This is not a new subject to religion. Nor is it a readily resolvable one. Where does Hell exist? Who came up with the idea? How has the name originated? Where are these people now? What started this belief in the afterlife? I am staunch in my belief that these are not new questions to many of you. Through my thourough research on the subject, and sapience by canvassing other belief-systems I have decided quite a few things about it. Many of which, I am sure most people where unaware of. This is not a new subject to religion. Nor is it a readily resolvable one. Where does Hell exist? Who came up with the idea? How has the name originated? Where are these people now? What started this belief in the afterlife? I am staunch in my belief that these are not new questions to many of you. Through my thourough research on the subject, and sapience by canvassing other belief-systems I have decided quite a few things about it. Many of which, I am sure most people where unaware of.

Most religions are formulated as an excersize and explanation for the unexplained. And the point in which these systems transmute into a definable "Religion" is when they have established a direct inference into the divigation of positive and negative alignments. Meaning derriving such beliefs in "Good" and "Evil", "Light" and "Darkness", and lest we forget; "Heaven" and "Hell". Although, this is not true with ALL religions, but those which are most "popular" so-to-speak. (Judging that their "popularity" is biased upon the illusion of a greater balence factor for simpler minds.)

Some religions hold belief in only a place of paradise and feel indiferent towards a place of eternal tourment. Most others harbor credibility in both. It is what keeps followers in line. They require a punnishment and reward system in order to encourage more "virtuous" behaviour in their followers. As soon as they astray from their path of virtue they are always confronted with the mental road block of the afterlife, and the very possibility of Hell. When they seem to do good they reward themselves subconsciously with the promising aspects of the Pearly Gates when they die. Meaning in retrospect that this provides confusion, unessential anxiety, staganating forethought, and overall mental suppression. (As proven in the past many many times before, the afterlife is not the most healthy thing for the human psyche.)

Let's examine the behavior in most Christians from birth to death: You are born into a Christian family, brought into Christian Church Services since you were an infant, and then before a Baptismal Font. From the age of which you can speak and understand verbal conversation, you are braught into Sunday School Class. Here you have a pre-made readily available explanation for the creation of our Universe and just how it works - spoon fed directly into your sponge-like mind. Here is where it sits, with all preconcieved notions of our universe, what happens when you die, and the complexities of our creation ready for disposal. Basically an inborn booby-trap.

This fear of Hell resides inside ones subconscious, generates an ever-deepening fear, and blockades alot of the normal healthy and productive behaviour towards perfectly descent human goals. Which is, in reality, a counter-productive thought process. One of which that only propagates itself exponantially through generizational Christian heritage. A big ol' monkey wrench in the Satanic Plan. Nothing worse than ignorance that begets ignorance. Sometimes a disease only curable by death.

The most sure way to "cure" any fear is to expose onself to the truths behind that fear, and break it down into definable parts and explanations. Almost a quantifiable way to drop defenses for an all-out feed-my-mind brainwash-O-thon. Just yet another FEAR our victim in question has yet to subjugate. One of which, if he or she does, provides us with that ever-so-strange word: Hope. Hope for a chance at liberation from this immure.

So, off we tredge into the origins of Hell itself. Starting with the very name we use for it today. In Norse mythology, Hel (Just ONE "L" now) is the ruler of Helheim, the realm of the dead. She is the youngest child of the evil god Loki and the giantess Angrboda. She is usually described as a horrible hag, half alive and half dead, with a gloomy and grim expression. Her face and body are those of a living woman, but her thighs and legs are those of a corpse, mottled and moldering. The gods had abducted Hel and her brothers from Angrboda's hall. They cast her in the underworld, into which she distributes those who are send to her; the wicked and those who died of sickness or old age. Her hall in Helheim is called Eljudnir, home of the dead. Her manservant is Ganglati and her maidservant is Ganglot (which both can be translated as "tardy" of which that has also transposed into the infamous "Tarterous".) A name that those first formulating the Old Testiment of The Holy Bible have used to describe their chosen place of tourment.

There are also many others that have proceeded that particular label. Hades: A Greek place of the dead from mythology later transcribed by Christian writers. Gehenna: A place outside of Jerusalem where garbage and waste was burned (i.e. fire and brimstone) Sheol: The original name devised for Hell when the first part of scripture that mentioned it was created. Tarteros: The abode of fallen angels located in the center of the Earth, by early alchemists. ALL literary inventions from other sources. Displaying just how faulty, (like any religious device) this artifice really is.

So, next time you hear someone scold you and exclaim to you that you will burn in the fiery pits for eternity, perhaps you should give them a piece of your mind before-hand. And enlighten them to the fact that to be a Christian, everyone of them has a wee bit of Neo-Pagan in them.