Comparing Heaven And Hell, Valhalla & Helheim, And

Heaven & Hell, Valhalla & Helheim, and Elysium & Tartarus, are a few examples of where people, over time have, through the idea of religion, have imagined where the human soul goes after a person’s death. But what is religion? How does one define the idea of religion? In many cases people can mistake religion for a cult or perhaps just a well written story. It’s important for a person to be able to make the distinction between an idea of faith and the fantasies of a man or else that person may go through the rest of their lives believing in a false doctrine. Perhaps religion is a way of thinking, a type of moral compass, that gives people assurance that there is order and meaning to life.
Religion is an idea. The idea of religion is a construct of ideas, that form the basis of morals, and brings a community together. Religion has always been a way to explain what humanity hasn’t been able to explain through logical reasoning. The modern definition in …show more content…
The idea of escaping the suffering and pain of the mortal world stands true for most religions. For the Vikings it was Valhalla, for the Greeks it was Elysium, and for Hinduism, it is, “Swarga Loka” (Jayaram V, 2015). Religion is a way of explaining the natural world when there was no one to explain what happened, and even to this day, humanity has no idea what happens after a person dies, only speculation left to the imagination can answer a question that has no one answer. Bowker explains that in this life we set out for a goal of what is valuable or worthy of us and even beyond death, which is what we all have in common in religion. (Bowker,