so why pick on the christians for the concept of hell, the notion goes all the way back to the earliest monotheistic religion, zoroastrianism.
Zoroastrians believe that after life on earth, the human soul
is judged by God as to whether it did more good or evil in its life.
Those who chose good over evil go to what Zarathushtra referred to
simply as the "best existence," or heaven, and those who chose evil
go to the "worst existence," or hell