Of course they aren't the same, but both books have instances where their god is responsible for mass murder and calls for their believers to kill non-believers.
The good thing about being non-religious, is I don't have to think up excuses for why my particular god did certain disgusting things that would make Hitler look like a fluffy kitten playing with yarn.
Yes there is violence in the Bible and critics like yourself are accustomed to using it as an argument against the idea that the Bible is a message from a benevolent God. The violence does give you a wonderful argument when the debate is between believers and nonbelievers of the Bible. This should not cause you to believe that these stories of violence in the Bible provide you with a way to defend the Quran, because it doesnt work. That is a completely different argument. Most of the violence in the Bible is in stories. Yes, it presents a problem for believers, but it is not the same as the Quran. In the Quran there are commands for the believer to commit violence not merely stories with violence. That makes a world of difference.
There is a very harsh law in both books, and yes it presents a problem for believers of the Bible, and believers must construct what you would call an excuse. But in the Quran the brutal law is intended for everyone in the world and the believer is expected to install it using whatever violence or deception is necessary.
I'm not defending the Quran, it's a stupid book full of lies and jibberish and I wish it never existed. I'm just saying don't throw stones from a glass house, don't criticize a holy book for horrifying things it contains then tell me out of that same mouth that your god is perfect and free of flaw when there are tons of biblical stories that show him to be far worse than Stalin.
In the Bible there are also commands for violence, tons of them, just like the Quran.
If you were born in Saudi Arabia to muslim parents we'd be having the exact same convo except in your attacks you'd be replacing the Quran with the Bible.
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But Drock, you are forgeting that the God of the Bible is the God of the Jews, God's beloved, God's chosen.
Now think about it, if some one was torturing your loved ones, what would you do to them? Wouldn't you hurt them in a manner that they won't soon forget? And if they came back and hurt them again, would you not make them disappear from the face of the earth since the fools couldn't learn?
I know what you are thinking "It is not right to take the life of hated enemies"!
But if the God of Abraham did not take their lives, then what should God do? Bleed on his enemies and bless them? Offer them eternal life? Oh come on, that won't work and you know that!