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False dichotomy, snater. As I said earlier, God knows what we would freely choose to do, were we in a certain circumstance, and so places us in the circumstances he chooses (obviously it's more complicated than that, since which circumstances we're in depend on what circumstances others are in and vice versa). You're going to have to say a lot more to support your position.
Regarding my claim about there needing to be some sort of cosmic justice. This is founded on two premises of mine. First, that there is evil in the world. Second, that it is better to be good than evil. The first is simply basic; I can maybe offer some evidence for it, but it's not something I can really argue for. I can offer some arguments for the second, if you want. Now, if goodness does not somehow win out in the end, if there is not a God who somehow redeems all the evil and suffering in the world (and yes, I'm using the word redeems purposefully), being good is just some sort of cosmic joke. Either God, or no goodness.
Before you accuse me of a position I don't hold, let me clarify that I hardly think that, without God, people would just shaft and be shafted (to paraphrase Thrasymachus). There are reasons to be nice. But niceness is hardly goodness.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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