If Jesus is into keeping people alive in a horrible place and torturing them in fire and he says to imitate him, then what does it say about you that you think that's okay? It says something about what is in your heart.
Jesus does not approve of torture. It was his adversary the Devil that used torture.
People have been lying about God and Jesus for thousands of years. Since the garden of Eden, the Devil has been saying "when you're dead, you're not really dead." The hellfire teaching is just another version of that lie.
If you want to believe lies about God or about Jesus, @SeaBreeze, that is your business. But it's not nice to slander Jesus by saying that he approves of something that he actually hates.
"If the light that is in you is really darkness, how great that darkness is!"
Jesus said to clothe yourself with love. You would do well to put on some clothes, @SeaBreeze, because you are naked.
Revelation 3:17-19
"Because you say, “I am rich and have acquired riches and do not need anything at all,” but you do not know that you are miserable and pitiful and poor and blind and naked, I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may become dressed and that the shame of your nakedness may not be exposed, and eyesalve to rub in your eyes so that you may see. All those for whom I have affection, I reprove and discipline. So be zealous and repent."