Heaven and Hell

Abstract

Heaven is being in enduring joy. Hell is being in enduring misery. Heaven and hell are mutually exclusive. Those generalizations about the other life — a term that encompasses both heaven and hell—hold true for a wide variety of cultures. On a deep level they are eternalizations of the good or evil characters that people form for themselves in this life. Belief in good or evil is an almost universal concern of religions or “world views.”