[Americanized]

>>Just a question: How can you take a religion seriously when
>>it's adherents claim their religion is a religion of peace,
>>without addressing the "elephant in the room"- that is, the
>>fact that the chief prophet if Islam -Mohammed- raised an
>army
>>and attacked a city in order to establish himself as a
>>prophet? Can somebody please address this issue?
>
>Americanized,
>
>you also aren't addressing the elephant in your room. How many
>times did Jehovah himself command the Israelite army to attack
>and destroy a city in order to establish himself as the only
>god? it's all over the old testament. What do you think the
>Christian Crusaders were doing? Why are you so hell-bent on
>calling out Islam for the exact same things your religion, and
>your god, have done? Maybe you only read the New Testament,
>that's the only explanation I can come up with for this.
>

Jesus came to establish a new order, so in effect, Christianity started with Jesus. If you can find a place in the bible where Jesus advocated the murder of innocents to make a theological point, bring it up so we can discuss it openly.