The Torah says nothing about hell. It speaks of Hades but not as a place of torture. When the Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek in ancient Alexandria around 200 BC, the word "Hades" (the Greek underworld) was substituted for Sheol. This is reflected in the New Testament where Hades is both the underworld of the dead and the personification of the evil it represents.

It's even worse that they can justify it as perfectly moral.

@paul1967 Exactly! I was part of this belief system once. The effort and energy I expended trying to rationalize and maintain this belief--which goes against everything a decent, empathetic human being actually feels--is crushing. What an enormous relief it was to escape.

@paul1967 Fanaticism justufy all kinds of behaviors.

I agree. I just don't get why they accept the concept of hell. If God were real the mere existence of hell means God is vile and not worthy of our respect.

@paul1967 According to them the all benevolent god created hell to protect the "after life world" by eliminating those that were evil in the "before death world".

If all the religious nuts would had used their ability to "write fables / tales" in a normal way... Aesop would have had a lot of competition and.the world literature would have benefited plenty.