How do religious people cope with the existence of Hell?

[°Leprechaun]

Good question. This belief has yet to die out. This life can be hell, so an eternal one is not hard for some to imagine. Certainly a deity that allows for such a thing is something that I can not believe in, and yet there are those for whom it is such a critical dogma that to believe otherwise in itself considered heresy, or so it would appear.

[°Leprechaun]

Although Christians are a majority in the USA, they are certainly not a majority of the world's population and if being something other than a Christian means eternal damnation it would
not be good news for the majority of the world.
Some Christians believe that many will literally burn in hell, which is not a merciful idea.

Yet, somehow, the mantra is that Christianity is "good news".

[°Leprechaun]

TDAS04..

Excellent, you are right on about that.

It's so sad that Christianity has become so perverted.

I was UU for over twenty years, because such ideas appealed to me, but like I have said in the past, whether or not there is an eternal hell "after death", we seem to be living on a very hellish planet. For five hundred years we have been living in Fantasyland, have any of you heard about that book?