Our Beliefs About Hell Have Shifted Over Time and Influenced Our Culture

[MineralMan]

3. Like most things religious, there is zero evidence for Hell.

Because of that, people's belief about what it might be and its characteristics vary. If something doesn't exist so you can examine, you can think of it any way you wish, really.

That's very different from how science looks at, say, an atom. Our understanding of atoms has shifted over time. But that shift has been due our ability to actually examine real atoms in real ways. As our technology improves, we are better able to describe atoms and their structure. When I was a youngster, it was commonly believed that we would never be able to actually see an individual atom. In my lifetime, that has proven not to be true. We can now see individual atoms. We still can't see inside them, but we can see them. What will come next in our understanding of the atom? I don't know, but I know they exist and can be studied.

Hell has never been examined at all. It can't be, because it doesn't exist. So, all descriptions of it are simply the products of human imagination. Religion and science work very differently.