[agrace]

I understand your perspective, however, you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find justification in Christianity for violent acts. It really isn't about interpretation in the sense that the text can be genuinely manipulated. The crusades, for example, weren't based on interpretation of text. If I'm not mistaken, they were a result of a papal edict that sought to halt Islamic expansion. I bet the pope in question would have had a terrible time finding scriptural justification for what he asked his people to do.

[stuartcr]

I agree in that the texts can't be genuinely manipulated, but we're talking about crazies here that read what they want into anything, not sane people. I'm sure many battles have been fought over the centuries, with both sides believing God was on their side.