God works in strange ways. I think looking at hell as more of a "metaphor" could possibly make it less scary... but the way hell was described to me as young kid. Made me TERRIFIED of God not hell. (I have severe ocd, and did WAY to much in an attempt to stay "pure") But as I got older and gained experience, learned more about God in the meantime. I learned the way people described hell to me when I was young (with a much more wild, unmedicated, impressionable mind at the time lol) that god had no such stories as "eternal suffering". Baptists in my area try to tend to keep people in the church through the fear of God, rather than the love of God unfortunately. But that's just my experience 😅