[Serious] What God's justification for eternal torment?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Agreed.  The other side to that coin is that a faith based on hope is equally misguided.  Pay me tomorrow for a burger today?  Nope.

It's an interesting question.  What is my faith based on?  
Fear ?  (of a worse tomorrow)  
Hope ? (for a better tomorrow) 
Culture ?  (that's just the way we do it around here)  
An experience ?  (Think I really had an experience from divine)  
Superiority/inferiority complex?  (Make a system that favours me and put everyone else down?) 


I can't think of any other basis for having a faith off the top of my head

Option #4. The vast majority of religious people are religious due to cultural inertia. While there are religious converts, they constitute a statistically insignificant minority.

Boru