Do you believe in hell and heaven if so why?

[Anonymous]

Yes

No

[abc3643]

Of course I do!
It was a great album by Black Sabbath! From 1980, it was the first Black Sabbath album with Ronnie James Dio replacing Ozzy Osbourne as lead singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnWsRUKGDeo

Here is the late, great Ronnie James Dio in a cameo in "Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNElqpUxgEo

I was fortunate enough to see Black Sabbath and Ronnie James Dio on tour with Blue Öyster Cult in October 1980 as they were promoting their albums. BÖC's excellent 1980 album was Cultösaurus Erectus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSB77e6c94A

[strateguy632]

I actually saw hell... in a southpark episode. But seriously, words have meaning... the word "hell" means something, so people can't just make up "water" refers to those potatoes sold at mcd... or heaven is where mormons decorate egg cartons or hell is where people who stayed home insted of church, have homes and meet each other and date prince satan...

[strateguy632]

So yes i believe those are real as above they have meaning. And why... is because here no justice, so must be justice for bad people, and since god is the judge he gets to decide that sinners are bad.

[strateguy632]

In fact it is the ONLY detail where major religions agree with each other! Hindu heaven and hell are described in mahabharta, jesus described hell, jehena of islam... from all the disputes! this is the most confirmed, agreed upon part! The only difference is who goes there "not me, them" each say but all AGREE.

[strateguy632]

I know... hindu is reincarnation... but it also has hell... stop asking and drink some more tea.

[Anonymous]

No. I believe people made it up as a story to try and trick other people into behaving better. They say things like if you be a good person you will go to heaven and be a bad person you go to hell.

[strateguy632]

Wrong, we tell kids "santa won't give you presents" if you are bad, nothing to do with hell.

[RedTiefling]

No way, you get one life. Being dead is just like before you were born.

Religion has evolved over the last couple thousand years, but it started as a way to explain what we didn't understand. Then it turned into a way to control the masses, and it finally landed in more of a lifestyle/therapeutic choice.

[strateguy632]

Well said... all of it included the first part about the body... but if a person loses a hand or arm it is still them each part can lose part and still be you... so you are not your body... must be a soul. Check limb by limb. Each arm , kidney transplant, heart transplant, nose each ear each section of brain... in fractions, lost, is still you.

[RedTiefling]

My man, we are a temporary mass of organized matter.

A wave of chemical music who's songs one day will end.

The idea you're poking at is the "Ship of Theseus" thought experiment.

My initial response was about whether or not heaven and hell existed, nothing related to soul.

If you want to ask me a soul question I'll tango with you.

[strateguy632]

Again you described body here. But the question hell related to soul not body.

[strateguy632]

The ship you mentioned differed due to switched parts, but i mean without switching. Just "lost" as i wrote. The exception was heart so would not die.

[genericname85]

i think they are usefull concepts to describe euphoria and depression, of which heaven and hell could be abstractions of. but i don't believe in them as actuall places "our souls go some day".

[Danny_dan92]

Nope. It just plays to the fear every single person has of death. Because we all only live once

[AngryCarl2]

I don't believe in Heaven. I think Hell exists on Earth. Mostly in Africa.

[TonyMetal___86]

Yes but not specifically the way they describe them!

[beenherebefore]

I believe in Heaven, I don't think about Hell.

[loveyouoak]

I don't.

[jahaims]

No, common sense

[888theGreat]

I had an experience