Much of human behavior based on religious dogma and religious practices makes no humanly logical sense. And anyone who would argue with that is either a liar or a fool. At best, giving the masses the benefit of the doubt, most human behavior based on religion is the result of appeals to the passions of emotional thinkers whose sensibility has been co-opted by religious and political power-brokers who were and are wiling to take advantage of emotional thinkers.
Human behavior begs the question: will God forgive lies, stupidity, murder and other massive bad behavior even when it is done in His Name? Or is it simply true that rape, wars, ethnic cleansing , and murder by fire, sword, lions, guns and bombs is what our Creator requires of the various hoards of men who destroy humanity and Planet Earth in His Name--all calling to Him by different names.
Most human beings who spread lies and pain in the name of God are much more likely to abuse and murder the people who do not believe in lies that harm the world than they are likely to abuse and kill the people who do not believe in truth that heals the world.
Does God condone the behavior and politics of the religious right who believe it is in the best interest of God and America for them to censor, deny rights, or otherwise punish everyone who doesn't share their beliefs and prejudices, and act on the same lies they believe or merely spew for feelings of superiority and for political gain?
Did God really tell Joshua to bring down the walls of Jericho and to kill every man, woman, and child within the walls of that city? Does God really need hit men and religious assassins to destroy a people when an all powerful omnipotent creator is very capable of doing that Himself if that were His wont?
Or is God more like the Symbiotic God of Eve's Garden who requires behavior defined by Eve's simple Realities? Pehaps Eve's Beautiful Daughters are the women who can form a functioning sisterhood that saves humanity from destruction.
Is God like Joshua's God and the God of the ill-named Christian right? Or is God more like the God Of Jesus Christ? If God is more like the God of the so called Christian right and not the God of Jesus Christ, then humanity cannot be saved. And the extinction of the human species on Earth is inevitable
