sam harris
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I'm sorry you feel that way, parseInteger. Of course the Bible is full of violence, it's human history and parable. Humans have never needed the help of religion to be violent, though they have often MISAPPROPRIATED it for a selfish cause.
If you dig deeper, you'll find that there is no lack of logic, the differences between the Old & New Testament are not contradictory since they are based on two different covenants, the second being the fulfillment of the first.
I don't know any Christians who enjoy war. I know many that are Republicans, and many that have ideas on foreign policy that I DISAGREE with, but none that would condone violence. There are some people who condone violence that claim to be Christians, but really all their doing is making an attempt to fit supernatural agendas into the realm of the human and finite. Things always fall apart when people do that.
I personally believe that the world will end one day, though I'm not exactly sure how. There is a lot of metaphor in Revelation, so much of it is obviously not meant to be taken literally, besides the general notion that the world will end sooner or later, a new, perfect one will replace it, and that in this new world all imperfection will be done away with.