Fear of hell, advice please

[GrandizerII]

I was raised an Orthodox Christian, and I can definitely tell you I believed demons did torture people in hell as I was growing up. The similarities you see are selective, rooted in perhaps the same culture, and you're just not zooming out enough to see what's happening at the global scale.

thanks for the response, in that case, maybe it's safe to assume that if you were under complete stress, potentially dying, brain malfunctioning, that you would also see a hell with demons running around torturing people.

In the case of brain malfunctioning, it's possible, but how likely, who knows. The brain does have such images stored somewhere in it.

You also need to keep in mind the credibility of the sources you have access. You can't trust everything you read/hear. Discernment is always a good thing.