It is no more like religion than a penny-terrible is like life.
It is a cruel and fantastic distortion of the truth." She paused.

Piers was listening to her with that odd hunger in his eyes that had looked out of them the night before.
"You don't believe in hell then ?" he said quietly, after a moment.
"As a place of future torment--no!" she said.

"The only real hell is here on earth--here in our hearts when we fall away from God.

Hell is the state of sin and all that goes with it--the fiery hell of the spirit.

It is here and now.