Well the Vatican has done a great job in making peiple think that is what Christianty is when infact it's nothing of the same. God isn't mean, God is graceful and long suffering, He became a man and laid his life down and shed his blood for mankind because we are such wretched, dark and wicked beings that are full of sin. It's only our self righteous pride that blocks out the fact that we are the "mean" and evil ones, while God is good and Holy and righteous. God cannot let sin enter heaven, he must punish sin because he is righteous, hell wasn't created for man it was created for the Devil and his angles. We send ourselves to hell by rejecting Gods grace. It was a free gift that Jesus has has given man that if we Believe the Gospel, Jesus blood washes us clean forever and then we are eternally sealed and go to heaven all because of what Jesus did. NOTHING we do can get us to heaven, our righteousness is as filthy rags before God. That's what religion tries to do, they think if they be good and do good deeds and all these works, then they can bribe God. Only by Jesus Christ can we enter eternal life. It's up to YOU to recieve his grace or reject it.