Insane Divine, I don't quote the post because I take it as a whole and I completely understand the problem. See, even in the religion I was born in, we have a book (Bible) that was written by those who claim to have written God's words. You will find a lot of things - like in any religious scripture- that reflects the times when the words got written.
Someone here wrote about a religion giving rules how to live and I think that is correct... the scriptures are either like stories told and/or a guide for behaviour. But that doesn't mean that this are God's words in reality. The ten commandments Moses got, the requests Mohammed made written down, the guidelines the Gita gives... they got put in words by human beings but I'm sure, a universal force (or God, Allah or Krishna) gave the thoughts (quasi spoke to them) to help mankind in guiding their life in a positive sense... he may also have given warnings about the consequences when not following the positive path by making clear that negative forces will always try to get the upperhand and that humans are prone to follow more the negative/destroying forces because nature gave them both and that the bad will always try to topple the good.
However, humans with power-wishes rather quickly got what a religion gave them to influence others to get what they wanted either for themselves or for a community... and that was the start of all the interpretations done and written down, be it the Bible or the Quran... maybe less the Gita because, for Hindus, God was more prevalent in exceptional human beings and their avatars... it's something that I can the best relate to as it is the closest to my own - quite childlike - vision of an omnipresent spiritual benevolent force 
Edited by Clochette - 22 hours ago
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