This really , really bothered me when I was a Christian . Suffering on earth always ends , even if it ' s through death , but Hell is supposedly eternal torture . Doesn ' t that mean that God is literally worse than Hitler ? And I don ' t use that comparison lightly . I broached that question once and it did not go well , to say the least . It was so frustrating when I still believed but was dealing with some really tough questions about my faith , but when I would talk about what bothered me mostly with my parents , occasionally with others people thought I was trying to attack Christianity . Anyway , you ' ll get a variety of responses to the fate of Jewish people and other nonChristians , for that matter who died in the Holocaust . Some people have no problem saying that they are being tortured eternally . Others , like my mom , say that maybe they ' re not all in Hell . She doesn ' t deny that Hell , in its traditional conception as a place of eternal torture , exists , just says that maybe there won ' t be as many people there as some think . Then a lot of liberal Christians have some sort of belief where Hell doesn ' t exist or isn ' t such a bad place after all .