“Hell is not evil;”
It’s just run by evil and it the ultimate destination of everyone who does evil, and the amount of evil in there will never, ever decrease.
“Hell is just.”
Hell is the ultimate revenge fantasy. Not a very sophisticated one, either. Eternal, unending, bottomless torture.
PUNISHMENT is meant to curb misbehavior. Do a crime, do 5 years in prison, hopefully that’s bad enough that the crime isn’t worth it in the future.
People in Hell are never getting out. They’re never getting a second chance to show they’re redeemed. They never are audted to see if they learned their lesson.
There is no justice. NO point where the sins committed are balanced by the punishment received and the prisoner released. It’s about as just as cutting off a 5yo’s head for telling a fart joke.
"But that doesn't mean I delight in the thought of people going there.”
I think you do. There are people who cannot deal with the implications of Hell and just say ’it’s up to God,’ and insist that we won’t feel bad i nHeaven no matter how mny loved ones are in Hell.
And there are those that support the system, congratulate the system, and look forward to all the people they hate going there. And will joyfully sit on a cloud that has a view of the eternal torture.
you endorse torture and call it just.
You worship a god that USES suffering to accomplish his goals.
“Hell is a function of God's justice."
Except a perfect being of perfect mercy, omnibenevolent, would forgive everyone rather than put anyone to that agony.