress onto ferdinand&isabella's spanish inquisition, then take the statistics from Foxe's Book of Martyrs plus all the relevant statistics from tudor/stuart/cromwell eras and then finally add the statistics involving all the victims of Matthew Hopkins.
For the purpose of comparison with the statistics of raëlism, scientology, jehovah's witnesses and pastafarianism.

Yes now it is.But it's history is long and bloody.The crusades ring a bell? The inquisition? The troubles? How about all those nice Catholic orphanages in northern Ireland where they murdered babies? Christianity is far from innocent.Its just mellowing in it's old age.Islam will too.

Funny thing is at the moment I nor anyone else has to worry about Inquisitions or what was going on in the tudor period, we are talking about here and now, recent memory and looking at that then we are certainly doing better than the other real big religion of 'peace'

No they are not. Think about it like this, God created this whole universe just for us and we saw that it was good. It was perfect.
But then sin got in and the world was under a curse. And humans continued to sin even though he warned them not to. Now if vengeance and violence and brutishness are not wrong if they are done in righteousness and God is without sin so he does all this in righteousness.