Is people being violent until they find Jesus a common occurance?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Jesus said that if people don't follow him that he will throw their butts into the fire.

If it's the "eternal torture" kind of hell, that's indeed worse. If it's the "destruction and cessation of existence" kind of hell, it would be preferable to heaven. It kind of depends on what someone believes hell is.

In the Bible there's a major difference between hell and the lake of fire.  Hell is temporary and the inmates will make bail on Judgment Day. Some might even get into the golden cube called New Jerusalem but only if they are members of the twelve tribes of Israel.  Hell then gets tossed into the lake of fire, along with all of the lost souls.

A lot of people's versions of hell are actually influenced by the Islamic and Zoroastrian versions of hell.  You don't want to end up in the Islamic hell.  It's a real horrible place of eternal torments of the worse kinds.  The biblical hell is very mild by comparison and it's temporary.  Most people actually end up in hell unless they end up in the sea or in death.  But those are also temporary.   That's according to the fairy tales but the Bible says that people shouldn't believe in Jewish fairy tales.