A God who can drive a straw through a tree with a tornado should be respected.
Yes, but children of God respect God’s Word and take it for what it is, not replace it with our worldly human hopes and desires.
I may want to believe in fairies and unicorns, but I must restrict my beliefs to the reality of the Bible, God’s Law Word.
If the Bible says murder is a sin, and the Bible says unrepentent sinners are bound for a lake of fire, then I will not attempt to split hairs and get around those words, because I wish that some sodomite mathematician is in heaven typing on his computer glorying in his perversions.
1 Corinthians 6:9 “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,”
Ultimately God only knows, so I prefer to not waste my time speculating as to the eternal destination of souls of men of dubious character; I instead simply place my trust in the truth of Scripture and let it be my rule and guide in life.
America and every nation, however, would do well to bow the knee to Christ and Covenant with God; base their civil law on the perfectly righteous and just moral Law of God, and start using due legal process to prosecute criminals.
Matthew 6:10 “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”