[...one day. One day, people will pause before they ask for The Gospel According To Alfred, and they will question whether they really want to hear anything he could possibly have to say about this.
HOWEVER, APPARENTLY TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY.]
Well, where I'm from, one of the major religions believes that when you die, you either go to Heaven, Purgatory or Hell. Heaven is where people go if they've lived in a way that can be considered kissing up to God and having no life otherwise, and they're all pious and holy and spend all their time...well, kissing up to God and having no afterlife. Choirs of angels and wings everywhere and harps and fluffy clouds and all that. Supposedly no suffering, either, so at least there's that.
No one really agrees on what Purgatory even is, so don't ask me. It's just somewhere you go if you weren't a perfect sweetheart, but at the same time you hadn't angered God enough for Him to kick you out of his domain. It's supposed to purify your sins if you're there long enough, and then you get to move on to Heaven as a reward.
Hell is where the wicked go to burn for what they did - the ones who have angered God to the point that he wants nothing to do with them. So they're cast down into eternal suffering and misery; there's lakes of fire and massive serpents, and it's run by the fallen angel Lucifer, whose job it is to punish everyone there and make sure their afterlives are as terrible as possible.
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HOWEVER, APPARENTLY TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY.]
Well, where I'm from, one of the major religions believes that when you die, you either go to Heaven, Purgatory or Hell. Heaven is where people go if they've lived in a way that can be considered kissing up to God and having no life otherwise, and they're all pious and holy and spend all their time...well, kissing up to God and having no afterlife. Choirs of angels and wings everywhere and harps and fluffy clouds and all that. Supposedly no suffering, either, so at least there's that.
No one really agrees on what Purgatory even is, so don't ask me. It's just somewhere you go if you weren't a perfect sweetheart, but at the same time you hadn't angered God enough for Him to kick you out of his domain. It's supposed to purify your sins if you're there long enough, and then you get to move on to Heaven as a reward.
Hell is where the wicked go to burn for what they did - the ones who have angered God to the point that he wants nothing to do with them. So they're cast down into eternal suffering and misery; there's lakes of fire and massive serpents, and it's run by the fallen angel Lucifer, whose job it is to punish everyone there and make sure their afterlives are as terrible as possible.