According to The Guardian, 71% of Americans still believe in Hell! I thought it would be lower, but USA is always surprising in it's religiosity when compared to Europe.

In comparison 32% of British people believe in Hell, and that is itself quite high for a European country.

The Guardian article noted that whilst that many Americans believed in hell, only 0.5% believed that they would actually go there.

Universalism is the belief in heaven/paradise/nirvana but not in hell (it is therefore the belief that all people will be saved, or that all people will eventually find enlightenment). Interesting Christianity started out (for it's first 100 years) as universalist:
http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/universalism.html

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Hell in Satanism and a History of the Concept of Hell, by Vexen Crabtree

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"Universalism: If there is a Good God, Everyone Must Go to Heaven" by Vexen Crabtree (2002)

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A Illinois man left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail. Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. /when the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint. At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen: DEAREAST WIFE: JUST GOT CHECKED IN. EVERYTHING PREPARED FOR YOUR ARRIVAL TOMORROW.

　　P.S.SURE IS HOT DOWN HERE.

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