The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.
It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.
One lives everything down in time.
Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.
If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.