Christians. Could you be wrong?

[Mister Agenda]

SO the only way to avoid getting tortured by God, is to worship him. You seriously don't see anything wrong with that?

Yea, I actually do see something wrong with that. By if God was being fair we would all be going to Hell. Instead God offers eternal lfe for nothing, so I praise and thank him everyday for it.

You know there are some possible alternatives to paradise or hell, right? What about painless extinguishment?

Here's the reason I think that's not an option for God: he's imaginary, and his iron-age followers imagined him to be similar to the Oriental potentates of the time who ruled harshly, and then Jesus came along to invent hell, the ultimate motivator to get shy followers to prosyletize aggressively (they'll burn forever if you don't save them!). I can admire it as a ruthless marketing tool.

But it's kind of silly to think the omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, sane creator of the universe values worship and belief without evidence, or thinks finite crimes deserve infinite punishment. Since the iron age, most of us have come to think that if God with a capital G were real, he isn't a petty despot at heart.