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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I think Hades is not the same as Hell. Hades is where all the dead go in Greek Mythology. Hell is where only sinners go to be tortured for eternity in modern Christianity.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Yup. In Greek mythology the underworld is split into different parts. There's a part where heroes go, a part where average people wander around for eternity, Tartarus where the titans are held and then there's a part where people are published. I think Sisyphus is punished in the underworld but I could be misremembering.

Edit: punished not published.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

and then there’s a part where people are published

So like...if you're an amateur writer in life, after death there's still hope to go pro?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Hadn't even noticed the autocorrect fuck up. Thanks, going to leave it for your joke to work.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If anyone would like a proper education on the levels of Hades, play Hades!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It was actually the Rick Riordan books that I learnt that from.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is Christianity the only religion where The dead are tortured and punished forever? Most religions it's more like a purgatory or some whole other realm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Hades - as per Odyssey - is a cold and barren place, no place for anyone to want to go to. So, while, tortured, no, it's no fun.

But EVERY religion, devised as system of ethics where morals don't work, needs to threaten a punishment for people who break the rules in life. Otherwise it doesn't really work as a deterrent.