We are provably created beings with free will, conscience, and reasoning abilities. We come to Earth to engage those gifts to become better beings.

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None of that has anything to do with man-made religions. It's about us, individually, not us as a member of a flock following religious leaders, doctrines, and holy books.
 
The harsh reality of the current Middle East conflict is that it's justified by the Bible, the guidebook of the Abrahamic religions-- Judaism, Christianity, Islam. All three religions think their conflicts with one another are in fulfillment of Bible prophecy and necessary for their end-time beliefs.
 
Such war horrors gladden the hearts of all the prophets of doom and their followers.
 
Jews think they are the chosen people to inherit Earth. Christians think they are. Muslims think they are. They all think the Bible was written by the Creator of the universe for them and should be obeyed to the letter.
 
As for the horrors of war, the Bible sets the precedent (law) for believers to emulate and obey.
 
But the Creator, the author of love and justice, has nothing to do with what the Bible god does or demands:
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• Killed all of humanity except 8 adults in a horrific flood as a lesson on morality. The estimated toll was as much as 4 billion people, including innocent infants, children, adults, and animals. (Genesis 6-9)

• Kills the firstborn humans, including innocent infants, children, and animals of the entire Egyptian nation, and then commanded that the slaughter be celebrated yearly as Passover. (Exodus 12; 14; Romans 9:17)

• Kills people for making an ointment, burning incense, taking a census (75,000 slaughtered), for not cutting the ends of young boys' penises off, or eating fat. (Exodus 30:33; 2 Chronicles 26:19-;1Chronicles 21; Torah)

• Forced innocent children to wander and die in a wilderness for forty years because of the sins of the parents. (Numbers 14:33)

• Commands killing unbelievers. (Deuteronomy 13; 2 Kings 10)

• Condemned to leprosy children, their children, and a king who burned incense. (2 Chronicles 26:19-)

• Orders that young boys who disobey or curse their parents be stoned to death. (Exodus 21:17; Deuteronomy 21:18-21)

• Starved people, opened the earth to swallow them when they desired to eat, and then sent a plague to kill 14,700 more who complained about it. (Numbers 16)

• Killed people for working or gathering sticks on the Sabbath, and for profaning it. (Numbers 15:32-36: Exodus 31:14,15)

• Induced snakes to bite people and sent bears out of the woods to tear apart forty-two children who called a man "baldhead." (2 Kings 2:23,24)

• Sent a famine that forced people to eat their children, and beheaded seventy innocent sons and put their heads in a pile as a lesson. (2 Kings 6:28-)

• Tells men to kill their wives (even if pregnant), children, and friends if they disagree with them on religion, commands no mercy be given, and is wrathful if lives are spared. (Deuteronomy 13:6-; Exodus 32:27)

• Condoned Jael lying to a man and driving a tent peg into the man's temple while he slept. (Judges 4:17-21)

• Condemned victims for ten generations if they have mutilated sex organs or are of illegitimate birth. (Deuteronomy 23:1-)

• Is partial to one race and keeps them in good graces if they commit murder, bash babies to the ground, and rip open pregnant women. (Exodus 22:20; Hosea 13:16; Joshua 10:1-42; 1 Samuel 15:3)

• Condones the practice of incest, adultery, genocide, sexism, keeping concubines (300 for Solomon), keeping and beating slaves (with the only limitation being to not injure their eyes or teeth). (Genesis 19; 20; 28; 29; Exodus 21; . . . throughout Torah)

• Commands the killing of adulterers and non-virgins brought to marriage. (Deuteronomy 22:20-)

• Commanded Jews to slaughter entire cities and to steal all their goods, kill and maim the animals, but keep alive the young virgin maidens to rape for their pleasure. (Deuteronomy 2:34; 3:6; 13; Judges 21; Numbers 31)

• The Bible god equates love with having himself in the form of Jesus sacrificially tortured to death. Guilt for this is collectivized by demanding that all people be responsible for the torture that was necessary to make amends for an original sin for which all humans but Adam and Eve had no part, but for which all of humanity is condemned to eternal torture in hell if they don't agree. (Genesis 3; Romans 5:12,14;1John 1:8-10).

