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I will point out that in Christianity, there is a tremendous difference between the old covenant and the new covenant. In the old covenent with the Jews as the chosen people, it was pretty much kill everyone who stood in the way. After the new covenant, being the death and resurrection of Jesus, the gospel was available to all and there was no more call to completely obliterate all the non chosen. I think that context is frequently lost, even at times among the Christians. I suppose the crusades might be the biggest example of that.
For that reason, unlike with the Quran (though I am NO expert on the Quran, certainly), I beleive that the old testament calls for vengeance, etc, are to be discounted and they are historical in nature, not to be applied today.
Of course this does not mean every Christian thinks that way. It would be a better world if they did.
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