The Divine and Human Violence In the Bible Creates Violent People

There's so much divinely caused and commanded violence in the Bible it can be said the fear of an angry punishing God is its most prevalent theme, hands down. It creates angry self-righteous people who follow in the footsteps of an angry self-righteous god. The great agnostic Thomas Paine noted this: “It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.” This is the point of Elicka Peterson-Sparks's book, The Devil You Know: The Surprising Link between Conservative Christianity and Crime. I wrote the following blurb for her book: 

Why is the United States such a violent nation filled with so much crime? The startling answer proposed by criminologist Peterson Sparks is that it’s due to the tremendous impact of the Bible and Christianity on the culture, institutions, and political life of the United States. She specifically indicts Christian theocratic nationalism for this, with its hateful, xenophobic, war-mongering, gun-toting, misogynistic, child-abusing, gay-bashing, get-tough-on-crime, right-wing nuts. This is the devil in disguise we already know, finally exposed for the evil it is. This book is a masterpiece! It should scare the hell out of you.

Below are several links to biblical texts proving the point, starting with Wrath Of God and Anger Of God, Consequences. 

--Valerie Tarico, psychologist, author of Trusting Doubt: God as the original terrorist: 6 ways the Bible condones horrific acts of brutality.

--Sarah Rollens, visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College: Violence in the Bible: Greatest Hits.

--Shelly Matthews, Professor of New Testament, Brite Divinity School: Violence in the New Testament.

--Dr. Richard Carrier, author of Jesus from Outer Space: What the Earliest Christians Really Believed about Christ,  The Will of God. 

--The most comprehensive list with discussion is probably at Wikipedia: The Bible and Violence.