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It is not an idea unique to Christianity or Catholics and was an idea and claim that was around in prior polytheism and existed even before the first human writings. It is a product of human ignorance.

It is a product of human ignorance. But it's also one of the ways christianity managed to draw greeks and romans to the fold in the first place. Both cultures didn't have the concept of an enjoyable afterlife. Remember the scene from the Odissee where Odisseus ventures to the underworld and meets the shadows of Achill and Agamemnon, who tell him, they would rather be slaves in life than be kings of the dead.

The only ones having a regional believe in a fullfilling afterlife were the Egyptians, who also had a concept of judgment day. The christians probably took some inspiration from there, since the jews didn't have that concept.