H*E*L*L--- Is it Real?

Hell, according to several spiritual beliefs, is a life after death of torment where the iniquitous or unrighteous souls are castigated.

Hell is “more often than not” depicted as underground. Contained by Islam and Christianity, Hell is customarily depicted as flaming and agonizing. Some other ethnicities, on the other hand, describe Hell as cold and gloomy. Continuation after life is not tangible in Judaism and may be portrayed as a status of neutrality, an eternal nothingness, simply non-life.

Some theologies of Hell offer lifelike and ghastly. Religions with a linear divine history often depict Hell as endless. Religions with a cyclical history often illustrate Hell as a conciliator period between incarnations. Chastisement in Hell typically corresponds to sins unswerving in life. Every now and then these dissimilarities are unambiguous, with disaster-prone souls anguishing for each wrong committed, and at times they are general, with sinners being downgraded to one or more hollow of Hell or level of miseries. In Islam and Christianity, conversely, devotion and remorse play a bigger role than actions in determining a soul's “the hereafter destiny”.

Hell is often represented inhabited with demons, which agony the hopeless. Many are ruled by a death god, such as Nergal, the Hindu Yama, or concepts of the Christian Satan.

In disparity to Hell, other universal types of afterlives are abodes of the deceased and paradises. Abodes of the lifeless are unbiased places for all the, rather than prisons of castigation for sinners. A paradise is a blissful afterlife for some or all the dead.

Modern understanding of Hell often depicts it conceptually, as a status of loss relatively than as burning torture plainly under the ground.