The fear of God is different. where religion kills and discriminates, God loves and brings together. But we willingly covered our ears to God’s call and close our ears to His help wanted signs and relationship. Serving and loving God, simply means serving and loving one another because you can’t see God. So if we’re really looking for God we will be shocked when we see people killing each other because of their religious beliefs or ostracising each other because of their differences in denominations.
But we’re not shocked because in actual fact, we aren’t looking for God.
A lot of countries in Africa has been torn apart because of religious sentiments. Some have entered into serious war and conflict; countries like Sudan, Somalia, etc. In Nigeria for example; sometimes because of political campaigns, fights for unity of the country. We do make some statements like; we all worship the same God. Let’s stop deceiving ourselves; we don’t worship the same God. The Muslim see the Christian as a heathen and the same applies to the Christians and other religions.