1) "The most effective technique for subduing the moral imagination is to teach it to mistake the contradictory for the paradoxical, and thereby to accept incoherence as profundity or moral idiocy as spiritual subtlety."
2) So "hell" might be modeled as the painful cognitive dissonance of a consciousness containing a pervasive worldview of falsehood, when it is confronted by inescapable Truth...
1) "The most effective technique for subduing the moral imagination is to teach it to mistake the contradictory for the paradoxical, and thereby to accept incoherence as profundity or moral idiocy as spiritual subtlety."
2) So "hell" might be modeled as the painful cognitive dissonance of a consciousness containing a pervasive worldview of falsehood, when it is confronted by inescapable Truth...
Worthy of meditation.