So atheists, since you're unbiast in the matter, to you whose gospel is more peaceful, Jesus or Muhammed's?

Jesus, by a mile.

Wow - for once a slightly thoughtful question.

They are both about the same to me. If you include the OT, the Bible is far more violent overall than the Qu'ran. However if you restrict yourself to the NT it becomes a tie.

The greatest violence of course is the putative eternal torture of non-believers, which exists in both holy books.

How anyone even vaguely humane can imagine a perfect loving god who would hand out infinite punishment for finite sin is beyond me. Free will is a poor argument. Whichever version of god you prefer has infinite knowledge, and therefore knew before making an atheistic soul that it would be so, yet made it anyway knowing that eternal torment was its destination. The argument that it is man who puts himself in hell rather than any god is also false. Once in hell, what power keeps the soul there, since presumably it would prefer to leave? That power must either be directly from the god or sanctioned by the god or it would not exist, since he is supposedly omnipotent.

So in either book you have a god who could refrain from making nonbelieving souls, who could treat them in any way he chooses, and who is supposedly all good and all loving, and yet for a few decades of being ignored, he is said to impose trillions upon trillions of years of hideous torture.

I think that's pretty darn violent myself, about as violent as I could imagine. And it's in both books. Neither is at all peaceful.

I don't know enough about Muhammed's message to make an informed decision. Obviously the followers of both have little use for peace.

Jesus. But really it isn't entirely peaceful either.

Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

The Quran talks about sending us to Hell so much it gets comical.

Jesus'

I've only read the gospel of Yeshua so I wouldn't know about Mohammed.

I didn't like the Yeshua one, seemed moronic.

Brians

Something is either peaceful, or it is not.

It is not possible for something to be more peaceful than something else.

The absense of peace in any sense, ultimately means that something is not peaceful at all.

In regards to that logic, neither are peaceful. Too many killinz.

Jesus's.

I agree - Jesus Christ is God and God (of the Old Testament) was a meanie - so it must be neck and neck