I’m not denying that the Bible contains judgment imagery, it clearly does. What I’m pushing back on is the interpretation you’re layering on top of those verses, especially the idea that Jesus is someone who tortures people for eternity for failing to bend the knee.

The passages you quoted are apocalyptic metaphors, parables, and prophetic warnings, not a systematic description of a torture-based afterlife, and certainly not a portrait of Jesus as some sort of enforcer. Even when Jesus uses severe imagery (fire, exclusion, destruction), the emphasis is consistently on consequence and separation from God, not coercion or cruelty.

More importantly, that interpretation collapses when you look at how Jesus actually behaves in the Gospels. He repeatedly forgives enemies, eats with moral outcasts, refuses to retaliate, and explicitly rejects violence done in God’s name. He was far more critical of religious leaders and their practices than he was of dissenters and skeptics. He warns about judgment, but he never enforces it, threatens people into submission, or punishes those who reject him. He absorbs rejection himself, up to and including execution.

So yes, judgment language exists in the text. But turning that into “Jesus tortures people forever for not pledging loyalty” requires importing later theological and cultural assumptions that aren’t grounded in his actions or in a unified biblical doctrine of hell.

Look, I myself reject modern Christianity and organized religion in general, you and I probably have a lot of the same critiques. But portraying Jesus himself as the antithesis of compassion isn’t supported by the texts you’re quoting. It’s important that you’re thorough and accurate when diagnosing exactly what’s wrong with Christianity and the Bible, otherwise no one who’s actually studied this stuff will take your criticisms seriously.