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You are wrong.
Of course it is "naive". That's the word you use for when people take far mode beliefs literally rather than as verbal symbols used to signal group affiliation.
No they haven't. I was an Evangelical Christian for 22 years and did far more thinking about such things than the mean, median and mode Evangelical Christian. I am also more than passably familiar with the kind of reasoning used by Evangelical Christian leaders of various levels of shrewdness. I can assure you that next to none of them are naive enough to base their decision making on literal min-maxing of near infinite positive and negative utilities in heaven and hell. This isn't surprising---Christianity isn't based upon consequentialism in the first place.
Avoid inflationary use of terms.