But people are not forced into it with threats of eternal punishment.
Whichever religion it is, the typical one or the atypical, whether the threat is of eternal punishment or something else, it all boils down to whether one chooses to succumb to those threats or not.
People are indoctrinated as children. Overcoming the threats later on in life is very difficult.
Difficult is not impossible.
And most of than not, nothing that is really worth,... is easy.