text: The hell we learned about in Catholic childhood, like burning in fire forever without relief hell--that is there for us if we screw up? Something worse than anyone on earth could do to us?  Some people believe in this.  And if this is so, God is not stern?  Come on.  God cannot be loving and kind and burn us forever.  That hell is made up by the church to frighten people into control.  And many people believe in it.  It is still the official church teaching I think.