God doesn't follow the Golden Rule

[Chad32]

Nobody chose hell. No one made him create it, or mandate that people who disagree with him go to a place of suffering. This is blackmail. It's like people choosing to burn alive in a bonfire I made because they refused to worship me. Or they chose to have their business ransacked and burned because they didn't pay their protection money.

We don't send ourselves to hell because we're not the ones who set this contrived system up. Not only that but there's a serious lack of evidence. If my dad wanted me to do something, he made damn sure I knew everything I needed t know. He didn't give me a diary he wrote, or tell someone else to tell me what he wanted. He walked over and told me in person.

No one makes God do anything, God created hell to punish the sinful, He wasn't going to allow the sinful into His heaven. There is no blackmail, it's your excuse to reject God, which by the way your chose to spend eternity away from Him, thus you choose hell.
You have no authority to judge someone in that capacity, so you might as well put out your bonfire. No one has the right to demand protection money, they have no authority over a business owner.
God is creator and in that capacity has the right, period.
Your dad also punished you if you didn't do what he told you, that was his right through his authority over you.

GC

You're right. No one made god do it. So he has no excuse for doing it, and punishing someone eternally for limited sin is wrong on multiple levels. Just because someone made something doesn't give them all right to abuse it. That's why we have child protection laws. That's why people would be looked down on for building houses just to burn them down.

Maybe my dad was justified in his punishments, but there's never any debate over whether or not my dad exists, or what exactly he wants me to do. also more importantly, he's not still beating me with a belt for getting an F on my report card. He does not torture me daily because I refuse to let him run my life.

God is often spoken of as a parent, but a parent's job is to eventually alow their children to have lives of their own where they're independant. Your deity just wants slaves. If he wants a relationship with me, he has to meet me half way. That's the only way that healthy relationships work.

No one has a right to own any free thinking being. Be it natural or supernatural. Most civilized countries have grown out of that. Inclusing USA, which the religious often say is a christian nation. A recent thread about people getting sick from eating grass is a good example of the harmful mentality that religion imposes on people. When you can convince an adult to do something they know is harmful to them is when your beliefs need a serious reevaluation.