Yeah. I mean I saw aspects of it in Eastern Orthodoxy but it was
uncommon, NEVER saw it in the Methodist church (or the Quaker,
Unitarian Universalist and Episcopals inbetween)...
...but my main exposure to the concept of a vengeful God has
been via anti-theists online over the past 27 years or so. [not
necessarily atheist, as I know anti-theists who are into New Age
stuff instead for example)
So, I was lucky I think. Like, the whole heaven and hell thing
when I was doing the Orthodoxy thing can be summed up like this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/The_Ladder_of_Divine_Ascent_Monastery_of_St_Catherine_Sinai_12th_century.jpg
and in the monastic writings (which were my main focus while I
was in it), all the stuff about demons and such were clearly
psychological, symbolic, allegorical, metaphorical. Direct
translations of 5th/6th century monastic texts (like in the
Philokalia) read almost like modern day self-help books.
