I'm really loving this series, Stan.

Todays's episode brings up the question of people who commit heinous crimes because "God told me to do it".

How do you, in your mind, differentiate between God telling Abraham (as one example - but I could also have used a number of mass slaughters perpetrated by the invading Israelis into the Promised Land)
and, say, the mother who drowns her children in the bathtub because "God told her to" (I am too lazy to look up the reference but can assure you that it was an actual reported event in your country. In my own country we had a psychotic travelling in a bus decapitate a fellow passenger on "God's" instructions.

Getting down to the personal, I do not support any national or international level of government - but not on the "God told me to do it" level of justification but because they offend my conscience and critical thinking by their claims vs actions. I consider myself to be a Sovereign Individual that may delegate some of my sovereignty, at my discretion, to those I so choose (not those chosen for me). My allegiance is only to my own conscience directing my critical thinking - which is probably how I communicate or come into harmony with what you may be calling "God".