punishment seems hard to believe. What kind of a God would consign people to a place or condition of eternal torment? Interestingly, though many world religions, such as Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism, do teach the existence of hell and portray it dramatically in their art, they also teach that persons only reside in hell for a period of time until their karma or sin has been repaid; then they move on. Today the major religions that teach an eternal hell are Orthodox Judaism (but not Reformed or