"My Balogna Has a First Name......"

Remember that old TV commercial?
"My bologna has a first name, it's O-s-c-a-r.
My bologna has a second name, it's M-a-y-e-r.
I love to eat it every day, and if you ask me why I say,
That Oscar Mayer has a way with b-o-l-o-g-n-a."

Funny, Oscar Mayer sounds like a Jewish name, and yet he made lots of money selling pork products. I read somewhere that, when somebody asked him about it, Oscar said that Jews aren't supposed to eat  pork, but nothing prohibits them from selling pork to the Gentiles.

God did indeed tell Adam to name all the animals, but He didn't tell him to name his tools and weapons. I don't think He told Adam not to name his tools and weapons either, but I doubt that he told an unbeliever like you to name my tools and weapons. Well, Paul the Apostle was an unbeliever himself before he passed out on the road to Damascus, so maybe there is hope for you yet.

Paul was indeed one of the prime movers behind the spread of Christianity, but he didn't do it single handedly. Jesus actually left Peter in charge when He checked out, and there was some kind of power struggle between Peter and Paul, but I think they resolved it amicably before they were both crucified by the Romans. I don't know about Peter, but Paul probably wouldn't have been crucified if he hadn't insisted on appealing his case to Emperor Nero, which was his right as a Roman citizen. As I remember it, some lesser official was inclined to let Paul off with a warning, but ended up saying "He has appealed to Ceasar, and to Ceasar he shall go". I don't think they had a lot of freedom of speech in those days, or Paul wouldn't have gotten in trouble with the authorities in the first place.

Without looking it up, I believe it was the First Commandment that said "I am the Lord thy God.......you shall have no other gods before me...." or words to that effect. Some scholars interpret this as evidence that the early Hebrews were not monotheists, they just believed that their god was pre-eminent over all the other gods. They also believed that their god wanted them to invade Canaan and slaughter all the inhabitants without mercy, perhaps because the Hebrew god was pissed off at the Canaanite god. So much for all the religions saying the "same nice things" about each other.

Islam came along much later, but it claims to be the original true religion of the one true God. I have read the Koran, and I don't remember Mohammed saying any nice things about anybody except his own followers. After Mohammed died, those followers fought a bloody civil war over who was to be his successor, and they are still fighting to this very day. Both the Jews and the Muslims believe in the same Old Testament, although their translations are not identical. I have read most of that too, and I don't remember anybody saying anything nice about anybody else's religion. Probably the most tolerant character in there was Cyrus the Great of Persia, and he was a Zoroastrian. The Book has some nice things to say about Cyrus, but none of them refer to his religion.

You may be right about the Hindus, there is lots of violence in their scriptures, but I don't know that any of it was directed against non-Hindus. I have only read a couple of their texts, and I understand there are many more that I haven't read. As far as I know, the Buddhists are supposed to be non-violent, although I seem to remember they had some kind of altercation with the Catholics in Vietnam back in the day. Now that I think of it, I think the Catholics started it, and the Buddhists retaliated by setting themselves on fire in public places. Like I said before, them Orientals are just inscrutable.