> 2. Do you follow the edict that if you’re not baptist then by definition you go to hell? How do you reconcile this with having friends or anyone at all you care about who are then going to hell?

I'm not a Baptist, but presumably nearly all of them find it sad and unfortunate and feel compassion for most of humanity.

I'm not sure what you're getting at, though. Only believing things that make you happy isn't a very good philosophy of life.