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The worst thing about being an atheist (or a theist with a good religious education) is not being able to tell yourself these people are going to burn in Hell.
The description most Christians give for "hell" is so unimaginably horrifying I'm glad no one is going to. There is nothing anyone could possibly do that would justify punishing them for "eternity" with no hope of end or of trying to atone for it. Eternity, where a thousand, a million, a billion years of excruciating torment would be nothing. For something they did over some 80-year period.
Torment as "justice" in general isn't my thing either.
About the only thing that makes sense to me, is that hell is just a purgatory in reality. You're there until you learn from your mistakes
Or alternatively that earth/our universe is the purgatory, which kinda would make sense with why suffering is part of the world. The funny thing is is that it would make earth "hell" in this instance
An understanding of hell that is full of suffering, pain, and hellfires like in the mainstream makes absolutely no sense to me
I mean, the concept of hell as people claim it, or of purgatory, are largely unsupported by scripture.
But what makes more sense is that they're just fictional storied that make no sense. Just like ancient Egyptian afterlife myths, Hindu afterlife myths, etc.