re: Hate is foreign to faith. Any religion that has hate as a foundational tenet isn’t faith

Hate is a weakness that I try to prevent within me. Sometimes I fail. Many times I succeed. As long as I realize that I’ll never be perfect and be accountable when I fail, it doesn’t have to be a struggle.

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Cathars were killed during the 13th century in the name of Christ.

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Carthars were Christians, big brain brad, just not the kind that the heretics in rome wanted, so said heretics went and killed them.

as far as theology goes, Islam is predicated on subjugation, conquest and slaughter of nons. Christianity is not. that's not up for debate.

what people in the middle ages did can be discussed, but there's only one religion circa 2026 that's still behaving like barbarians. pretending like they're not is retard-level coping.

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Where in the Bible does it say that Christians should conquer non-believers by force? Where in the Bible does it say that Christians should treat non-believers different than believers?

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Let’s look at Deut 13:

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1“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ 3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. 5But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. 6“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known, 7some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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Leviticus 24:

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16Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

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St Augustine famously interpreted Luke 14:23 to be a command to compel heretics by force to return to orthodox belief.

The inquisition used John 15:6 to justify throwing heretics and nonbelievers into the fire burning them alive.

And then we have the example that Yahweh set for us in the Old Testament. He killed the Egyptian firstborn. He ordered the genocide and massacre of babies of the Midianites and Canaanites. It promotes the dashing of babies of enemies against the rocks.

The Europeans used the Bible as an excuse to justify mass conversions and slaughter of other peoples in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.