My main gripe with the Christian religion has always been this.Yet being "good" based on love alone will still get you eternal torment if you don't accept Jesus - yes, that very Jesus who says you shouldn't be good out of fear.
Quite a contradiction there IMHO. The only way that the church (or any religion) can really teach that you should be good out of love is to take punishment off the table.
So it seems to me that people with no fear of eternal punishment in the afterlife - or the hope of a reward whether here on earth or in the afterlife - are the only people best motivated to do good just for the sake of doing good. Atheists who devote their life to good works would be tossed into the eternal pit of fire along with the billions of people who don't accept Jesus, according to the Christian church. That doesn't seem right or fair to me.
God created man in his own image, then set him up for failure. The default position for man is burning in a fiery eternal torment unless he actively seeks repentance for acting exactly like God programmed him to act. Regardless of whether he is a very good man, or an evil man. God comes close to being a kid with a magnifying glass and an anthill on a sunny day in this scenario.