My point is that Christians don't get to enjoy an assumption that they don't wish for the suffering of others.

There's a kernel of hatred at the core of the religion, by way of "source of all moral truth also insists that some people will be sentenced to extreme suffering for not believing the same".

In my experience, and unsurprising given the discrimination at the very core of the belief system - the vast majority of Christians (American ones, regardless of political persuasion or even voting record) are more than happy to let that seed grow and express itself in various ways.

Your point seems to have ended with "one group of those are very vocal about that hatred" and also "there are some good Christians".

Okay.

Those are weak uninteresting points. They certainly don't justify any assumption of Christian good will. Much like any assumption of some kind of "benevolent imperialism" by the cultural "West" is thoroughly behind us today, so is any such assumption. Christians have had ample time to emphasize what matters about their Christianness and they have done so. The evidence speaks for itself.

I'm really glad you're picking and choosing the good parts of the Bible even if you're in the minority. However, if you want to talk about Matthew 25 he describes hell multiple times and describes it as Eternal torture, ETERNAL fire, weeping, gnashing of teeth etc. That's torture forever.

For eternity. Let's take an example of a very bad person, Adolf Hitler. He was really bad. Let's say he went to hell for being really bad. According to you, he may have accepted god's grace and gotten into heaven but let's say he didn't. Does he deserve eternal torture? According to the Bible, your vengeful God very much wants to torture bad people at let's say I agree with that. I could agree that Hitler should be tortured for 100 years, maybe you think 100,000 years is not appropriate, but even for Hitler eternity feels very excessive to me. After a certain amount of time he would not even remember what he's being tortured for. At least let him go into the nothingness of the void at some point.

So based on Matthew 25, your example, and the thought experiment above you have a few choices.

• The Bible is not the word of God and therefore can be thrown out. This is a great one because you can still be a good person but you don't have to go through all of the mental gymnastics you're going through to try and justify all the terribly evil things in there.

• You are a blasphemer who is actively lying to people about your holy text in order to convince them, or maybe yourself, that parts of it do not exist or can be interpreted as the exact opposite of what it says.

• You truly believe that someone, no matter how bad, deserves eternal torment. To be tortured forever. In that case I can confidently say that your morals are bankrupt and we can stop this conversation immediately because your moral foundation is completely flawed. Also important to point out that that foundation is a direct result of your religion and you could be much better without it. The world would be better without it as well.

• Last choice is God works in mysterious ways so even though none of this looks good at all you can just continue on with your fingers in your ears and say that it's not the religion's problem, it's just some people. There's that toxic version of faith where you get to do whatever you want no matter how incongruent and even with the best intentions it causes cognitive dissonance and psychosis. This is what happens with the vast majority of religious people no matter which one it is. It's the reason religion is innately harmful and should be abolished.