Hell and Paradise - everyone heard these words, regardless of religion. Of course, not everyone believes in their existence, but vague suspicions visited probably everyone - even atheists. Indeed, it is not for nothing that (as many think) almost in every religion identical places are mentioned!
And the truth - it’s difficult to find a faith in which a person after death is not rewarded for his earthly affairs: with happiness - for righteousness, with torment - for sinfulness. Buddhism, Krishnaism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity - this is not alien to any of the world religions.
One of the few systems that do not recognize Hell or Paradise is paganism. According to his postulates, after death, a person is given the likeness of another life, in which there will be both good and bad - just like in the real world.
But still, back to the more categorical religions. This article will examine three of them: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam.
Probably everyone knows what Hell looks like in Christianity. This religion is already very popular not only in life, but also in film screenings, literature, and painting.
So, sinners who believe in Christ, but do not keep the commandments, after death will fall (or rather, their soul will fall) into a terrible place: dark, filled with smoke, sulfur and fire. And forever - until a terrible judgment breaks out, they will be subjected to cruel tortures there. Demons will fry them on fire, poke with pitchforks and sharp tails, and Lucifer - a fallen angel and concurrently the master of hell - will chew on those who committed especially terrible crimes. Since Hell looks very intimidating, and smells there accordingly, sinners will experience both moral and aesthetic torment. It’s easy enough to believe in the latter, but physical suffering is doubtful - after all, only one soul enters the underworld, the body remains on the ground … Well, that’s not very important.
With Paradise, Christians are simple - this is a place where righteous people fall, beautiful and divine. There, souls can continue to lead a righteous life, communicate with angels, and indulge in other sinless amusements.
It is pointless to write about Islam in such detail, since Hell there looks about the same, with the only difference being that sinners greatly increase in size: "… and their tooth is the size of a mountain." This should cause an increase in their anguish.
But the paradise of the admirers of Allah is somewhat more interesting - in addition to the blooming gardens, it also has beautiful virgins, with whom the righteous can indulge in amusements (I wonder how innocent).
Buddhist ideas are quite close to pagan. Not a single bearer of this faith will answer unambiguously what Hell looks like. This religion suggests that there are a great many parallel worlds - some are better, some are worse, in one of which a person gets after death. Moreover, his soul does not go there by itself, but in a new body.
So, an unrighteous person can not only go to one of the many Hades (and there are more than a thousand), but also be born in the body of an animal. In the same way, a cat can become a man after death, and a representative of Homo Sapiens can end up in Nirvana (a kind of paradise) or just get a different, better fate.
Another thing is that all this can be a simple invention. After all, doctors justifiably explain the visions of dying Hell or Paradise to death hallucinations.
