Personally, I'd love to see some American evangelical Christian leader (and his one true God, of course) duke it out with some Imam (and his one true God, naturally) and leave the rest of us out of it.
As for me, I'm perfectly content to look up and see only sky. That means no gods in some supposed Heaven, or on Mount Olympus, and no chariots OF the gods, either.
Well in this morning’s paper we read of a very commonplace occurrence in the world of Islam. A nine year old Muslim girl in Afghanistan was beheaded by some other Muslim band of fanatical believers because they did not like the way that nine year old girl believed… or was it dressed?
My point is this. 21st century man is far more educated and civilized than mankind was in the middle ages and dark ages. Most ideologies do not settle their differences by torturing or killing their opponents. The one exception appears to be Islam. There are still hundreds of thousands or millions of roving bands of devils killing in the name of Allah or Muhammad. If there is a God above it cannot be found in Islam. Because God would never allow His one true religion to turn out such an enormous fringe element that is the antithesis of love and kindness. Maybe mankind had to work things out (more brutally) a thousand years ago because life was so harsh and difficult and survival was the name of the game. But now that we have all progressed we are able to work out our differences in a much more kinder and reasonable ways.
Except for Islam. Their god or their “inspired word” has spawned devils galore who thrive on murder and hate.
So you can rule out Islam. You can rule out the Greek mythological god Zeus, the Roman god Jupiter, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster because no one ever took those pretend types seriously. Hindu gods and Buddhism and animism and Eastern gods and native tribal gods all lack empirical evidence for their existence. That is, if anyone was ever serious enough to do an honest study.
So that leaves Judaism and Christianity. If you choose to lump them in with all the rest, well that is your choice. But in Hosea 4:6 their God says “my people perish for lack of knowledge.”