In primitive cultures, indigenous and African ones, the idea that man could be punished (or glorified) after death never existed. Those who died or was removed from the memories of people or, if he was a leader, reincarnate. The concept of an afterlife was born in the second millennium BC In some Egyptian texts mention is made in the presence of a sort of celestial court condemning the deceased to fall into hell "strangely" very similar then to the one described by Dante Alighieri. This conception of Hell is not swept away, so much so that in Homer's Greece souls were nothing but shadows of people hell-deposit. Hell even in the Old Testament is that of Dante, the place is the sheol and there are all the dead, good and bad. The hell imagined by Christians today appeared only in the second century BC, when the sheol became a place of punishment intended to atheists and sinners, as opposed to the place of bliss on the upper floors of the afterlife. From that moment on, the Christian concept of hell became stronger and more truculent, made of fire, darkness and pain. Add iniquities, the Christian was superlative, as it has also made hell forever and forever. The theologian Origen (third century. DC) had also explained that it could not be eternal damnation, but the Catholic Church did not heed. Indeed, he immersed himself more and more to build a strong architecture that would manage the mechanism of post mortem punishment . There was so successful that even today this childish view of hell is able to convince many people and in a way to educate their children. Hell is also recognized by Protestants, but for them it is just a metaphor popular. Islam has inherited from Jews and Christians the worst of hell: the djahannam, place full of monsters and anxiety. But djahannam is not eternal, and there is room for forgiveness. Softer is the punishment in the afterlife of Eastern religions, consists almost always opportunities to reincarnate, while hell is associated with your physical body, an element of sin and prison of the soul. Curious and disturbing fate of sinners according to the Jehovah's Witnesses for exactly one thousand years after Armageddon (the battle between God and Satan) they will simply be destroyed.
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