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This 4 page paper comprises 3 short essays on ancient religions and how they compare with today’s worship; gothic cathedrals; and the concept of the romantic hero. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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religions and their beliefs about the afterlife differ greatly from most modern religions; since this paper is so short, well compare three early religious systems to Christianity. The Greeks appear
to have had a rather bleak view of the afterlife: most people went to the Underworld, ruled by the god Hades, where they wandered aimlessly in a vague, shadowy existence
(Greco-Roman religious beliefs). The very heroic were granted passage to the Elysian Fields, a paradise; the very sinful were sent to Tartarus, which appears to have been the equivalent of
the Christian Hell (Greco-Roman religious beliefs). But even though the afterlife wasnt particularly pleasant, the Greeks had no fear of it because only the worst of the worst were sent
to Tartarus (Greco-Roman religious beliefs). The ancient Babylonians were even bleaker in their outlook than the Greeks. For them, death was a fearful thing and a "source of great despair"
(Kramer, 2008). In Babylonian teaching there was no reward for good deeds or a decent life; upon their death everyone was sent to the underworld, where they continued as disembodied
spirits in an existence that was "at best only a dismal, wretched reflection of life on earth" (Kramer, 2008). Finally, lets consider the Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us
some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that was much like this one (Lewis, 2007). Different parts of self experienced the afterlife differently, with
the "ba" as the spirit or soul (Lewis, 2007). The soul would have to appear before Osiris and 42 judges and give an account of his or her life, after
which the heart was weighed (Lewis, 2007). If the heart was too heavy (sinful) the person was destroyed; if the heart was light, they continued into the afterlife, which, as
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