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this conception of hell pretty much holds good for Christianity (or at least for the Latin part of it, idk how the Greek east might differ) but it very much does not represent the stance in Islam, which, while not really sharing a consensus view, permits a more irenic vision of suffering after death -temporary damnation and universal salvation are non starters throughout most of the history of christian thought, and even their modern adherents have to be tentative in their commitments, while both doctrines are perfectly acceptable within the latitude of Islamic thought.
I don’t know much about the Hebrew conception, but at least going off of what’s in the tanakh, there’s a whole range of different afterlifes, some of which are neutral -and not in the purgatory sense of playing a preparatory role for an eventual, better afterlife; like in the sense that the afterlife wasn’t one that was the result of divine moral judgment of each individual. There’s a surprising amount of content in the Hebrew Bible that isn’t just like, focused on fashioning the ethical integrity of the believing reader, or at least content that isn’t trying to fashion an ethically pure subject worthy of sanctification, the topic that the New Testament is so autistically concerned with.- others less than benevolent, like Gehenna. Iirc, it isn’t super clear whether the latter might not be a physical place, though it defo isn’t a lake of fire and brimstone.
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