People can take religion and twist it around to justify what ever they want. The people hour mention above are no more representative of Christianity than the extremist are of Islam.
Everything I have read seems to indicate that regions are generally peaceful and are about forgiveness. The violence that people perpetrate in the name of religion is nothing more than a perversion.
Ya, OK 'Tree', I'm with you on your point, but WHY has this AREA (my SE quadrant) been so........More Brutal........over this nasty Issue than the other 3 quadrants, cause' I sure as HEL* can't figure it out, and I've been trying, for (say) the last 55+ years ?