And so your benevolent all-forgiving god, but low self-esteem god who needs to be worshiped, will condemn him to eternal damnation for asking questions that your own god gave him the gift of intellect? Isn't that how it works? God gives all?
Great god you got there. And exactly where is god going to send Hawking to? Purgatory? Hell? Oblivion? The moon circling Alpha Centauri? You don't know, do you? No one knows. I believe in something bigger. You take all your religions and shove them. They have been the cause of too much misery on this rock.
There is life after death. There is a God. He’s not your enemy.