I respect someone who says, "You have not shown me that God is good; you have only shown me that He insists on His way."
Can we really call what we preach "good news" is all we have to say is, "God has put you in a dreadful predicament but has kindly given you a way out." If that is the sum of the Gospel, then I can easily understand a man, and I mean "Man!", saying, well I'd rather suffer than abase myself before a bully.
Don't get me wrong, please. I think a certain kind of humiliation is essential to spiritual health and wholeness. I think that, since I am a subordinate creature, my joy is only to be found in submission to Him who made and saved me.
But we Christians in our various denominations have down a very bad job in persuasively portraying God as anything other than someone who comes to earth to say, "You all have broken a bunch of arbitrary rules that you didn't know you had to follow, but I will forgive you if you worship me."
It's not enough to say, But He's NOT a bully!" Why should MS not just say, "Why should I believe YOU?"
It's not enough to say, "But the Bible says [thus and such]," when his response will likely be, "That book is, according to you, nothing more than the words of the Great Bully. Even if I believed you and thought it was His Word (which I don't -- why should I believe YOU?), He's still a bully."
"No, you're wrong," has never struck me as a good answer. Not at the beginning of a conversation, anyway.
It strikes me as silly that any human would presume to judge God. He is God and can do as He pleases. Whether we like it or not is irrelevant.