“If the scriptures mean anything…….”

Hogwash, Fischer. The common vision of Hell as a place of eternal and limitless torment is a myth, a gruesome fairy tale invented to frighten people into accepting Pascal’s wager. The scriptures cited to justify this invention are thin on the ground, out of context, and distinctly less specific than the common terror-tale. Even in Dante’s time, when the hell-myth had already had several centuries of embellishment, it was not commonly seen as entailing unlimited pain for all the unrepentant. Remember the “virtuous pagans,” who lived eternal lives of comfort in the highest level?
Fischer and other fire and brimstone fundamentalists are not above elaborating the scriptures themselves when it suits their never-ending quest for power and money.