everlasting conscious torment strikes countless numbers of people, ranging from devout believers to militant atheists, as intuitively and irreconcilably inconsistent with fundamental justice and morality. Again I emphasize that this fact alone does not prove everlasting torment wrong. If every human who ever lived declared the traditional view of hell both immoral and unjust, their unanimous negative reaction would not be reason enough to abandon the doctrine. The only legitimate measure of its truthfulness