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Jenkins: Bible Far More Violent than Qur’an | Informed Comment

Jenkins: Bible Far More Violent than Qur’an | Informed Comment: "My experience is, people are people. They’re all equally capable of the same good and evil, across religions and cultures, and how much of each they commit has to do with both their opportunities and their character at any point in history.

The amazing thing is that the West has managed to convince itself that all its wars and killing were someone else’s fault (even though it was mainly elements of the West fighting other elements of the West that produced the charnel houses of the twentieth century).

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