Really? If your reply is any indication, it's not. You continue with:The bible says otherwise, and there would be some pagans, atheists, "witches," heretics, Jews and Muslims who might disagree with you if the Christians who first tortured and then murdered them had let them live to disagree--let's not belabor the point though, because my curiosity, and my question, about this is not limited to Christianity.Yes, "God told them to," clearly presumed in the question. The question remains unanswered:<blockquote>Why do the religious feel so superior in their faith, that it is is so different than the faith of others, that it is a fair refutation of confirmed observations and measurments of reality, so much so that adherents to their faith are justified in their burning, hanging, stoning, quartering, eviscerating, impaling, pressing, racking and just plain murdering of those who do not believe as they do?</blockquote>