I guess, in a sense, we can find a Christian meaning out of that view of life, comparing hell to the here-and-now. If we want to define hell and heaven, we must acknowledge that they're both perceptions of God's energy (which is one, as His will is), in that believers perceive the same energy that all souls will see in the afterlife as goodness and wonder (thus, "heaven"), and disbelievers in their post-mortal state perceive the same energy in suffering and punishment, as their souls are hardened and shut to God's goodness, and so therefore they can only see that energy, put upon them by their soul entering the infinite eternity of God, as sorrowful pain, lacking God, the source of all goodness which they are without in their position by being without Him. Similarly, by someone hardening their heart against God in this world, they are to comprehend the world as a "hell", as they are without a source of goodness. The only distinction is that hell is eternal and the mortal frame of our current existence isn't, so a soul can be softened and embraced by The Lord overtime, rather than be damned in its own time of mortal life from the get-go, yet either existence still lacks an absolute goodness with a lack of evil, for either instead have a lack of absolute good by our free will with its choice to reject the will of God that then results in evil. Basically, since our current universe is fallen because of our inherent actions upon which we have sinned, no matter how meager we believe the sins to be, in that they still taint the world with any form of evil, which is a state-of-being that lacks God, who is goodness, the world can therefore be comparable to hell, in a way, in that both hell and our current universe lack that presence of eternal goodness because we have been granted free will to decide allegiance to the kingdom of God or, in rejecting Him, the kingdom of destruction, which rules over the planet for the time-being because of the presence of evil through a lack of absolute goodness until God's return, which will establish goodness with the perfection of God gracing every inch of the Earth's land. So, yes, we aren't living in hell, but we are living in an evil world by our imperfect humanity.
