Reply #17: Absolutely

[nadinbrzezinski]

you can make this claim abuot almost all religiions and if you look carefully you will find periods in Chiristian history where that violence has been VERY REAL... oh the most obvious example are the Crusades... my personal favorite are the 100 years war.

Is Christianity a violent religion perse? No, it becomes such only when it is mixed with the powers of the state... see Catholicism in the Middle Ages (which used the state)... Calvinism, 100 years war, et al. If the fundies succeed in taking down the wall between church and state (whose originator was NOT Jefferson but in England adn the War of the Roses.

For the record anytime you take any religion and mix it with the state you will have such a result.

Have Christians always had people such as these who preach violence? Yes... have other faiths, absolutely...