re: #236 astronmr20

There are stark differences in the violent passages and nature of these two texts, iceweasel. Stark.

As I did earlier up-thread, let me explain.

In the Old Testament, calls for war or violence by God were very specific to certain situations, and had a specific term with a specific goal. For instance, Jericho. When it was over, it was over. In the Koran, however all calls for violence were open-ended. I.E. “fight them wherever you find them,” and the general calls to slay unbelievers had no term- they were for forever.

Eventually, Muhammed needed less and less of a reason to carry out raids and to grow his empire. When he died, he left his followers with instructions to take the fight all over the earth, and follow that decree they did. Ask the unfortunate Hindus after their entire continent was soaked in blood. Meanwhile, Muslims continued to slay and assassinate each other— even Aisha was not safe.

There are absolutely no calls for “violence” in the Hebrew bible. The word for violence is hamas, just like the terrorist organization. That word appears in the Noah story. When the earth became so debased with violence and corruption, God had no choice but to destroy the world an begin anew - that is according to the story line … I do not mean to appear to be a fundamentalist.