>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
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Aye I think you're right if you take things even further back and look at the old testament. From my (relatively little) study of the old testament hell refers more to a grave, or blackness, and not a fiery pit. I decided to use the words I did because most teaching these days is based on the simplistic fact that hell is indeed a fiery pit, and 'that's where you go if you're bad'. It's a twisting/mistranslation of the old testament's words, and a variety of words that meant different things (such as Hades, grave etc) were often lumped together in the translation as just "hell". So it seems that even if the bible does refer to this place I mention, it wasn't necessarily the original intention of the authors of the scripture that formed the bible for it to be described this way.

"to those" refers to children, who cannot yet discern right from wrong. A classic example (I think) of what this kind of indoctrination does is provided in the Amish documentary that is here on the sift.
http://videosift.com/video/Trouble-In-Amish-Paradise

They argue the how's why's and wherefore's of community protocol, mostly centered around how literally the religious teachings should be followed. It's clear to see that it never even crosses their mind that perhaps there isn't even a god. God is all they've ever known since childhood so any other possibility would be meaningless to them.

@hpqp good info, cheers