In my life I have come to realize for every possible opinion on any topic you can find someone convinced what they believe is what God wants.
To me that is a hallmark of someone who can't distinguish God from their own ego. The world is populated with Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindu's, Buddhists and other smaller religions, and various subgroups within each major religion. In every religion with which I have some personal experience I have known believers who use their religious faith to build loving families and successful lives based on shared community. Equally, it seems, in every religion there are ideologues who foment discord and sometimes condone or even encourage violence.
It seems patently obvious to me there are many paths to God. Those who claim ownership of the only path to God, are usually seeking to profit from selling God.
It is also patently obvious from the evolution of human society that God gave us the brains we have to use our brain to chose how we live our lives. God wants us to chose respect and love. But we cannot make a choice when a particular outcome is forced on us. God can handle choosing the proper response to our bad choices. God doesn't deputize enforcers, those who claim to be deputized to judge the sins of others, who advocate methods to forcibly change behavior of others, are false prophets.
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