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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Alyosha · 31-35, M

Christianity is a religion of love, not of peace. Hate what is evil, says St. Paul.

Ceinwyn · 26-30, F

@Alyosha Yeah? Because psalm 137:9 describes how you should bash the skulls of children in with rocks.

Alyosha · 31-35, M

@Ceinwyn Yeah. Some children are unsalvageable.

Ceinwyn · 26-30, F

@Alyosha

Yeah. Some children are unsalvageable.

That’s frankly disgusting. And if you preach killing children, you’ll be next.

graphite · 61-69, M

@Alyosha The Psalm ends with a prayer that the old enemies of Jerusalem, Edom and Babylon, be destroyed (Ps 137:7–9). * [137:9] Blessed the one who seizes your children and smashes them against the rock: the children represent the future generations, and so must be destroyed if the enemy is truly to be eradicated.

Let's look for a provocative Bible verse, take it way out of context, and use it to try to refute the entire Gospel. Sounds like a plan.

Ceinwyn · 26-30, F

@graphite Thanks for underlining my point for me.

graphite · 61-69, M

@Ceinwyn You'll get to meet the Lord some day.

Meanwhile...

Matthew: 10: 14-16 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

Ceinwyn · 26-30, F

@graphite I’m off to bed. Don’t kill any babies while I sleep.

Alyosha · 31-35, M

@Ceinwyn Oh gee, a threat. I am so threatened. Look at me trembling in my threatenedness.

WhisperinAngelic101 · F

@Alyosha Beautiful! This is 100% truth!

WhisperinAngelic101 · F

@Ceinwyn Truth be told I heard about Achilles, and them other gods and what they did. No one ever mentioned thaaaaat

Ceinwyn · 26-30, F

@WhisperinAngelic101 Achilles was a man not a god. And a soldier, so no different to any modern soldier.