Originally Posted by filtherton

Well, we aren't talking about the christians you know. We're talking about the ones who embrace a god who compels them to smite his enemies. A god who compelled syria to invade israel because the israelis angered him, and then punished syria for obliging. I have no doubt assassination falls in line with the biblically endorsed practice of enemy smiting. Chavez would be lucky if the christians didn't bury him up to his head in sand and then take turns throwing hand-sized rocks at his skull.

If the bible is the word of god, as many christians believe, how are we to reconcile their potential behavior with the behavior of their diety, a diety who oversaw the bloodening of rivers and the cold blooded murder of first born children, or the murder by drowning of nearly an entire region?

Just because you know many peaceful christians doesn't mean that christianity is not a violent religion and can't be used quite easily to justify any number of atrocities.