We're in total agreement with regards to the sad reality of the military meat grinder. But I have to disagree with your statement about the content of Christian's holy book leading to burning and stoning people. That's not a true statement. The content of the Bible teaches its believers that they should be loving servants to all people, including their enemies. The Old Testament exists for background of how God worked through people to bring them back around leading up to Jesus finishing up the ultimate redemption for humanity. Was the OT pretty brutal? Yeah, it was. But God ain't no pansy. As for Islam and the Quran, that same message of love and servitude doesn't quite exist in the same measure to my knowledge. There are seemingly similar, but very different reasons for their extremism at the theological level.

If and when people use the Bible to commit atrocities, they're taking scripture out of context and bastardizing entire stories and contents to their will. What's the best way to turn people from the truth? Tell people the same truth with a few lies added in. When the lies are exposed the truth gets squashed with them. Which is basically how government propaganda works. Sounds like the same evil people to me. "In God we trust", right? Their god might be from a holy book, but it's the bad guy in the story.