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If you read the Bible with the same kind of rigour that you read the Qur'an, I bet you you'll find pretty much the very same attitudes and beliefs.
Let's not forget Revelations, and its clear message of God's undying hatred of any who does not accept Christ. Not only that, but Christ will only accept those who are the most mindlessly radical about their beliefs: "I will vomit the lukewarm".
The whole book of Joshua is a paean to genocide. And that's the "Book" that Christians consider holy?
I have neither the time nor the inclination to go through the Bible with a fine-toothed comb as you did with the muslims' scripture. Others did that before me, and did quite a good job of it. Simple fact is that both the Qur'an and the Bible(s) are full of venom. But most believers, Christian, Muslim or Jew, tend to ignore that venom. If not, the world would have annihilated itself a long time ago...
