It depends on the belief structure. As a child, I remember seeing paintings of hell, where demons were taking an active role in tormenting the souls of the damned. So I had the impression that hell was the domain of Satan and the demons, and that wicked souls were handed to them for torment. As if they were working with god to punish evildoers. The JWs don't teach a fiery hell, so it wasn't something frightening to me, it was just someone else's false belief. I did think that if Satan was allowed to run hell, he'd probably want to make it as fun and pleasant a place as possible to draw as many people away from god as he could. So the concept of hell as a place that Satan was in charge of always seemed silly. As far as I can tell, the Bible tells that demonic beings will be sent to hell as tenants, not landlords. So the idea would be that Satan is hoping to drag as many people along with him as he can, out of spite.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
