Excellent letter, James Ungerecht.  Unfortunately, the history of christianity and the Judaism from which it sprung is dominated by military actions, war, and conquest along with genocide and torture.  Ever since the creation by a Pope and his intelligentsia to join with the Holy Roman Empire to use the military might to carry out the same, christianity has been anything but peaceful or loving.  Founded on lies as to the very existence of any such being(s) mouthing and writing words of love and peace while waging allout war against all daring to dissent.  Man Made God by Barbara G. Walker documents the true history of this dominating religion and its subsequent creation of a madman, Islam, out of the same swamp.  Until this nation and the world sheds these anti-human religious lies, humanity and all life on the planet will continue to suffer.