For some odd reason I seem to remember that fact from a Comparative religion course I took some 30 odd years ago. Isn't that odd? They All believe in some sort of Heaven and Hell?
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2006-09-08 10:44:51 · 12 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It makes sense, if you think about it. Religion without a god or gods of some sort is almost a non-sequitur (those they do exist). And since God isn't sitting in your living room, he, she, it, or they must be somewhere else.
Which begs the question, I think, of what a religion without any dieties, devils, or other worlds would look like. Without too much of a stretch you end up with various systems of moral belief which are materialistic, philosophical, and pretty easy to find, if one only looks.
2006-09-08 10:59:34 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No actually they don't. Most religions believe in a paradise earth.
and death to the wicked. Jews believe that the wicked will die, Good people will live forever on the earth.
Indians of the Americas believe in the happy hunting ground.
Where deer there favorite food is abundant. Wicked people go back to the earth.
Many religions today believe that same way. Seventh day adventists, mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses.
the only scripture that says you won't die is when Satan told Eve in the garden of Eden. She told him God said if we eat the fruit we will die. Satan said, you won't really die at all.
Someone was lying either you die or you don't.
God even went further to describe what would happen to Adam.
For dust you are and to dust you will return. That is pretty plain.
This concept actually of heaven and hell came from pagan beliefs of the egyptians of the underworld of demons and devils.
which much later crept into Christianity. But it had a pagan orgin.
2006-09-08 17:55:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Earth based religions do not believe in a supreme evil.
I'm sure there are other religions that do not, however, the majority of the largest religions do have a supreme good and supreme evil and they often have many of the same traits that makes you wonder if they are not all talking about the same thing.
2006-09-08 17:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by Lee S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of it is symbolic -- it's a question of whether people take these things as literal. E.g. in Zen and other forms of buddhism, many of the stories, koans, sayings, etc. use concepts such as hell and heaven and 'hungry ghosts', etc. They're all symbolic for states of mind. Similar is christianity - people can take the symbols as metaphor or literal.
2006-09-08 17:53:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the Jewish religion believe in a heaven or a hell...it's not clearly stated. Some Jews do believe; others don't.
2006-09-08 17:50:21 · answer #5 · answered by Fatima 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, not all forms of Paganism recognise good and evil. Balance is what is important, one cannot without the other.
2006-09-08 17:51:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No they don't.
Try one of the Science of the Mind denominations.
There is no sin but wrong choice.
There is no punishment but consequence.
2006-09-08 17:53:09 · answer #7 · answered by justwondering 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. They don't.
There are no "evil" entities or hell in Wicca or Buddhism.
2006-09-08 17:50:00 · answer #8 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You forgot about Acunamatotta
2006-09-08 17:50:23 · answer #9 · answered by da_hammerhead 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no evil entities in spiritualism
lower spirit perhaps .. evil .. no
2006-09-08 17:57:55 · answer #10 · answered by Peace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