Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

I've always been curious why monotheist religions assume that God means well?

It's only fair that I follow-up....

My dog thinks I'm a God. I am obviously way smarter, I tell it what it should do, I provide for it, feed it. I can perform "miracles", such as unlocking a gate, or making that big machine with wheels go. To some animals, such as chickens, the analogy might even be stronger, because we breed them and thus in some sense "create" them (at least from their point of view). They have no way of seeing much beyond their immediate observations and we are as close to a God as they can imagine.

However, we don't always mean well for them. In the case of the dog, yes of course most of us mean well. But maybe not - for instance, some people raise dogs for dog fighting. And most chickens are raised for eating. When other humans rescue dogs from a life of dog fighting, we often see appalling conditions in which the animals are raised.

Suppose that the being that Christians call "God" (presuming He exists) isn't really a god at all, but is actually just a superior being who is raising us for some nefarious reason. Naturally he would give us orders and tell us what we need to do. He could perform miracles as evidence of His stature. How would we know whether He is actually the God he says he is? Some pretty awful stuff has been going on here -- maybe someday some other similar being will come along and arrest our "God" for whatever bad thing he has been doing with us? Maybe the universe is our "pen" and we just aren't smart enough to unlock the gate and escape?