When Lucifer eventually displeased God, at least according to John Milton's telling of it, God cast him out of heaven the same way he cast Adam & Eve out of the Garden of Eden. But that was about it.
God did not declare emphatically that "monotheism" is the one true perspective on god, and then set up an inquisition shortly thereafter to torture and kill anyone, or even any angel, who dared to question His authority as God.
But that's pretty much the very opposite of what the Catholic Church did, and what every religion has ever done. Indeed, since the days of Noah and Sodom and Gomorrah, apparently no God has ever taken it upon himself or herself, to directly instruct his "beloved children" on how He or She wants them to behave. This is true whether we are killing each other in World Wars, with atom bombs, or committing genocides every time He turns around.
In fact, the only way the Catholic Church has ever acted like God is when, to protect its own earthly power, it decided not to warn anyone about how its own priests and nuns were raping children, in the same way God decided not to warn anyone that King Herod the Great, in a similar attempt to protect his own earthly power, was going to murder all of the male children in the vicinity of Bethlehem.
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