20:10 When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace. 20:11 If it accepts them and submits to you, all the people found in it will become compulsory servants to you.
Deutononory 20:12

But if they do not accept terms of peace but make war with you, then you are to lay siege against their city. 20:13 The Lord your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword. 20:14 However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city-all its plunder-you may take as your booty. You may appropriate the spoils of your enemies that the Lord your God has given you. 20:15 This is how you are to deal with all those cities very distant from you, those that do not belong to nearby nations.

20:16 As for the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive. 20:17 Instead you must put them under the divine curse - the Hittite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite - just as the Lord your God has commanded you, 20:18 so that they cannot teach you to do the detestable things they do to their gods and you thereby sin against the Lord your God.

The Bible is such an enormous book, cobbled together from so many sources, and spanning such a vast period of time, that it's rather pointless to try to characterize it in a few words.

Sure it's a "book of peace." It's also a book of war, a book of love, hate, mysticism, manners, genealogy (those endless "begats"), history, and just about everything else.

If you're looking for nasty quotations though, this is my favourite:
"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." - Psalms 137:9

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I think its funny when people quote the Old Testament to criticise Christianity.

Please show me where Jesus said it was "ok" to slaughter a city's inhabitants.

Please show me where Jesus said it was "ok" to slaughter a city's inhabitants.

I thought that Jesus was the God of the OT?

Originally posted by Frank


I thought that Jesus was the God of the OT?

Ehhh No lol

Jesus doesnt show up until the New Testament.

Without the New Testament, there would be no Christianity.

Originally posted by Manstein
I think its funny when people quote the Old Testament to criticise Christianity.

Please show me where Jesus said it was "ok" to slaughter a city's inhabitants.
Jesus did not preach war but he did not have very kind words for the Canaanite woman (see Mt. 15:21-28; Mk. 7:24-30). In other words Jesus did not regard the Gentiles very much.

yea...tha bible is full of ****

Try reading the satanic Talmud.

The worst of them all is the Koran, whose followers still practice butchary, unlike most christians and jews.

Originally posted by kOnTrA
The worst of them all is the Koran, whose followers still practice butchary, unlike most christians and jews.

Where in the Koran are they told to butcher?

The Koran does not mention "holy war"; but its followers do.

Not that I care for any of these religions, but we must have the correct facts before making accusations like this.