God told me to do it

People are more likely to approve of or engage in violent behaviour if told that it is encouraged or approved by God. New research conducted at Brigham Young University in Utah and the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam showed that people reacted differently to a violent passage, one that describes torture and rape, from the Old Testament if they were told that passage came from the Bible than if they were told it came from an ancient scroll discovered by archaeologists.

And there I was thinking that it was just the Qur'an that promoted violence.