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and we must be ever-vigilant for those charlatans

But how do we identify them? When someone says God commands us to wipe out the (random ethnic group), how do we know to not listen to him? What makes one person's interpretation of God's will any more plausible than anyone else's?

The intention and the results.
No one came here believing the Natives were enemies, but they slaughtered them anyway. Why? To steal their land. But they CALLED it Divine Providence.

The Israelites were ordered to kill off their enemies. They didn't out of compassion. Now they pick baby parts out of infant strollers in public malls murdered by the ancestors of the people they allowed to live.

So you tell me, kid. What is the difference between the slaughter of Celts, Druids, Jews, Witches....in the name of one god, but not the G-d I believe in? The results.

What is the difference between the slaughter of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, and Jews by the Islamic god, those people the G-d of Abraham chose to weed out, but was disobeyed? The results. See, they are killing Christians and atheists too.
Conscience. Where is it?