This map shows the % of people in which European country who believe in the hell
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/wnbwhr/percentage_of_the_european_population_who_believe/
Portugal: 26.1%
Spain: 25.0%
France: 23.5%
Germany: 15.7%
Italy: 38.0%
UK: 23.9%
Switzerland: 16.9%
Austria: 22.9%
Netherlands: 12.9%
Denmark: 9.4%
Norway: 14.2%
Sweden: 12.3%
Finland: 14.5%
Greece: 44.3%
Poland: 53.4%
Ukraine: 39.9%
Russia: 36.8%
The origin of the word "hell" is the "hel" of the nordic pagans, which was only the place of the death, not a place of punishment, like the Christians think. The English language used the former nordic word to describe the Christian hell, instead of using the latin word "infernum".
Even though, the nordic countries are the ones who have the lowest % of people who believe in hell.
The US "wins" with 62%.
I have related the story before, but in 1975 a buddy of mine went to the 3 million book strong University of Michigan library to read up on what hell was like. The most recent book on the subject was published in 1906, the year my Dad was born. So among the intellectual class, hell lost its star power more than a century ago. Apparently at least 62% of Americans are not among the intelligentsia.
