History does show that, yes. All those burnings at the stake. All those wars of religion. But it doesn't necessarily follow that all those Christians wouldn't have insisted that they and their religion are fundamentally peaceable (even though driven to violence in their particular circumstances). After all, people rarely do what they say. And even less rarely, see that they don't.
Ursula Lawrence Helm wrote:
No, not at all. Some Christians take certain passages to impose pacifism. The bulk of Christians throughout history do not..html
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