I fear hell, and this article made things worse for me. What do you guys think?

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Very nice response, thank you! That is a very rational way of looking at it. Do you think NDEs of people seeing hell then is likely a result of them potentially fearing hell when they die?

You're most welcome, I'm glad

Absolutely, yes. These NDEs are when the brain is under extreme stress (nearly dying) and so it starts to go very wonky. People already have ideas of what hell "is like" in their head from it being programmed into them, and from artwork and other mythology.

I'm not claiming to know with certainty that people don't ever actually experience something real during these things, but there is no evidence that they do. What they experience is easily explainable. It's backed up by the huge correlation between the religion someone has been indoctrinated into, and the kind of NDE they have. It usually just happens to be the same thing. The brain is playing tricks on you; hallucinating. And it's going to draw from your own memory of ideas, because that's all it has. People saying, "But maybe it's a magic trip into another dimension where my story book comes to life and..." is all well and good. You can make such wild speculation about anything, and in my estimation, it's evidence or shut the hell up.

I've even had a dream where I was in hell, and I've never been indoctrinated. But I've been surrounded by the mythology so long that I naturally form ideas in my head about what it would (fictionally) be like.