Debate: Is Islam a religion of violence or a religion of peace?
Side: peace

"Ye are come ... to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel." 12:22-24JamesJames says Abraham was justified by works (for being willing to kill his son for God); Paul (Romans 4:2-3) says he was justified by faith (for believing that God would order him to do such an evil act). 2:211 PeterWe are all, according to Peter, predestined to be saved or damned. We have no say in the matter. It was all determined by "the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ."1:2"The precious blood of Christ ... was foreordained before the foundation of the world."God planned to kill Jesus from the get-go. 1:19-20God drowned everyone on earth except for Noah and his family. 3:202 PeterGod drowned everyone else on earth except for Noah and his family. 2:5, 3:6"Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes" 2:6God will set the entire earth on fire so that he can burn non-believers to death. 3:7When Jesus returns, he'll burn up the whole earth and everything on it. 3:101 JohnChristians are washed in the blood of Jesus. 1:7Jude"The Lord destroyed them that believed not." 5God sent "eternal fire" on the people of Sodom and Gomorrah for "going after strange flesh." 7-8RevelationJesus "washed us ... with his own blood." 1:5Everyone on earth will wail because of Jesus. 1:7Jesus has "the keys of hell and death." 1:18Repent -- or else Jesus will fight you with the sword that sticks out of his mouth. (Like the limbless knight in Monty Python's "Holy Grail.") 2:16"I [Jesus] will kill her children with death." 2:23"Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." God created parasites, pathogens, and predators for his very own pleasure. One of his favorite species is guinea worms. 4:11"Thou art worthy ... for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood." 5:9God gives someone on a white horse a bow and sends him out to conquer people. 6:2God gave power to someone on a red horse "to take from the earth ... that they should kill one another." 6:4God tells Death and Hell to kill one quarter of the earth's population with the sword, starvation, and "with the beasts of the earth." 6:8The martyrs just can't wait until everyone else is slaughtered. God gives them a white robe and tells them to wait until he's done with his killing spree. 6:10-11God tells his murderous angels to "hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of your God on their foreheads." This verse is one that Christians like to use to show God's loving concern for the environment. But the previous verse (7:2) makes it clear that it was their God-given job to "hurt the earth and the sea" just as soon as they finished their forehead marking job. 7:3144,000 Jews will be going to heaven; everyone else is going to hell. 7:4Those that survive the great tribulation will get to wash their clothes in the blood of the lamb. 7:14God sends his angels to destroy a third part of all the trees, grass, sea creature, mountains, sun, moon, starts, and water. 8:7-13"Many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter." 8:11The angels are instructed not to "hurt the grass [how could they? He already had all the grass killed in 8:7] ... but only those men which have not the seal of God on their foreheads." God tells his angels not to kill them, but rather torment them with scorpions for five months. Those tormented will want to die, but God won't let them. 9:4-6God makes some horse-like locusts with human heads, women's hair, lion's teeth, and scorpion's tails. They sting people and hurt them for five months. 9:7-10Four angels, with an army of 200 million, killed a third of the earth's population. 9:15-19Anyone that messes with God's two olive trees and two candlesticks (God's witnesses) will be burned to death by fire that comes out of their mouths. 11:3-5God's witnesses have special powers. They can shut up heaven so that it cannot rain, turn rivers into blood, and smite the earth with plagues "as often as they will." 11:6After God's witnesses "have finished their testimony," they are killed in a war with a beast from a bottomless pit. 11:7The bodies of God's witnesses will lie unburied for three and a half days. People will "rejoice over them and make merry, and shall send gifts to one another." After another three and half days God brings his witnesses back to life and they ascend into heaven. 11:8-12When the witnesses ascend into heaven, an earthquake kills 7000 men. This was the second woe. "The third woe cometh quickly." 11:13-14"The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world"God planned to kill Jesus before he created the world. 13:8Those who receive the mark of the beast will "drink of the wine of the wrath of God ... and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone ... and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever." 14:10-11Jesus sits on a white cloud with a sharp sickle in his hand. When the angel tells him to reap, he kills all the people with his sickle. 14:14-18"The great winepress of the wrath of God ... was trodden ... and the blood cam out of the winepress, even unto the horses bridles." 14:19-20Seven angels with seven plagues are filled with the wrath of God. 15:1, 7The seven vials of wrath: 1) sores, 2) sea turned to blood, 3) rivers turned to blood, 4) people scorched with fire, 5) people gnaw their tongues in pain, 6) Euphrates dries up, 7) thunder, lightning, earthquake, and hail. 16:1"There fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast." 16:2"The second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea." 16:3"The third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood." 16:4God gave the saints and prophets blood to drink. 16:6Another angel tells God how righteous he is because he gives saints blood to drink. 16:7"Power was given unto him [the fourth angel] to scorch men with fire." 16:8Those who were being burned to death by God didn't repent "to give him glory." 16:9"The fifth angel poured out his vial ... and they gnawed their tongues for pain." 16:10Even after being burned alive, those nasty people wouldn't repent! 16:11Christians will fight in the war between Jesus and those allied with the beast. 17:14"They shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire." (Are they going to eat her first and then burn her?) 17:16-17To punish her God will send plagues and famine, and "she will be utterly burned with fire." 18:8God will send plagues, death, and famine on Babylon, and the kings "who have committed fornication with her" will be sad to see her burn. 18:8-9Jesus makes war. 19:11Jesus' clothes are dipped in blood and his secret name ("that no man knew") is "The Word of God". (I bet you thought it was Jesus!) 19:13With eyes aflame, many crowns on his head, clothes dripping with blood, a sword sticking out of his mouth, and a secret name, Jesus leads the faithful in heaven into holy war on earth. 19:14-15"Come ... unto the supper of the great God." An angel calls all the fowls to feast upon the flesh of dead horses and human bodies, "both free and bond, both small and great." 19:17-18The beast and the false prophet are cast alive into a lake of fire. The rest were killed with the sword of Jesus. "And all the fowls were filled with their flesh." 19:20-21God will send fire from heaven to devour people. And the devil will be tormented "day and night for ever and ever." 20:9-10Whoever isn't found listed in the book of life will be cast into the lake of fire. 20:15All liars, as well as those who are fearful or unbelieving, will be cast into "the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." 21:8