The Great Transfer - Theists of the world, disband!

I don't think that God could ever unite people under one religion, without constant intervention at every level.

I'll explain my point; let's say that God appears at the Olympics and says to everyone "I want to unite you all under my name, to spread peace throughout the globe. So, stop hating one another, treat alternative sexualities equally and give women full equal rights, including over their own body."

Mass media coverage would ensue and everywhere we would see the images of The Lord. Church leaders would appear on every possible program and they would rejoice.

Temporarily.

After a few days, though, people would start to argue about how we should follow the Lord's words; the Muslims would say we should unite under Islam, the Christians Christianity, the Jews would say Judaism etc.... Arguments would break out that would become wars and we would not match God's intentions in the slightest. The problem being that all three of those major religions come from the same Abrahamic roots and so they would be entirely inseparable.

And so we would end up in all out Holy War and God would be in heaven doing /facepalm.

He would, therefore, have to break in during every conversation in order to make sure that we didn't misinterpret his words. Because we would always apply our own prejudices, beliefs and convictions to whatever was said.

This would probably also apply to the comments about homosexuals and women; religious bigots would say that he had been speaking figuratively or something like that so that they could continue to oppress as they had done before.

So, religious unity, not an option. Atheistic unity though, may be, but we'd only be united in our disbelief in God; we'd almost certainly find other creative ways to hate one another.

If we are made in God's image, he must seriously always fight with Jesus and the Holy Ghost.