Is that God or a tyrant?

Totalitarian self-conceptions are largely teleological. The tyrant is less a person than an indispensable function to guide and reshape the universe.

— Authoritarianism and totalitarianism

The devil loves his children. Does God love us all, or judge us and send down floods and fire and brimstone?

Does he kill the gays, the atheists, the satanists and the Dalai Llama or welcome them into his kingdom?

How do you tell?