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For the TLDR crowd: Violence is not a Christian doctrine. Violence perpetrated in the name of Christianity is heretical, no excuse or justification for it.

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Uh...Just War doctrine has been around for about forever, and is both Christian and details the proper means for dispensing violence.

All sorts of Christian thinkers from Augustine to Aquinas to Pope John Paul II have discussed the proper restraints in wartime. The first limitations on violence in warfare were innovations of the Catholic Church.

Now, the distinction to be raised was one raised in the wake of the 30 Years War, where violence in its own name became its own self-reinforcing dynamic.

So, to be a Bohr_Adam or 2minkey and play the "all is equal" game is at best lazy thinking.

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Islam is evil.

I was arguing about the crusades with an idiot that hates Christianity and all organized religion. After explaining that Christians had been attacked by Muslims for centuries before the Crusades, he kept asking why Christians didn't just keep turning their cheek like the Bible says.

I asked him why the Koran says it's ok to kill non believers and suggested that he learn the Bible before claiming to be an expert on it.

I just can't understand how some people can give evil a pass but jump on any little mistake Christians make. I'm not saying the crusades were a mistake. I think they should have done more.

They whine and bitch about hypocrisy and totally ignore the hypocritical standard they use to compare Islam to Christianity

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They are disingenuous dolts. An evil or flawed individual with any christian affiliation, that acts in a way that is clearly against christian teachings, becomes representative of the entirety of the christian faiths. Muslims have, at the very least, large sects that are evil and violent, yet the same people claim that those that act on the teachings are the exception.