Originally Posted by Kadath

Hooray! Quotes from a religious text, taken out of context, as evidence that the religion itself is violent. I love you. The Old Testament is, of course, completely empty of this sort of thing.

Flipping to a random page in Deuteronomy...

"Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree." (Deuteronomy 12:2)