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"The Old Testament contains a lot of things that could be construed in the same way as we perceive the Koran."

I am so sick of hearing this LIE repeated. Please post them. The OT does NOT command man to kill God's enemies for all time. Only ONCE does God tell the Jews to destroy another evil tribe, which they did NOT do.

I actually agree with you on interpretation. I am only saying that those things can be taken without context to mean things that they didn't mean by folks who want to prove that all Jews and Christians are warriors.

The Koran IS very different in its approach. That does not mean however, that moderate Islamic scholars couldn't start to see that same information through another paradigm. It may not be possible...but what else is there?

(And btw, God may have only told the Jews once to destroy another evil tribe...but there sure is a lot of general fighting and mayhem in the Old Testament which has been interpreted in some pretty screwy ways.)