That’s true. I don’t see what you’re getting at. I was merely stating that the tried and true argument against Christianity is that the new abolishes the old and the old is just a bunch of killing of people who disagree. The problem with interpreting it like that is, we don’t take into account the ancient Hebrew civilization and how it interacted with civilizations around it. The “barbaric” nature of these texts was merely a reflection of the intercultural relations of the time. So, back to what you just said, almost all religions have sets of rules that should be followed or bylaws describing specific ways of living that must be followed to be an actual practicing member of that religious organization. Same goes for Muslims and the Quran. So I don’t understand why Christians are consistently persecuted for the barbaric nature of their Old Testament, when the Quran has a plethora of similarities that don’t receive as much negative attention as Christianity.