Sounds a rather arrogant certitude.
Since we don't think there is any afterlife and do not believe in hell, we live our lives peacefully and happily free from this silliness. We also disbelieve in psychics, demon possession, channeling gurus, ancient texts written by goatherders, and similar irrational nonsense.
There is no rational or moral argument in support of hell. It's just superstition.
I do suspect that the statement, if it is held as a belief by someone, would suggest to me that the person who thought their spouse was surely going to hell, would not have married the person to begin with.
But come now, I don't believe in hell except right here on earth, but I don't think we ought to engage in dissing one another's beliefs.
Next thing you know we will segue into circumcision,,,and believe me you don't want to see what happens on a thread that goes there.
I personally would hate being married to someone who thought I was for sure going to hell,,it would drive me nuts. But I would also hate to think people were going to hell who lived otherwise blameless lives. I don't much like the concept of hell, really.
Talk about arrogant certitude...
My understanding is that there is an afterlife and that the mystics believe in a hell and even a purgatory but that you are not supposed to do good deeds "to get into heaven". You are not supposed to bargain with G-d to have a great after life. What is your knowledge of this? I was told that the idea that we do not believe in an afterlife is false; that we do; but that we do not emphasize it.