Does Religion Cause Hate, or does Hate Abuse Religion?

At no point do you justify why god does not want us to believe different things.

yes, I did. If God gave us rules to live by, why would he want us not to all understand them correctly? If I had a set of rules, it's a set of rules, it's not a set of rules I want people to interpret for themselves, leaving the chance that some will assume they're doing what I wish, but not actually succeeding.

allowing for some people to interpret homosexuality as not OK, is a short term issue that may be a stepping stone for some future result.

There isn't any scripture or writing that backs this assertion. It's completely some sort of made up assumption. You're stating that God leaving his wants ambiguous us a stepping stone. Why? What evidence do you have? You just made an outlandish statement and pass it off as fact or something with a great probability.

I'm pretty sure I have a good enough grasp on logic, claiming this while not pointing any actual logical contradiction is just a smokescreen.

what logical argument have you made. You've claimed God left his rules open for interpretation, bc you somehow know that, which is illogical. You asked why would God want everyone to believe the same thing, I gave an argument why. Why would he want everyone to be operating on a different set of rules based on how the interpretation that he placed into these people at their creation, then judge them on it?

It is not absurd, so much so that it is not impossible for that to happen.

Absurd doesn't meant that something is impossible. It means ridiculous. It's ridiculous to think that a sane person who believes in one God would think that murder is wrong based on a mystical interpretation that was embedded in him during his conception while another person would follow the same God and that God gave him the exact opposite interpretation upon conception.

You must be confused, I've made no such argument with you(or anyone else), nor do I intend to.

The original comment I replied to was that the bible was very similar to Sharia Law. I pointed out an illogical, bat shit crazy passage that resembles Sharia Law. You complained that my comment was the exact wrong (which I even hinted at the fact that I was paraphrasing), and it wasn't. From there more arguments arose, but all of them are basically you saying God has this grand plan, which I think is a farce, and outside of saying that we little people don't have the capacity to understand his grand plan you've given little to no argument.

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