In debates about worldviews, different people tend to frame those that rival theirs the most negative way possible. Atheists are probably familiar with hearing something like this given as a description of theirs:
You were not created
for any purpose. There is no meaning behind the fact that you exist.
It was the result of blind, natural forces which cannot know or care
about your life. When you die, it will be the end. Briefly, the
memory of you and whatever achievements your life had may remain. Yet
these will also cease to exist in time, until all is gone. It will as
if you never even existed at all then. All that, in the span of a
moment or less in cosmic time. While you live, it may seem as if your
actions are free, but this is an illusion. You are no less the puppet
of the natural forces than anything else. Morals too are only
creations of the human mind, arbitrary and changeable. Indeed, ever
changing. Whatever you do is judged only by other people. There is no
ultimate judge that will hold anyone to account if they evade merely
human justice. Do what you can manage to get away with, while still
living. What else is there?
Yet in truth, an equally unpalatable description can be offered of theism (and sometimes is), such as:
God made the
universe according to his will. No drop of rain falls or bird flies
but as he has it. Human beings are given free will, to choose either
good or evil. Yet this is not the sole criteria for their salvation,
but also worship of God. He who is all-knowing and all-powerful still
requires praise by the creatures that in contrast to him are mere
specks of dust. With his foresight, he knew which of them by
circumstance as much as choice were doomed to Hell. He created them
anyway though, knowing fell well this would be the vast majority.
Their punishment is eternal, an endless torment of the soul. Many
religions came and went, spreading beliefs that were false that led
millions astray, as permitted by God. People are rebuked that a
wholly loving being clearly made the world, filled with myriad
torments for them while living, from diseases to earthquakes or
floods that laid waste nations. All these of course will pale in
comparison with the suffering that awaits most in the next life. The
“good” meant by the word when applied to God has no bearing on
that for humans, clearly, nor indeed anything living. Life feeds upon
life, and all decays to death. Yet at least plants and animals simply
die, with no further pain. For humans is reserved the most awful fate
imaginable in the main, because they are corrupt as their creator
knew they would be. When a flaw in design can be detected, look to
the designer. Yet humanity was created sick, and commanded to be
well.
A caricature can never be a substitute for addressing people's actual views.