The origins of both religions are based on the claims of two men, Jesus and Mohammed, and both men proved equally incapable of demonstrating their divine mandate. From that perspective, the two creeds are equally based on false propositions and can be classified as nothing more than lies.

However, a further analysis reveals several dissimilarities.

While Jesus preached a gospel of peace, Mohammed preached one of violence. Jesus led a very tranquil life and stoically accepted an unjust death sentence without even trying to flee. Mohammed on the other hand, waged war against his own home town of Mecca in order to impose his new religion.

For most of the sixty-three years of his life, Mohammed was a merchant, then a religious leader, and finally a general. He was an active military leader for ten years. While Jesus told his disciples to spread his teachings by persuasion, Mohammed ordered his followers to do it by the sword, and that is what they did once he died. They launched into one of the most enthusiastic conquering ventures the world has ever seen and forged an empire that extended from Central Asia to the southwest of Europe.

Although Jesus preached a peaceful diffusion of his teachings, most of his followers did not take that road. The French king Charlemagne for example, waged countless religious wars. Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, was in the ninth century an arena of bitter conflict between the old faith and the new. Nations were ruthlessly converted to Christianity by the sword just like Islam converted Arabia, Central Asia, and Africa by the sword. With his armies, Charlemagne preached the Gospel of the cross to the Saxons, the Germans, the Bohemians, and the Hungarians.

This was not the only evangelizing military operation. There were also the infamous Crusades from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, the Inquisition, and the conquest of the American continent from the sixteenth century onwards.

Throughout the Middle Ages in Europe, the Christian Church was the most militarily powerful organization in that continent. Being the largest landowner and the biggest tax collector provided the Pope with huge amounts of money, which were used to solidify his power by establishing a potent armed force.

Despite the perennial use of violence by Christian kings, the Vatican, and other Christian organizations, the level of violence that Muslims have deployed over the centuries is higher than that of Christians. That was inevitable, considering that the founder of Islam believed in war as a mechanism of proselytism.

Islam is without a doubt a more violent religion than Christianity and the numerous unprovoked attacks that Islamists have undertaken against the West in the 1990s, culminating with the one on September 11, 2001, gives further credence to this idea. It is clear that the warring policies of Mohammed in the seventh century are as alive today as back then.

However, Christianity has had a more pernicious effect on progress than Islam for it has hindered more the advance of science. The history of science shows that the different cultures of the world were not born equal. The fact is that Western culture is responsible for the vast majority of the scientific and technological discoveries the world has seen. The progress of humanity is largely due to the ingenuity of Caucasians.

Since Christianity is the religion of the West and Christianity has systemically opposed, silenced and killed scientists, it is thus the creed most accountable for having hindered progress. Since poverty is always the outcome of an absence of science and poverty always leads to violence, it can be affirmed that Christianity has been the religion that has most induced people into war.