How can I give approval to anyone I have no control over? People believe whatever they want to believe. My only objection is how do you search for something you don't know? What is God? How can you recognize God in a form, or word, or occurrence if you can't tell me what God is in his nature or essence?
We know that children are humans because we know what constitutes the essence of humanity (human nature). Once we know what is characteristic of human nature, what makes humans human, we can apply that quality to different forms and call them human. Essence before form!
If we cannot know what makes God God, and we cannot know that, then how can you tell what is from or of God, what is divine? Well, that's easy: people make up a definition and go from there. In other words, they make a "leap of faith."
But, just as Evangelicals are going to "save" infidels by making sure they die Christians, and as Catholics preach that all who are in heaven knowingly or not knowingly "became" Catholics in this lifetime, and as Muslims will either convert or kill those who refuse, it all comes to the same thing: those in heaven will be just like you!
Please accept my apologies; I didn't mean to say that you were giving tacit approval! Rather, if the Church took the ecumenical position to heart, it would grant such approval implicitly. Thereby releasing its control over its adherents.