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Comment author: taelor 14 July 2013 05:56:17PM 0 points [-]

Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus don't believe in hell, but as far as I can tell.

I can't speak for the other ones, but Buddhists at least don't have a "hell" that non-believers go to when they die because Buddhists already believe that life is an eternal cycle of infinite suffering, that can only be escaped by following the tenants of their religion. Thus, rather then going to hell, non-believers just get reincarnated back into our current world, which Buddhism sees as being like unto hell.