You're unhinged

[Rev. Rye]

First of all, thank you for the link.

Next, I want to stress a part of the article you posted:
"The study looked only at the correlation between beliefs and mental health and not at causality, so the study's take-away message is subject to interpretation."
(...) "We don't know whether it was the poorer mental health (anxiety, paranoia) that caused subjects to perceive God as punitive, or whether it was the view of God as punitive that caused the poor mental health," Dr. Robert Koenig (...) told The Huffington Post in an email."

I honestly think that we're more likely than anything else to create God in our own image. So, if these people are unhinged and want God to smite their enemies, they'll come up with a concept of God who's willing to do that.