Do you think God is authoritarian?

[Mister Agenda]

either posits a deistic parent who coldly abandons his children, or else an arbitrary and distant dictator who looks upon the suffering he permitted and dispenses occasional favours to his chosen when the fancy takes him.

These are not the only choices. 

Classical theism, which has deep roots in Plato, is very different. 

https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2010/09...heism.html

If classical theism was the theism of the majority of American Christians, much would be different.