Then you are very optimistic!
It seems that you believe that everyone is part and parcel of God and that God wants every living being to be happy and that there is no eternal damnation.
That's optimistic!
Most religions disagree with you on this, of course.
I don't see what that has to do with the notion that god requires the use of people to achieve his goals or the sun has a requirement of solar powered torches in order to make its self visible.
Does God ever use people to achieve His goals?
Is a guru someone who is used by God to achieve His goals?
If an angry Muslim attacks you for being a kafir: How do you know it is not God using this angry Muslim to achieve His goal?
And if you believe He is: Shouldn't you surrender to the Muslim then, letting him kill you? And if this angry Muslim kills your family and friends but spares you, should you not refrain from reporting him to the authorities? He has done no wrong, has he?
No, the issue of killing in the name of God is unique and has no adequate analogy in the material world.
The analogy is how the discussion becomes meaningless unless we assign established categories. For instance a discussion of "Does Colonialism extend cultural tropes" only becomes meaningful when we start citing actual colonial powers : eg French, British, or even Tongian if you want to distinguish colonialism from mere immigration or whatever.
As far as theism is concerned, is has not been established, objectively, which religion is the right one.
This is why no clear categorization is possible, so far.
Psychological manipulation is again not the same thing as having one's ideas challenged.
The line between the two is not clear.
And then the ordinary shunning and isolating of those who do not seem to fit in even though they have not overtly broken any rules. It is very violent.
So we have gone from "what if a theist demands my land?" to "what if a theist ignores me?"
It is sometimes said that social isolation is the worst punishment for a person.
Isolation takes on even more important implications in religious settings.
Religious communities threaten their members and newcomers with excommunication. Many people who do not seem to fit in even though they have not overtly broken any rules, are shunned and isolated by their fellow religionists, which often leads to the shunned person leaving on their own as the situation becomes unbearable, without there being any official act of expulsion.
Being shunned by one's religious fellows effectively means that one's chances to ever come to God lessen dramatically.
You don't think this is violent?
Killing in the name of god (as opposed to killing in the name of occupational duty) is as unique as illuminating the sun with a solar powered torch (ie what to speak of both having no requirement for it, both empower it) or jumping off a cliff because some one told to you (performed by easily impressionable persons who are not too sharp)
When theists kill in the name of God: is this not their occupational duty?
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