Originally posted by yerssotthey wanted to scare people in to following them...what better way then tell them theres a after life filled with horror awaiting them forever.
the idea of hell was added to the religion when they christianised the western part of europe, they took over the german godess Hella who was mistress of the underworld and mixed it with Satan
my chances of seeing bigfoot are better than some man from the sky putting a ring of fire around my neck and damning me to hell.