Benevolent Creator God?

[Angrboda]

The mother of a murdered child watching the murderer being tortured will eventually cry 'enough', even if it takes a trillion years. The God you proclaim never thinks its enough.

The punishment has to be infinite or else you can't control people with the doctrine. Let's say the punishment was 1 million years... well, then people would think, "eh whatever, at least it'll end." Then once that happens-- oops! You can't control people any longer. There is a method to crafting fictional afterlives. The purpose is controlling people. Making them fear the unknown. The human mind can't comprehend death. Fertile soil.

Religion takes what we think about the world and turns it up to 11. The smartest, most moral, most powerful, most knowledgable. It is an ideal.