Overview
Dante's God was the incorporeal, the opposite of the weighty Satan are the core of the earthly realm - so for me, God is even more incorporeal - in fact, he is Nothing, he is the void itself. He has as much substance as there is evidence to support his existence. He has is a visceral as his (lack of) actions in the world to prevent starvation, genocide, and terror. And so what sits at the center of my Hell, that like Dante's doesn't exist, is the total emptiness of the God concept itself.
Hell is a dream, just as God is a dream, and when this void is faced we can move on. Kierkegaard coined the famous term of 'Leap of Faith' - the notion of putting aside your reason and making a metaphorical jump in order to embrace, as real, that which you have no reason to think of as real. All because you wish it to be true. What I recommend in its place is the Leap of Acceptance, more difficult, sure, but far more sane, in the end. Better to look into the Void and give up the false comforts of wishful thinking. And what is real, what is found beyond that void, after the "leap" is made to accept the harsh reality of it, is the mountain, in it's full weightiness, the mountain that we have the tools to climb, thanks to science. For the corporeal is real, and good, and all we have, and is so much preferable to what religion offers instead.
"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death - however mutable man may be able to make them - our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." -- Stanley Kubrick
