(November 27, 2017 at 2:06 pm)purplepurpose Wrote:(November 27, 2017 at 1:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Which god?
The ones that sell Heaven and Hell - all the popular ones.
If you look at the entire global history of all dead mythology, and still believed religions, you will find the same motifs of "reward/punishment", it is not exclusive to monotheisms.
Japanese history and Asian history, and even India history includes ideas of reward/punishment in the afterlife. Most humans just like antiquity, most humans worldwide, even today have some sort of belief in being good now for reward later, or being bad ending up in some sort of punishment later.
Buddhists and Hindus have concepts of "karma" and "reincarnation", and those are also concepts of reward/punishments.
You don't have to have a belief in a monotheistic God, to believe you continue in some way after death.
Some concepts are the worship of spirits, and if you do good you go up, if you do bad, you get stuck in the underworld.
Not enough humans have a good exposure of world history when it comes to religion and mythology. Once you start comparing more and more the motifs might have different details, some with gods, others with mere spirits, or a concept of recycling, but all of them are thoughts of morality and what happens in this life will determine where you go in the afterlife.
Point is, it is a childish way of gap filling. It is an unfortunate side effect of our species flawed perceptions. A mere reflection of our evolutionary drive to continue.
