Saying this to an religious fanatic

[Doubting Thomas]

The answer I would have given way back when I still believed would be that god doesn't send anyone to hell. They send themselves from being sinful.

God gave his only begotten son to save you from that fate. Like throwing a life preserver to a drowning person. Just grab it.

And my question in response would by why worship a god who sets up a system in which sending everyone to hell is the default position (since God made us imperfect and sinful) unless we accept this Jesus fellow? It's like extortion. Or better yet, it's like an abusive boyfriend holding a gun to a woman's head and saying "Marry me or I'll kill you." Believe in Jesus or suffer eternal punishment. And one could argue that a loving god would never create such a place as Hell.

For some reason, Christians want to squirm out of the idea that God created Hell, yet according to Christian mythology before God created everything there was nothing. Hell didn't create itself.

But God created it and created the system which sends every soul there unless they happen to be one of the lucky few who chooses the right building to go to on Sunday morning.