“For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.” 2 Peter 2:21
I think you may be underestimating the filth coming out from Western Europe too. Likewise to how they are utterly without excuse as well. It’s just farther away and so not so in our faces.
Still, with respect to those who simply refuse the retain knowledge of the Lord you and I are in agreement ... with Scripture. They are gonna really be hurting.
In fact one of my early threads on FR was one I called Hell: the Worm and the Fire where I set forth the idea that Hell isn’t so much punishment for deeds done but the remedial response to what the finally damned actually are and its severity, the fire, is potentially exacting in proportion to the strength of the worm, or the sin nature.
Which is to say, short short version, I speculated mainly on the basis of these two evidences from Scripture: that since we are flat out told that Christ came to, among other things, destroy the work of the devil (so no more sinning will occur) and likewise we have this thing which seems an external torment (the fire) and another that may be internal (the worm) from the Lord description as well.
Essentially Hell then becomes a place where a raging sin nature (lifelong pew warmers who never got saved would be an example) are restrained from further expression by stronger wrath compared to what someone who has a weak sin nature would need to experience to prevent them ever having sin again.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1736726/posts
Needless to say I think old Dante missed the mark, though of course his writing was more dense and nuanced philosophical allegory that has been taken way too at face value.