And just in the past decade, Christians (and others) have helped to kill ~ 600,000 people in Iraq alone. And this is not taking into account the 200% (?) increase in cancer rates due to WMD (oh, guess it's only WMD if it's Muslims who are alleged to have them). And this is also not taking into account all of the extreme birth defects that occurred due to the depleted uranium.
JESUS was anti-war, anti-killing, anti-weapons, and anti-violence, He, who is God, stated, "Those who wield the sword, die by the sword" and "No more of this!" to Peter who cut off a man's ear, who Jesus than healed. Did Jesus harm or kill
anyone? Answer: NO. He NEVER harmed or killed ANYONE. He said "Do not kill" three times in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and also "You have heard in the old times, those who kill another will face judgement." HE is who is to be followed, the PERFECT, sinless example given to us to emulate.
The largest IMO message, though, which is anti-killing and anti-violence is John 8:1-11, where Jesus saves a woman from stoning by the Pharisees and scribes who were going to kill her (stone her to death) for adultery. He states "The one without sin may throw the first stone" and faced with their consciousness (NO ONE except God is without sin!), they all walked away, leaving her in the midst. Jesus saved her life.
Further, John the Baptist in Luke states before he baptizes Jesus in the river, "Do NO violence to any man" to the soldiers. This "Do NO violence" as ALL of Jesus's (God's) commandments apply to ALL.
When those people are doing that, they are NOT putting Jesus central, CHRISTianity puts JESUS central, hence CHRIST in the name. With Jesus not central, maybe they are ____ianity, but they cannot be CHRISTianity, with JESUS central.
I would be shocked if any other group besides Christians yelled "For Jesus!!!" and killed Muslims and others in the Holy Land, wouldn't you?
Jesus was against killing of all kinds. JESUS, who is GOD, was ANTI-violence. Jesus, God as a theophany, is given as an example to follow, a PERFECT, SINLESS example. No one comes close to this example.
He even stated, "You have heard before, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, but I tell you, when you face evil, turn the other cheek." JESUS, WHO IS GOD, "I AM the father," stated FOLLOW ME, 23 times and "If you love me, you will follow my commandments" and "Those who do not follow me, are not worthy of me."
JESUS would be against this killing.
Because you're a mind reader, right? And you KNOW what a person's intentions are.
I wouldn't. I mean, maybe not in America, but these groups have no claim of innocence either. Not by a long shot.
Buddhists - Burma
Hindus - Pakistan, Kashmir, Gujarat
Atheists - Chechnya, Afghanistan, East Turkestan (by Russia & China)
And I just know about these because it involves the massacre of Muslims. I'm sure that they've engaged in other terrible acts against other people/places, I just don't feel the need to look it up.
1) Buddhists have texts in their scriptures which rationalizes (rationalizes, NEVER justify, killing, taking the life of another human being, is NEVER justified, in ANY circumstance!) killing others, e.g., Buddha murders (though killing is ALWAYS murder, in ANY circumstance) several Brahmin in his past lives, also Buddha killed a thief as a supposed "compassionate killing" in his past life. These are the texts referred to for killing in Buddhism.
2)Hindus have killing in their texts and scripture also, e.g., Shiva kills people and threatens them. Shiva is VERY important in Hinduism.
3)Atheists may take random people or other people's words for their own to follow, so these would be their texts. Though what they take is unknown exactly as there is a large variety. They may "make it up" as they go.
4) CHRISTianity, with JESUS central, hence the term CHRIST in the name, could not in ANY sense, rationalize killing because JESUS was 10000% against it in ALL circumstances. Jesus COMMANDED His followers to NOT kill or harm ANYONE. He states, "John was more than a prophet" (John the baptist), so that means John's statement, "DO NO VIOLENCE" carries
even more weight than before, further, it matches Jesus's commandments and example, which is VERY important. JESUS, WHO IS GOD, WHO NEVER HARMED OR KILLED ANYONE, was ANTI-VIOLENCE, ANTI-KILLING, and ANTI-WEAPONS, and ANTI-WAR