Laying Down the Sword

"One of America''s best scholars of religion" (The Economist) examines the Bible''s most violent verses and explains how rereading them strengthens faith.Commands to kill, to commit ethnic cleansing, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and fear other races and religions—all are in the Bible, and all occur with a far greater frequency than in the Qur''an. But fanaticism is no more hard-wired i...