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20 comments to "Heaven and Hell, According to Various Religions."
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security
March 23rd, 2007 at
3:28 am
Good article,
Here is an interesting image for Purgatory
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pur_18.jpg
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Kuro
March 23rd, 2007 at
4:05 am
“Hades represents the place of eternal punishment for evildoers”
Not really. The Hades is a normal place for the dead to “live” in. The Tartarus is the place where “evildoers” and more frequently all those who offended or fought against the Gods are taken and eternally kept or punished. -
Runa
March 23rd, 2007 at
5:43 am
Interesting article,
unlikely there’s nothing about nordic mythology, with Walhol and Hel.
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charles
March 23rd, 2007 at
6:47 am
intersting story.
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james
March 23rd, 2007 at
7:43 am
which one do you go to if you dont believe in heaven or hell? quick i need saving.
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HappyChap
March 23rd, 2007 at
9:16 am
Hell
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loorah
March 23rd, 2007 at
9:46 am
… Jews don’t really HAVE a hell. Just heaven. The “bad people” go to a different part of heaven is all. No burning in the core of the earth for the Jews!
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L.B. Jeffries
March 23rd, 2007 at
11:24 am
Kuro
Beat me to it. Hades isn’t a place of torment except for special few assholes. Mostly it’s just a bunch of dudes sitting around chatting about how much better life was when they were alive. It isn’t a punishment, it’s just funner to be alive. Like Achilles said, it’s better to be a dirt farmer than King of the Underworld.
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L.B. Jeffries
March 23rd, 2007 at
11:25 am
Kuros beat me to it. This guy has clearly never read the Odyssey if that’s what he thinks the Greek Afterlife is like.
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ch1ll3v
March 23rd, 2007 at
12:29 pm
You posted a picture of Muhammad!!!! Now all hell is gonna break loose! WAY TO GO.
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LeSigh
March 23rd, 2007 at
3:05 pm
Funny how he only presents the Western Christian view of heaven and hell. Eastern Orthodox Christians have an entirely different view on the whole kit and kaboodle. Hell and heaven are the same ‘place’, standing before God. God himself is the fire, and one’s relation to God determines whether they experience His presence as paradise (heaven) or agony (hell).
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astanhope
March 23rd, 2007 at
9:40 pm
Neat roundup. Needs some tuning by those heathens over at Mental Floss. See you guys in purgatory!
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Jacques
March 23rd, 2007 at
9:46 pm
Seven examples of religious lunacy to comfort me while enjoying a glass of Cotes du Rhone on a friday night. There is no god, idiots.
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Nick
March 24th, 2007 at
12:19 am
Thankyou, Jacques. Your comment was the straw that broke the camel’s back of my belief in heaven and hell. Lucky you were here to tell me there is no god. Otherwise I would have walked around in ignorance for the rest of my life. Fantastic post, Jacques.
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beajerry
March 24th, 2007 at
1:45 am
I didn’t know Dora The Explorer is based on The Way To Nirvana!
Swiper is the devil.
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thegr8uv
March 24th, 2007 at
3:07 pm
The concepts of heaven and hell for Hinduism in this article are not entirely accurate. ‘Samsara’ merely means the world. Hindu’s do have concepts of heaven and hell. Hell or ‘Narak’ is a place ruled by the God Yama. Unlike other religions, Yama is not ‘Satan’, but a God, i.e he is not evil. He is virtuous and torments evil doers and lets good humans pass to heaven. He is assisted by an ‘accountant of doings’ called Chitragupta.
Heaven is more complicated. According to Hinduism, there are 7 levels of heaven. Samsara being the lowest level, that is the mortal earth. The level that all other religions associate with heaven is called ‘Swarg’ which is place of plenty and happiness. The highest level is God or ‘Brahman’ himself, when the spirit becomes one with God, and is thus relieved from the cycle of birth and death, i.e attains ‘Moksha’.
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Ali
March 26th, 2007 at
12:28 pm
Nothing about Cthulhu?!
Heathens! Bow down to the Elder God!!
*thunder crashes and puppies and kittens combust into flames*
Bwahahahahaha!! O_o
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Ed Viswanathan
May 3rd, 2007 at
3:25 pm
You are 100% stating ” Eastern religions don’t really have notions of heaven like those in the West. Instead, they usually offer some kind of release from illusion and suffering in the present world. ”
Heaven & Hell are very important in Islam & Christianity. In Hinduism they are NOT important.
“ The words heaven and hell have connotations that have crept in as a result of exposure to western culture†even though the words heaven [SWARGA ] & hell [NARAKA ] appear in Rig Veda.
Only thing I infer from reading Vedas & Upanishads, is heaven [SWARGA ] and hell [NARGA ] are NOT permanent places where soul rests but “way stations†for short sojourn. After that they come back to earth again to continue their life.
Man’s problem is his ignorance of his true nature that he is the immortal soul due to MAYA [illusion] and until and unless he realizes that he is the immortal soul – ATMAN within and not the perishable body, he will continuously undergo going to heaven & hell.
Adi Sankara stated, even celestial beings crave to have a human body since only being a human one can attain self-realization.
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mp3ler
May 5th, 2007 at
10:06 am
You posted a picture of Muhammad!!!! Now all hell is gonna break loose! WAY TO GO.
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Rajinder
January 3rd, 2008 at
10:49 am
All the religions interpret the concept of hell or heaven as per depicted in the holy books of their own religions.If we go little bit above these descriptions.i feel, it is simply a notion that those who accepts life as it comes and do not interfere the natural flow of gods orders and they have been chanting the name of god every moment in their hearts,they are just in heaven and vice versa in hell.There is no specific place where the god sits in the court and evaluate the sins and good doings of the masses.
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