I realized that the tales about hell are the same as the ones about the boogeyman: made-up to frighten childen into behaving. We have the same evidence for both, i.e. none - so they are not worth your despair. If you're interested, Narnia is a much more exciting make-belief place...I focus my attention on other fantasy genres that peak my interest and leave the bible alone. Next time somebody brings up hell, bring up Middle Earth... in my experience reading the Lord of the Rings is far more worthwhile and coherent than the Bible. Trust me, I come from a religious family and background, and when I start hearing about the devil, I say 'but Frodo threw the ring into fires of Mordor and Sauron was vaquished - and we all lived happily ever after.' NEXT!

“How do you guys overcome the fear of Hell?” With the certainty that we’re simply living it

Fortunately I never had the terror of hell even as an evangelical. I think some people are constitutionally more prone to it than others. It also depends on the exact version of hellthreat you were suckled on (my denomination emphasized "eternal security" ). It also is influenced by the type of parenting you received (mine were not particularly authoritarian).

My take-away from this is that since there are people who have zero fear of hell simply because they never heard of it, and there are even people like me who heard of it but have zero fear, then there's no reality to the fear apart from the campfire stories being told and the willingness of people to be credulous about it.

Finally, when you really look into it, common notions about hell owe more to Milton and Dante and to Elizabethan biases in the translation of the Bible and Hellenistic influences on the New Testament authors, than to what little the Bible actually says about it and how e.g. the ancient Hebrews actually viewed it. Most likely what you've heard is not only divorced from reality, but even from the scriptures themselves.

I was raised Catholic. Went to Catholic school for 12 years. Taught by nuns who had no idea about life,but could put the fear of god in us! Went to church faithfully. Married in the church and raised my children in Catholicism. Attended prayer meetings, believed in heaven and hell. Then I started to have life changes. My parents lived with me for 10 years. Did not have good communication skills with them or my husband. We all avoided confrontation like the plague! Without going into detail,I slowly realized there was no god to help me. If you don't believe in heaven then there absolutely can be no hell! All the comments on here have a lot of value. Don't waste your emotional well being on what not is. Hope this helps!

I stopped believing in hell before I stopped believing in god.

When I overcame the fear of gods, werewolves, goblins that lived under my bed. Just made sense to me that if it doesn't exist, then it is not rational to be afraid of it. "Hell" is a man made mind fuck meant to manipulate. Thats all.

I really never feared it when I did believe. I surely don't now. But honestly, I'm of the attitude that if any god DID exist and that god chose a punishment such as hell for ANYTHING, let alone disbelief, I would go and go gladly and spit in that fucker's face while they dragged me away. I have no need for a god, particularly not one with such a penchant for cruelty.