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I'd have to disagree. The Bible is big on warfare. A lot of the Old Testament is about the Israelites carrying out God's instructions to wage ruthless, bloody wars against other civilisations; razing cities, massacring the civiian population etc., as per the practices of the time period in question.
Warfare is a big topic in the Bible. It's not all "love your neighbour"... Sometimes it's more like "Invade your neighbour's country, burn their towns and leave nothing alive."
So unless there's been a complete about-face in policy here (which I don't think there has been - doesn't the New Testament say there is a time for warfare?), I wouldn't paint such a pretty picture of the matter.
Sometimes I find the Bible to be a little atrocious and contradictory.
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There's still plenty of "invade thy neighbour" in the post-war period. They simply dress it up now with words like "liberty" and "freedom" to an even greater extent than before, because people have finally realised that on a personal level, war isn't usually a good thing (though it's often beneficial for national/economic/political reasons).
This "terrorism" thing is slightly different, but it is still fundamentally the same; a clash of interests over power, dominance, resources etc. leading to conflict.
I don't think they carry out terrorist attacks because they're "crazy religious nuts" as some would say. It's their way of fighting a war that, if fought with conventional methods, they would lose very quickly.
As for the actual topic, I was simply stating that religious/holy texts are not all peace, love and flowers.
Besides, it's not like this has anything to do with the original topic of the thread...
