I find it very difficult to believe in a heaven or hell. Besides their being virtually no evidence for heaven or hell, there is ton of evidence against it. Looking at patterns of wishful thinking, you can see why humans have invented the idea of heaven and hell. However, the true reason for heaven and hell lies within the root of religion. Religion can be pictured as a economic race in the early 1900s. Each factory had to pay low wages and have cruel conditions simply because if they did not they would be out-produced by other companies. A religion meanwhile, has to employ the idea of a heaven and hell if another religion does even if it does not hold true to its values. Heaven and hell not only allows the person to have an eternal life, but it also lets people be confident that the only way to do this is by following a certain spiritual path. Although you may be thinking, just because somebody believes in something does not mean it will happen, yet people will make themselves think many things if it allows order and happiness from their chaotic lives even when it is not clearly not true. By simply accepting without questioning, these people have a resistance to look at these ideas in a logical way. Some may say: So be it, live and let live. Unfortunately, on the opposite spectrum of heaven is, hell. Hell is a place where people have eternal torture, and apart from this being immoral, they believe that anyone of a different religion will undergo this faith. But even if their was a haven and hell, how could somebody possibly tell since there is a certain incomprehensibility of god. What if the god sent all humans to heaven, or all humans to hell? What if god valued people who questioned religion instead of those who supported it? Is their anyways to know who good would sent to heaven and hell? No. Yet people constantly discriminate against other and believe that they will go to hell if they do not believe a similar faith as them. But the most dangerous proponent of heaven and hell is that there is an eternal life. This allows people to concern themselves with their personal matters of if they are going to “make” haven or not, instead of trying to focus their attention on the future of humanity. Religion can allow death to be a much more welcome thought, which it should definitely not be. I think that heaven and hell can be replaced by a more natural idea of death that will inspire equal awe and wonder