 
 
More random windows into the deeds and commands of the Bible god

• Deuteronomy 20:16-- save nothing alive that breathes
• Numbers 31:17-- kill every little boy and every woman who has had intercourse
• Deuteronomy 3:6-- completely destroy every city, man, woman, and child
• 1Samual 15:3--smite, destroy, slay, spare nobody including infant and suckling child
• Psalms 137:8,9-- make it a happy occasion to seize infants and dash them against the rocks
• Following this example, doing the Bible god's work, Christian Spanish Conquistadors bashed baby's heads and fed them to dogs.

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• Joshua 8:25-- 12,000 men and women slaughtered
• Deuteronomy 20:10-- make war against those not willing to be enslaved      
• Leviticus 26:15--bring sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy sight and drain life
• Deuteronomy 32:23--heap disasters, shoot arrows, starve, send pestilence, plague, wild beasts, and venom of vipers
• Deuteronomy 32:39-- kill and wound
• Isaiah 66:4 --bring their fears upon them
• Jeremiah 18:11-- prepares a disaster and devises a plan against people
• 2kings 21:12-- bringing calamity and wiping people out as one wipes out a bowl and turns it upside down
• Isaiah 31:2-- bring disaster, the one he helps will fall, both will perish together
• Jeremiah 32:42-- brought great calamity on the people
• Jeremiah 35:17-- bringing disaster
• 2Samual 5:8-- commands killing lame and blind
• 1Samuel 18:27-- commands killing 200 and taking their foreskins
• 1 and 2 Samuel-- praises a soldier who kills tens of thousands, beheads, and cuts off foreskin trophies
• Leviticus 26:29; 2kings 6:27,29; Jeremiah 19:9; 2kings 6:27,29; Lamentations 4:9,11--forces people to cannibalize their children
• Jeremiah 44:2-- brought disaster, laid cities to ruins and desolation because they burned incense
• Jeremiah  45:5-- demolish what was built, uproot what was planted, bring disaster on every living creature, kill as a war spoil
• Lamentations 3:38-- sends calamities
• Jeremiah 1:14--disaster will be poured out on all who live
• Jeremiah 11:11-- will bring a disaster they cannot escape and their cries will be ignored
• Jeremiah 11:17-- has anger because of incense and therefore brings disaster
• Jeremiah 11:22-- punish them, young men will die by sword, sons and daughters starved
• Psalms 78:49-- unleashed anger, wrath, indignation, hostility
• 2Kings 17:25-- sent lions to kill them
• Judges 3:20--a word resulted in a knife plunged into a person's belly
• Numbers 11:1-- sent a fire to consume those who complained about hardship
• Numbers 16:32-- opens the Earth to swallow people into a pit of fire
• Numbers 16: 45,46-- consume them in an instant and send a plague
• Numbers 25:1-9-- anger burns, hangs them, kill all, kills 24,000 with a plague
• Genesis 38:7, 10-- slays sons
• 1Samual 6:19-- slays seventy for looking in a box
• 2Samual 6:8-- slays Nathan for trying to stop the box from tipping over
• Numbers 1:51-- will execute for getting near the Tabernacle
• Exodus 19:12-- orders executions by arrow or stone for getting too close to a mountain
• Joshua 24:19-- a jealous god who will not forgive
• Jeremiah 27:8,10,15-- punish with sword, famine, plague, banish, kill
• Jeremiah 4:10;20-- lies and deceives
• Ezekiel 14:9-- I have deceived
• Ezekiel 20:24--sacrifice every firstborn in the fire to devastate them
• 1Kings 21: 21-23-- condones lying and deception and punishes with disaster for it
• Psalms 47:2-- is a terrible oppressive lord
• 2 Corinthians 5:11-- terror of the lord
• Hebrews 10:31-- the lord is a fearful thing
• Jeremiah 48:10--cursed for keeping the sword back from blood

 
If you would like to see how the quotes above are defended as just and righteous by a Bible believer and what can be said in response, go here.
 
These two have no religious or Bible impediments to loving one another.

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Words of Wisdom:
Reason and conscience are the classroom of the Creator; faith and belief are the playground of evil.