Of course. They have never changed nor will they ever change! Look at the violence in the Bible where God calls for ethnic extermination. Look to the Crusades. No surprise whatsoever. That is the whole basis of my hatred of religion, the violence it evokes and encourages. Name one war without a religious component! That is why if I had one wish it would be for the eradication of all religion. My second wish, well to be honest I'd have to go for the money! Or better yet give me the money and I will use it to counteract religion ie fund planned parenthood, support Progressive political candidates, purchase all the television stations that show these fucking Prosperity evangelists and put them out of business, etc. Now that would be fulfilling!

power and religion have caused more deaths than anything

Fucking Ignorance .

Jesus in the bible took a whip to the traders outside the temple, many of whom were only trying to sell the temple goers the things they needed for sacrifice and worship, and some of whom may have been poor and desperate. It was his only really significant political act. How can anyone say that christianity was not violent from the start,or that Jesus did not begin it therefore. And what is really significant about the story, if true, (big IF ), is that it was an act of enforcing religious dogma, just the sort the story of the good Samaritan is said to teach against.

Yet it is perhaps the most likely to be the one literally true story in the New Testament, since it was the one significant act which would get a small town preacher noticed, and start people asking questions about him, and It chimes with the image of a small town fundamentalist on his first trip to the big temple in the city, who found to his shock that it disappointed his expectations. If there was a real person behind the gospels, what other part of the New Testament is most likely to be the original to which the other stories attach ?

Christianity is a weapon of war against other human beings