Eternal Torment

Almost no one who mistakenly believes in eternal torment of any kind after death—mistakenly in that the Bible does not teach it and in that even eternal pain in an amoral hell could be believed but not proven (eternal torture would be morally unjust by logical necessity)—actually takes it as seriously as its nature would merit.  They might say that death is worse than torture or go about their lives as if there was no overwhelming urgency at all in the fate of many in the afterlife.  Torture is far worse than nonexistence at best when it is severe or lasting enough.  The smallest of endless tortures would become in its ongoing entirety worse than almost any individual logically possible experience in this life.

Eternity has no end.  Time must have been created, or else there would have been an infinite number of moments until now, which means the present could never have come to pass.  It cannot have always been in existence even though it could have preceded the cosmos (there could be time without a universe, but no universe and its events without time in which they occur).  Even hypothetical billions or trillions of years would have an end, as vast as the scale would be.  Eternity could not, or else it could not be eternity.

The fact that the Bible does not actually teach that eternal conscious torment awaits all the unsaved after death aside (Romans 6:23, for instance), and even aside from the more fundamental fact that endless torture would logically always be disproportionate no matter the severity of a moral offense, eternal agony is so much worse than what most people who believe in it actually think that their lives would look incredibly different if they did take it seriously.  There would be far more frequent, sober reflection on and talk of the logical ramifications of eternal torment of any kind if people as a whole inside or outside of the church really focused on it, all while making no assumptions.

Some people would of course be stupid enough to still do certain things even if they knew with absolute certainty that they would result in eternal torment for amoral reasons (a non-theological or unconventional hell where people suffer forever, but not for supposed justice, does not contradict logical axioms), though eternal torture is morally illicit by default.  Without the absolute certainty part for reasons of epistemological limitations and erroneous beliefs about Christianity alike, this is how many evangelicals are.  They falsely believe that eternal suffering in hell is justice but also commit so many petty, blatantly stupid sins anyway.

Some people might actually believe or at least profess that this allegedly Biblical eternal torture is less severe a fate than permanent death, yet this is pathetically irrational.  Others might think that eternal torment in an afterlife is actually why murder is less vile than the worst tortures on Earth: I have spoken with someone who actually asserted that murder of the least painful kinds would be less severe than prolonged torture because the person killed might go to endless suffering.  Torture is the reason why they thought death is less severe than torture!  Again, almost no one who invalidly believes in eternal torment really even takes their own premise and its true intensity as seriously as its nature would demand.