" But if there really is a God, and it indeed operates on the basis of sending everyone who doesn't choose to subscribe to 2000 year old rumours to hell as punishment for our skepticism"

But that is not Christianity.  That is what those hostile to religion like to believe to sneer at it.  My own Catholic faith teaches that everyone gets to heaven eventually, though some may need a long spell in purgatory to get the hate out of them.  And the 7 day creation is a metaphor for a creation process humans cannot fathom.  Try investigating religion with an open mind instead of convincing yourself you are an expert on a country while having never visited it.