Fundamentalism is on the rise in the world. Like in places like Iran and Afghanistan. And here in the United States with Christians. US Christians point out that things like gay sex and fortune telling should be illegal, according to the Bible. And that hell, which is eternal (cf. Revelation 20:1-15), is full of unwed mothers, people who committed apostasy and crooked lawyers. They're right. And Dante in his Divine Comedy (1321) goes into detail about all the other people you'll find in hell. Here are just a few examples from that poem: "That they sinned not; and if they merit had, ’Tis not enough, because they had not baptism Which is the portal of the Faith thou holdest." "That one is Homer, Poet sovereign; He who comes next is Horace, the satirist; The third is Ovid, and the last is Lucan." "I saw Electra with companions many, ’Mongst whom I knew both Hector and Aeneas, Caesar in armour with gerfalcon eyes." "I saw that Brutus who drove Tarquin forth, Lucretia, Julia, Marcia, and Cornelia, And saw alone, apart, Saladin." "All gaze upon him, and all do him honour. There I beheld both Socrates and Plato, Who nearer him before the others stand." Etc.
I've been to hell, dozens of times. If you last 30 seconds, its an eternity, and there's nothing to remember except blind abject terror. Fundamentalism incorporates Aristotelian logic, and the fault is not in the stars, my dear Brutus, but in our formal logic, which all the evidence indicates, does not even describe more than a quarter of the real world, and is being used to promote, lies and hypocrisy. Surprise! Academics are liars, when their own students still claim the sun revolves around the earth.
As per an enlightened sage, the quality of mind one cultivates in one's lifetime will determine the state of mind in the afterlife. If one was peaceful, joyful and blissful in one's lifetime this would be amplified in the afterlife. Same too if one was miserable, unhappy and depressed in one's lifetime which would be amplified in the afterlife as well. Hence it is very important to work on one's state of mind and consciousness through proper efforts while alive. As the saying goes, heaven and hell are states of mind one habitually cultivates.
