It was free young people who refused to bow and subsequently exhibited freedom even in the midst of a fiery furnace.

And the angels will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

You have all this talk about 'the good people' and 'the evil people' and the evil people being thrown into the fiery furnace.

After the fiery furnace, there needn't always be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

He and his companions were cast into and miraculously delivered from the fiery furnace for refusing to worship the king's idol (3:13-30).