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Christians of course. The first commandment is "I Am The Lord Thy God. Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me." After that, you have no choice but to convert or kill.
It's always been an enigma with me that every religion preaches tolerance and compassion but these attributes are generally ignored by all religous followers of any stripe.
Book, chapter and verse please?
You must be thinking of Muhammad, because Jesus commands his followers to love, pray for and bless your enemies.
Christians of course. The first commandment is "I Am The Lord Thy God. Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me." After that, you have no choice but to convert or kill.
It's always been an enigma with me that every religion preaches tolerance and compassion but these attributes are generally ignored by all religous followers of any stripe.
Christianity teaches anything but unconditional tolerance. Tolerance of all things leads to belief in nothing.
Surely the most institutionalized killing occurred under the Aztecs and surrounding peoples. The Sun needed blood sacrifice to keep it moving. The Aztecs and their neighbours would fight "flower wars" who's sole purpose was to capture victims for sacrifice and for social advancement (the more captives you caught the better).
But the Aztecs only lasted for 150 years....their methodology may have been more gruesome, but the numbers don't compare.
Jesus commands his followers to love, pray for and bless your enemies.
So herein lies the confusion....no one is saying that most religions, including Christianity, don't officially preach love and tolerance. The problem is that most people who practice these religions do not follow the teachings, and instead feel compelled to convert others or make them pay the consequences, which have many times been violent.
Some religions officially have also killed people, and the Spanish Inquisition is a good example of officially sanctioned torture and violence in the name of the Catholic Church, and many Imams have officially sanctioned killing or death in the name of Allah. For the most part though, it's been individuals, groups, and countries killing in the name of their religion.
I try to act in an exemplary manner and attempt to allow my actions to speak for me. I am not always successful, but to quote Confucius "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
Christianity and Islam both preach that their beliefs are the one and only true beliefs. And they preach that non-believers must be converted. And those who do not accept their religions will suffer eternal torment. And they both encourage aggressive expansionism of their religions.
Love and tolerance? Not at all. Only on a very superficial level.
It's easily Christianity. Whether you are talking about the Crusades or the Nazis during WWII, more people have killed in the name of Christianity than any other faith. I'm not judging Christianity but just pointing out a fact. Christianity has also contributed the most charity to the world as well. Without Christian principles, the Western World would not be the success it is today. It goes both ways
Hitler HATED Christianity. He hated it for its empathy and egalitarianism. His own SS were waging a religious war by desecrating churches because Hitler wanted to replace Christianity with the old Germanic pagan religion.
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