Hell fire and eternal torture are pagan/catholic doctrines not taught in the Bible. It is very difficult to undo this global misunderstanding, along with hundreds of other misrepresentations of the Bible by self appointed religions. The only way to prove that is to read it yourself - cover to cover, and then also an authentic version and not a false one. Now how can anyone tell the difference which is which? - yet another maize to get through.
The Bible exposes the false religions, and political agendas from 500 BC to now. Religious leaders are counting on false versions and ignorance/ trust in their leadership, to prevent that knowledge from getting out, all the while remaining willfully ignorant themselves.
The Papacy is the mother of them all and also the centre of all great finance, ie world bank, shipping etc
I would have to agree that the Catholic Church is pretty far from the religion that Christ pushed. It is also pretty obvious that the Catholics added a lot of pagan ideas into the mix in an attempt to bring in more followers. If you go to Central America and look at the Catholicism there, it is merged with local customs and beliefs. While the priests may try to stay with the Church's doctrines, the people don't. I am sure the early Church was greatly influenced by the pagan cults that existed in Rome at the time.
But nobody knows exactly what the original Christian Church was like. There are differences in the accounts presented in the different books of the New Testament. And I have heard supposed experts talk about the need to read the texts in the original language. And of course you need to understand the context of the time. Which all sounds a little like arguing about the what the meaning of "is" is. I wonder if Christ had known what the future of his religion was going to be like, if he might have just kept his mouth shut. That would have saved a lot of people a lot of suffering. At the very least he should have written the words of the Bible himself and kept it short and to the point.