There's Nothing Like That In The Bible

The video shows Tim Wildmon (president of the American Family Association) speaking on the radio program. "Today's Issues" on January 19th, 2015. He complains that Islam's Quran "has explicit admonitions or instructions for followers of Allah to do violence and harm against the infidel," and he goes on to say, "There's nothing like that in the Bible."

Original video here:

https://vimeo.com/117189438

Most Christians would assume that Wildmon is speaking the truth. They have been brought up to believe that Christians are required to love their neighbours (and their enemies too) so the idea of killing anyone doesn't sound (to them) like an idea that came from their very own bible. On the Quora website, for example, when somebody asked the question:

"Does Christianity ever advocate or condone killing 
non-believers?" 

Allen Taylor replied:

"Christianity does not advocate killing or murdering 
non-Christians on the basis of their unbelief."

It is not surprising to hear Christians answer that question in the negative because many of them have never read the bible and have no idea what is in it. They usually have the bible read to them by a preacher in the pulpit. He picks out all the good bits and skips over all the bad bits and thus gives the impression that the bible is all about love and tolerance when, in fact, it  is chock full of torture porn.

Check out the thirteenth chapter of Deuteronomy:

If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” ... do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death ... Stone them to death.

And when you've finished killing all your friends and relations, you can head off into the neighbouring towns and kill all of those bastards as well!

If you hear it said about one of the towns...that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods”...you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock.

https://www.biblegateway.com/Deuteronomy-13-6-16

When they are first told about these texts, many Christians will deny that the bible contains such horrendous laws, but once they have read the text with their own eyes they invariably start looking for escape routes. They declare that these are Old Testament laws which no longer apply - because modern Christians (they claim) are bound only to the rules of the New Testament, not the Old Testament.

That's what Joshua Engel said at the Quora website:

"Mainstream Christianity focuses largely on the peaceful message of the New Testament."

And David Wilkinson was also keen to divert attention from the Old Testament and concentrate on what he thought was the much more pleasant teachings of the New Testament:

"I can't think of anything in the New Testament that could even remotely advocate killing a non-believer ... The New Testament doesn't provide a shred of evidence for killing a non-believer, just because they are a non-believer."

But the escape into the New Testament is no help because some of its teachings are just as depraved as those in the Old Testament. For example, in the gospel of Matthew (the very first book in the New Testament) it is made clear that the Lord Jesus Christ really does want the unbelievers killed:

“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." (Matthew 18:6)

To quote Tim Wildmon once again:

"The Quran has explicit admonitions or instructions for followers of Allah to do violence and harm against the infidel [but] There's nothing like that in the Bible." 

He's wrong! There is a lot like that in the bible.