This reminds me of something I've heard one of my brothers say a few times:
"Heaven (God) won't have me and hell's (Devil) afraid I'll take over"
I don't know what a hell would be. My limited mind doesn't allow me to realistically know. Is it fire and brimstone and demons picking at my flesh for eternity, or is it not realizing my life potential? Is it having my head twisted and turned while spikes get continuously stuck through my eyes, or being reborn into an existence of suffering (no matter how minor or major I see it as being)? Is it piranhas eating my pecker off for all eternity, or asking questions that I will never know the answers to? What if it's feeling something good and then feeling something bad? What if it's spending 40 years loving someone and then in an instance losing them? Is it unrequited love?
Most people see hell as something extraordinary or incredibly grand, but what if it's something that just eats away at you slowly or something like that throughout your life?
Driving a chevy......
(Runs and hides and waits for the flack )
Edit - I wasn't brave enough to say riding a harley.
As I don't believe in the biblical heaven and hell, use them as how you live your life. Living in Oregon, and with the large number of non-churched people is on the heaven side. The daily assault on things I believe in is a little hell. Making music with others, play with 3 groups is on the good.
Being able to pick the groups that I am in contact with is great, family, UU church, humanist. Having to live back in the mid-west where I was raised would be hell, as don't need the religious folks with all of their narrow-mindedness, racist, sexist, bigoted views. You get the idea.
Joining a site for atheists and agnostics and still taking about things religious people talk about all the time... ????
Being forced to ride It's a Small World After All at Disneyland for eternity...yunno, if there was one.
Hell is what most US blacks face every day, the society seems to be against you (is against you) and no matter what you do you can't get ahead or make it better.
Being stuck in hell forever with all those I thought had gone to heaven.