There's no such thing as a loving God

That's certainly a logical approach. There is a problem, however.

First of all, we do know there are supernatural forces at work, meaning forces that are the ones which actually generate Physics. Otherwise, there would be no Newton's first law of motion, second law of motion, etc..

Then we know we are very powerless, teeny entities, among billions of others, and it appears that at least the other mammals are "meter readers" of their organisms, and possibly other animals are as well, it boggles the mind how many "minions" there are to appease some obviously malevolent being.

However, the complete Satanic being, if it is one, would be even worse. Being roasted in constant pain, or an Eternity on a stake would be worse. It would not ever get better as people like to think. The idea that it isn't worse is just wishful thinking, and I confess I would like to think it as well.

Now, we have "omnipotent" as a criteria for a god. To the Gnostic, and I think most Christians lean a bit towards that idea, since the gospels and the entire bible confirm this as a book, to most Gnostics, this Universe is like a little box of which the Satan character got control via the fall. God is still omnipotent in the grand Universe, but this tiny little box in which he somehow fooled us into entering, is under a set of rules by which angels (most of which are really demons) pull the strings.

This is what I've observed as an objective observer. It's the only possible answer to the puzzle we know as Life.

How to get out of this box? Is it Jesus? Jesus actually says it's the Holy Ghost, which is the "truth" of the good God. Using the name of "Jesus" is nothing without the idea that it is the Holy Ghost. It isn't even how his name was pronounced when he was crucified. Not even close.

As a "meter reader" of an organism, it's natural to hope that it all ends with death, but you can't count on that. That would mean that you rely on some supernatural power to end your existence with the meter you read. Don't count on a hateful Satan character to do that.

Sure, he'll threaten the meter reader who only reads the meter of the Holy Ghost, to end his or her existence, but even that would be better than being under the thumb of Satan.

The "angels" in authority are spiritual, and when we read for the Holy Ghost, we can finally testify of them when we die from this "box" of an evil empire. All fallen angels are not yet in Hell in our timeline. We know this by experience. As you point out, it isn't a "good God" who does evil. That's a moron's belief. You obviously are intelligent, and on your way to higher truth, if you haven't already gotten there.

The bad thing about being "Gnostic", if it is the truth, is that it can't be organized in this life as a functioning institution by definition, since it acknowledges that the higher powers are against its truth. And we see this symptom throughout all of History. Hard to ignore.

So the gnostic still serves in a church that functions, but keeps thoughts to self for the most part. Satan and the demon angels use all their devices to divide Gnostics who band together.