"Hell" is a human constructed mythology, and the concept of reward/punishment in the afterlife is a motif that existed long before the monotheism of Abraham in Jews/Christians and Muslims.
Polytheists long prior also had their concepts of reward punishment in the afterlife.
If you want a real answer as to why humans made up these things, it is because 200,000 years ago in the early days of our species, long before any written religion, WE DIDN'T KNOW SHIT.
What is the first form of regulation we experience as a species? The first thing we experience after birth is the regulation of our parents. Evolution in our species produces social structures and parents are the first form of regulation we experience.
Unfortunately we projected our own human qualities on the world around us. If a volcano erupted we would think a human like god was saying something to us. If the storm flooded our area, we thought a human like super natural being was controlling the skies.
Even Hindus and Buddhists have their superstitions of what happens in the afterlife in that of reincarnation. If you do well in this life, you come back in your next life rewarded with a better life. If you do bad in this life, you come back with a worse life as a form of punishment.
Asian religions are also full of this motif. Even in Japan, the spirits of your ancestors are sent above for reward, or put in the underworld as punishment. The ancient Egyptians long before Christianity had the "Judgment of the dead" mythology".
It is merely a very childish form of humans projecting parental qualities in the form of fiction.
The good thing is there is no such thing as hell, the bad thing is humans still buy that crap.
The real source of or species morality is rooted in our social evolution. Humans try to seek cooperation and will resist anything that upsets that social stability. So mythology was started by humans because we didn't know better, so we made horrible guesses. It did produce social structure, but it still does not make any deity real or superstition required to explain why humans do good or bad.
If you can reject the threats of the mythologies of others, then it should be wise for you to look at your own claims.
Our species ability to seek cooperation, or use cruelty is not magic, not in old mythology, it is in our genes.
Polytheists long prior also had their concepts of reward punishment in the afterlife.
If you want a real answer as to why humans made up these things, it is because 200,000 years ago in the early days of our species, long before any written religion, WE DIDN'T KNOW SHIT.
What is the first form of regulation we experience as a species? The first thing we experience after birth is the regulation of our parents. Evolution in our species produces social structures and parents are the first form of regulation we experience.
Unfortunately we projected our own human qualities on the world around us. If a volcano erupted we would think a human like god was saying something to us. If the storm flooded our area, we thought a human like super natural being was controlling the skies.
Even Hindus and Buddhists have their superstitions of what happens in the afterlife in that of reincarnation. If you do well in this life, you come back in your next life rewarded with a better life. If you do bad in this life, you come back with a worse life as a form of punishment.
Asian religions are also full of this motif. Even in Japan, the spirits of your ancestors are sent above for reward, or put in the underworld as punishment. The ancient Egyptians long before Christianity had the "Judgment of the dead" mythology".
It is merely a very childish form of humans projecting parental qualities in the form of fiction.
The good thing is there is no such thing as hell, the bad thing is humans still buy that crap.
The real source of or species morality is rooted in our social evolution. Humans try to seek cooperation and will resist anything that upsets that social stability. So mythology was started by humans because we didn't know better, so we made horrible guesses. It did produce social structure, but it still does not make any deity real or superstition required to explain why humans do good or bad.
If you can reject the threats of the mythologies of others, then it should be wise for you to look at your own claims.
Our species ability to seek cooperation, or use cruelty is not magic, not in old mythology, it is in our genes.
