Hindu hell

[purplepurpose]

[Jackie]

[Angrboda]

I see that your text is from Wikipedia. Not that it matters in this case, but you should always cite your sources.

[WinterHold]

[onlinebiker]

Even worse - a Tuesday afternoon in Gary Indiana.

[purplepurpose]

Even worse - a Tuesday afternoon in Gary Indiana.

In russia.

[Jackie]

It is an absolute myth that only the big three religions of Abraham have concepts of punishment in the afterlife.

Even Japan and China and Tibet have their histories of claiming punishment in the afterlife and underworlds.

Most humans worldwide, in antiquity had bad guesses as to magical punishment/reward motifs.

Humans mistook good and bad being regulated from a divine place, be it a god world or spirit world or reincarnation. It is our species false perception that morality is something super natural.

Probably a clue that all religions in the world did start from the same point, with each culture twisting the original faith according to its own culture. One example is how the "one Christianity" turned into 3, and the "one Islam" turned into 2, and so on.

That's why everybody has news of a hell after death for sinners.

Um no, human writing is only about 10,000 years old. Mythology existed worldwide independently, with no connection to other societies, yet still, humans came up with similar superstitions. The Aboriginals as well as the Chinese as well as Native Americans, all had their independent BAD GUESSES as to patterns in the stars, and gave names to deities and spirits as far as the false perceptions in the shapes they perceived. 

Most humans do have some superstition about punishment/reward, yes. But really all that is is our species projecting it's own qualities, desires in super natural form. 

Our species evolved to socialize, and form groups. So as a result, anything that hurt the local group, local individual was seen as bad, anything that was seen to benefit the local group/individual was seen as good. The mistake all of antiquity made worldwide, was assigning natural events and our species behaviors to fictional projections of human qualities. The word for that is "anthropomorphism."

[Angrboda]

It is an absolute myth that only the big three religions of Abraham have concepts of punishment in the afterlife.

Even Japan and China and Tibet have their histories of claiming punishment in the afterlife and underworlds.

Most humans worldwide, in antiquity had bad guesses as to magical punishment/reward motifs.

Humans mistook good and bad being regulated from a divine place, be it a god world or spirit world or reincarnation. It is our species false perception that morality is something super natural.

Probably a clue that all religions in the world did start from the same point, with each culture twisting the original faith according to its own culture. One example is how the "one Christianity" turned into 3, and the "one Islam" turned into 2, and so on.

That's why everybody has news of a hell after death for sinners.

That same point from which all religions likely emanate is called the imagination. Human nature and the commonalities of the human mind explain religions such as Islam far better than supposing the existence of Allah and the divine inspiration of his messenger. The same thing is at work when you imagine that the world is evidence for design. But rather than acknowledge the obvious human origins, you choose to live in denial in favor of wishful thinking and the worship of an imaginary god.

[Duty]

Wandering the earth for millennia as a "hungry ghost" famished is one punishment for killing bugs etc according to the Buddhism of Gesha Kelsang Gyatso. And to think this Buddhism is practised and promoted by many so-called middle-class intellectuals in the UK. Sad.

[purplepurpose]

Wandering the earth for millennia as a "hungry ghost" famished is one punishment for killing bugs etc according to the Buddhism of Gesha Kelsang Gyatso. And to think this Buddhism is practised and promoted by many so-called middle-class intellectuals in the UK. Sad.

You gotta admit, followers of such belief are really brave people. It's a pure mind torture to believe in such stuff.