Christianity is violent and oppressive

Now, before I begin I would like to say I am not looking to offend anyone. And I also do not want any trolls accepting this debate, this is a serious discussion and I would appreciate a serious attitude when it comes to this. Now to start off I want to introduce my arguments for this position. 1) The Bible, just like the Quran is littered with violent and oppressive quotes in its pages. 2) It fueled most of the world's most atrocious acts of genocide and gave brutal dictators a way to seize power 3) Today, it has slowed progress in our ever evolving world and continues to breed a regressive attitude So to begin with we will address the biblical quotes that are quite frankly horrific and outright brutal. In 1 Samuel 15:3 we see an outright genocidal order with it saying, "This is what the Lord Almighty says ... 'Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.' In this God orders the Israelites to kill everyone in Amalek and not to spare anyone. And this is not even the worst yet! In 1 Timothy 2:12 Paul says, "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, she must be silent." If we follow these words all the rights women have gained would be thrown out the window. For a final example we find in Psalm 137 it says, "Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us / He who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks." There are countless more examples but for the sake of space I will leave only these quotes to validate my point. Are we supposed to call the people who wrote these passages peaceful and loving. And are we to legitimately believe that God commanded these things be done? Secondly, Christianity was used to promote some of the worst atrocities in human history. My first example will be the crusades, in which the crusaders massacred every Muslim and Jew they saw regardless of whether they were a civilian or not. And they did this because their Pope promised them an eternity in heaven for fighting to 'free' the holy land. Secondly, the Spanish Inquisition captured and tortured anyone who disagreed with any of the church's opinions. Often times people would be killed in horrific ways such as being made to sit on spiked chairs or being pulled apart slowly. Let's also not forget the ever so famous burning at the stake incident. And when it came to promoting dictators, Christianity did a great job of bringing them to power. Adolf Hitler cited Jesus as his inspiration for fighting the Jews. And the Catholic Church endorsed Hitler and his Nazi party. Nazi soldiers had 'God is with us' inscribed on their belt buckles. Mussolini even wanted the Catholic Church to have the same power it had back in the Dark Ages. And because of this, the church helped these two dictators obtain power over their countries. Finally, today Christians have halted progress for our ever changing societies. This is especially the case in America where even with the legalization of same-sex marriage, we still have people who refuse to recognize their marital status. And when it comes to science, about 42% of Americans still reject evolution for a creationist model of the universe. These same people want Christianity to be taught in schools as a fact and evolution and the Big Bang excluded completely. In history scientists such as Galileo and Copernicus were threatened with death for challenging the church's doctrine. It is a constant struggle to push forward into the future when we have people who want to revert to old, outdated ideas. In closing I would like to say that everyone has a right to believe in whatever they see fit, but this does not mean that your beliefs are free from scrutiny. Christianity is in my opinion violent and oppressive in its ideas and beliefs