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Christianity a religion of peace?

King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway to the pagan folk or Orkney 995 AD:

"I order you and all your subjects to be baptised. If you refuse, I'll have you killed on the spot and I swear I will ravage every island with fire and steel."
- The Orkneyinga Saga Ch 12

It doesn’t sound all that different to the videos made by Islamic State ten years ago. Another poisonous Abrahamic religion…
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As I see it, it is us - humanity - that is violent.

There have been individuals who have lived peaceful lives - and these have been of every Faith and sometimes of no Faith at all.

I leave it to the "true christians" to salvage something from the wreckage.