Jeremiah 18 starts like this:
1: The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2: Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
3: Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
4: And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
5: Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6: O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Now, from this I discern that God is the potter and we are the "lumps of clay". Effectively, the Bible thus claims that God has the right to disregard how we might feel about things and use us as He sees fit regardless, because we are supposed to be like that lump of dirt.
There is a major problem that most Bible readers miss. The lump of dirt has no potential feelings. It has no way of knowing what it is going through, no way of registering a preference for one use instead of another, or any sense of being put to its best possible use given the strengths and weaknesses of that particular type of clay. Thus, a potter can mold it however he sees fit, and the clay is not going to even notice anything.
Humans, on the other hand, do have feelings, potentials, and preferences. If God is forcibly molding them into something they are not suited for, they do have a sense of the waste of life that will result. A person that would have done well with the opposite sex, for instance, is going to have a miserable time as a missionary or as a monk. Yet, God reserves the right to close out the opposite sex options and corral that person in such a wasteful role in life, without any thought that the person is going to regret it.
And, instead of feeling bad when the person is thus unfulfilled, Jehovah will claim that the person should have given up his feelings and adopted Jehovah's instead. And that person should shut up about it, and accept that Jehovah chose a non-rewarding, non-fulfilling, non-satisfying position for that person instead of a more natural, more normal, more rewarding situation.
No, this is not the Not Well Translated version or some other f***ed up version. This is the good old King James version I am quoting from! Of course, the witlesses do use this verse a lot, to justify people going to Beth Hell or the Value Destroyer Training School, and to goad people to pio-sneer. But even regular church often uses this section to get people to shut up about a blatantly non-satisfying situation and go on a wasteful mission or to become a monk/nun. It effectively means we need to give up all our preferences and submit exclusively to the will of God, regardless of how much waste occurs as a result, and shut up about it.
Now, I wonder what happens if, since God is hereby determined to treat people literally like dirt, if they stop worshiping HIm altogether and start worshiping the Devil or going atheist.