The level of understanding that most people have regarding the christian stance on death begins and ends with the commandment "Thou shalt not kill", which is a passage (Deuteronomy 5:17) from the King James Bible, which is perhaps the most-quoted and best-known version on earth. It is, however, fraught with mis-translations borne out of the ignorance of the times in which it was created. When a team of scholars sat down to create the New International Version, they did so by going over the original manuscripts, in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and others. The translation of this commandment that they came up with reads not "Thou shalt not kill", but "You will not murder".

And man, let me tell you, there's a world of difference between killing and murdering.

Exodus 21:17 "Anyone who curses his mother or his father must be put to death"

Exodus 22:18 "Do not allow a sorceress to live"

Leviticus 20:13 "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death"

Deuteronomy 13:6-9 "If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death"

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard." 21 Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death."

Deuteronomy 22:23-24 "If a man happens to meet in town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death - the girl because she was in town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife".

Ezekiel 18:10-14 "Suppose he has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these other things though the father has done none of them: He eats at the mountain shrines. He defiles his neighbour’s wife. He oppresses the poor and needy.
He commits robbery. He does not return what he took in pledge. He looks to the idols. He does detestable things. He lends at usury and takes excessive interest. Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he will surely be put to death and his blood will be on his own head."

And these are just a few of the choicer situations in which you're supposed to "put someone to death"; a very different thing than committing murder. God, should he exist, DOES want you to kill. And kill often. For many reasons, ranging from the crime of having been raped to the crime of being free-spirited. But this is by no means the least of the brutality called-for by the bible!

Deuteronomy 20:10-16 "When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labour and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby. However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes"

Slavery and genocide! The eradication of entire cultures! Children, even babies in their cribs are to be put to death by the will of the "omni-benevolent" god! Yes, this is old testament, but as we learned in study #1, this rule still applies to this day, if you believe that the bible is the word of god. Earlier examples can be seen in Deuteronomy 2:30-35, and Deuteronomy 3:2-6.Lest you think that god dislikes death, there seems to be nothing he likes more. He's an ogre in the sky, doling out death and damnation willy-nilly to any but his favourite slaves.

This leads one to several inevitable conclusions.

1) If you are a christian, or a jew, then you ought to go out, and kill for the lord, near-constantly, if you want to keep your god happy with you.

2) If you are a christian, or a jew, and you don't do these things, then you must either decide that god does not want you to (which makes you a heretic), or you must decide that you don't care what god wants you to do (which makes you at best an agnostic and at worst an antichrist... see 1 John 2:22 for details).

3) If you are not a christian, or a jew, then you ought to fear christians and jews, because their holy book calls for them to kill and kill often. They are, by nature, blood-thirsty and dangerous.

So there's that.