There are other imaginitive stories regarding visits to Hell, Only Begotten Daughter, by James Morrow,and The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis. A great line in Screwtape letters is in a letter from one demon to his subordinate on Earth, "If you want to keep people separated from God, involve them in religion."
Good books, all, and highly recommended, mere figments of great writers' imaginations. Yet, we build our societal views of an imaginary place and have faith that it is an actual place. Is this what psychologists call transference? I don't know. I do know that such a place is not a physical possibility, and a spiritual possibility is another matter of faith, but, as for my personal opinion, not in this universe.
I leave you all so that I can get to work with a quote from a thermodynamics professor at University of Louisville's J. B. Speed Scientific School of Engineering: "The devil will never take an engineer to hell. If they find one spot cooler than any other (Delta T), they will cool it down."
My creed: It's easy to criticize for a group/person for being "closed-minded". Are you open-minded enough to consider whether your ideas might be wrong? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I fully agree about the line in screwtape letters to be profound.
religion has always gotten in the way of enlightenment.