This one is interesting...
A former Christian fundamentalist, now an atheist, travels to Israel to get over his on-off paranoid fear of ending up in Hell. He actually visits Gehenna, a real place outside Jerusalem. Gehenna turns out to be a tranquil, peaceful park?! Well, at least today...
The anti-Hell discourse is based on a book by (anti)Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman, which I unfortunately haven´t read. The short form is that many references to "Hell" in the Bible are annihilationist and reference either the apocalypse or a gloomy Hades-like place. Not a literal lake of fire in which souls burn forever and ever (and teeth will be provided).
Not sure if I entirely buy that scenario, but there you go.
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