Is Life really all about a God that demands total submission?

In one of Bob Dylan's Christian songs, he says to God, "You have explained every mystery, what can I do for you?"
So I say to myself, "What? What mystery did Jesus explain?
The religious answer is "everything."
He explained everything.
Basically the Christian says, "God made everything. He gives you free will.
He has the power to shape and create matter and events, so, whatever you don't understand, Jesus, or God, or Allah are responsible for, or the Devil or guardian angels.
Turning it over to God, or as Carrie Underwood so eloquently and movingly put it, "Jesus take the wheel", is in some respects eqivalent to the Taoist practices of non discriminatory  perception.
It can be helpful in the sense of  producing  serenity

Participating actively in our own destinies is as magnificent and glorious as acting out aspects of someone's interpretation of mythical beings.
Knowledge for the sake of learning is of value.
"The further you go, the less you know" Lao Tzu

The further you go into the high country of the mind, and thought, and logic, and awareness of the magnificence of life, the more you realize what you don't know.
In the meantime, while exploring the wonder of your own life, some things are, (so I maintain, anyway) absolute truths, such as the value of love and selflessness and so on.
While finding or looking for your own individual view of the immensity of all things, you can refrain from doing things to others that you don't want them to do to you, as is said in the Torah.
You can accept that you are a part of everything, as significant as all other parts, but no more so.

When we teach a child that life is really all about a God that demands total submission  and these are his rules, we  may well be teaching something that has no basis in fact, at all.

Teaching a child about sleeping beauty  as a parable, teaching about the triumph of good and beauty, is harmless unless one teaches that the moral of the story is that people that "look like witches" have a prediliction to poison beautiful young women.
It really was not that long ago, in historical terms, that women were indicted as being witches, and hung after a "fair trial", in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Any of the variations of Yaweh, Yeshua or Allah, have historically lead to bloodshed.
By way of contrast, there have been no Buddhist or Taoist wars.

Children should always be taught that Christianity is not considered factual, and that their behavior should be  based on laws and kindness, not a fairytale.