I appreciate your phenomenological approach to this subject.

Would you say that the inherent problem with religion (and most ideological constructs) is that they rely on (or purport) certainty that is epistemologically impossible?

Only contention I had in the whole article was that - as someone who has studied a lot about Christianity - the whole notion of "hell" (especially as it is talked about by contemporary, American, conservative Christians) is a very small contingent within Christian theology and Christian tradition. There's even an argument that what is called 'dispensationalism' (disembodied afterlife in either heaven or hell) did not become a concept until around the Great Schism.