I at least give the proselytizing Christians credit for caring. The luke warm Christians, though less annoying, seem more selfish. They are content in believing they are going to heaven, but don’t seem very concerned about the lost souls of everyone else.
A Christian just can’t catch a break on the SDMB, can he/she? 
Faith is ignorance incarnate, so no.
Christianity isn’t an eastern religion.
To people who are completely convinced Christianity is innocent or less evil than any other religion, do remember: you are reading history written by Christians. That’s not to say it’s necessarily more evil; just that everything you read in the States is mostly biased. It’s not easy to get non-Christian writings, and even more difficult to get non-Christian writings that aren’t automatically hateful towards Christianity!
What?
Of course it is. Together with the Isis cult and Mithras worship.
How do you get that? Abraham (to the degree that he existed as an actual person in history) was from Asia, and Asia is the birthplace of Judaism. One would expect it to follow that all Abrahamic religions are Asian.
Read the book of Joshua* and get back to me about “the infidel thing by force if necessary” not applying to Judaism. In fairness, the Jews technically didn’t try to convert; they simply slaughtered every man, woman and child wherever they felt God was telling them to take over.
To some extent, religions evolve, or go through phases, anyway.
Modern Christianity, along with modern Judaism, are in a pretty peaceful phase. I think Christians are still in a proselytizing phase on average, although my impression is that that is fading compared with years past. But force is out. Middle ages stuff, and to some extent, an excuse to conquer the world during European takeover of the incompetent.
Islam, unfortunately, is kind of permanently stuck a few hundred years back for a much larger percentage of its devoteees than is either Judaism or Christianity.
*Joshua 6:21
New International Version (NIV)
They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
However, this stuff certainly never happened. It was just wishful thinking after being oppressed and conquered so many times. Kind of like the 98 pound weakling dreaming of kicking sand in the face of the bully.
Hindus believe that all religions reflect the same basic truths, and thus everyone is a Hindu. So, in a sense, Hinduism has expanded everywhere via a much more effective methodology that proseltyzing: redefining things. 
You are assuming that the stories in Joshua are not apocryphal, or adopted from another culture.
“Eastern religion” doesn’t mean “Asian-origin religion.”
East and west are relative terms. In terms of religion, the three Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam --are the major western religions. Hinduism and Buddhism are the major eastern religions.
Chief Pedant has a point. I should have stressed modern Judaism. In one of the Jewish groups I belong to, a member was very upset that a friend has said the Jews were guilty of genocide. She was furious and expected us to be furious too. Instead the response was ‘Well, we did wipe out the Canaanites and the Amelakites’.
I don’t think that gets you off the hook in terms of where your fundamental paradigm is. It’s pretty clear that for a couple thousand years the Jews were all good with an oral and written history of genocide.
Now it’s kind of reassuring to say it was all bs. At some points in time of Jewish history, it would have gotten you executed for heresy.
AFAIK, only pronouncing the Ineffable Name qualifies as heresy punishable by death.
However, claiming that biblical events never happened or were allegorical would probably get you banished.