What the bible says Hell is like

[God of Mr. Hanky]

Nobody, not even the most evil of all persons ever to walk this earth deserves the punishment of the "eternal" horror beyond imagination which has been called Hell, for there is no justice in subjecting one whose capacity for evil is limited by time, space, and ...er...imagination to an infinite fate (the same truth applies likewise to those of a limited capacity for good making a claim for infinite reward). Excepting, and only excepting the one who has used this idea to threaten others into compliance on anything, regardless of who he would create out of his own shit as a deflection target for his own egotistical whims!

When they hand you a tin star and pay you to enforce the law of the people, and you do that, then it is correctly said that you are the law. When you claim to do anything similar for a god, especially one of such magnitudinous power and ego as Yahweh is described by those who claim to "personally know" this fantastical (and horrific) person, then you also make the claim that you are that god. How could you not be assuming that role, regardless of the title you choose to whitewash it with, when this said god never, ever gets anything done in our world without the assholes who call themselves "followers" who supposedly act on his behalf? Therefore, when you claim to act in your god's name, you deserve to be treated like anyone who claims to be God himself. It should also be kept in mind just how angry, violent, capricious, bigoted, misogynistic, and cruel that god (that's you, Believer) happens to be.  Did I mention crazy? Nobody can do more grave harm, and nobody is more evil and treacherous in his heart than the evangelist who has declared himself "on a mission from God"!

Billions of people have experienced the equivalent of hell just by having lived their lives on Earth.  From the day they were born to the day that they died they lived in pain, misery, hunger, slavery, poverty, war, disease, physical and mental impairments.  They suffered every minute of their lives without anyone to lighten their load.  They experienced real hell.  So what do they have to fear from an imaginary hell in an imaginary after-life?

I happen to know, and first-hand, quite a bit of the real hells on this earth.

Children don't know that when you tell them of a fate much worse than their present condition, and one which they will never grow out of or outlive. Children actually are known to lose sleep over fear of things under their beds, and the idea of a devil who may take them if they weren't good little boys or girls if they fail to wake up can be profoundly damaging - how can you really think the issue through and still play it down? This is why I feel it's important to go after the sort of evangelists who do or would terrorize children with such horrors, when they aren't able to logically dismiss them - it is the ultimate child abuse!