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Most polytheistic religions (as most religions generally) include beliefs about what happens after you die. Generally, these beliefs fall into two groups:
1) There is an Otherworld that is not this world that the soul goes to. (What the other world is like is different from religion to religion. For example, Hellenic polytheists divide the afterlife into various realms: one for heroes in which there is constant feasting and merriment, one for people the gods particularly hate in which there is constant suffering, and a third and much larger world for the souls of normal, everyday people, which is sort of grey and uninteresting. By contrast, Kemetic polytheists believe in a single afterlife that is only for the righteous, and the souls of the unrighteous are destroyed. In the Kemetic afterworld, however, not everyone is treated the same even after passing the initial test. Further refinement is made according to what gods or goddesses the soul was devoted to and how faithfully the soul served.)
2) Souls are reincarnated into new bodies and reborn into this world.
3) A mixture of the two. Celtic polytheists, for example, had a belief that when you died, you went to another world that was much like the one you were currently living in, and that when you died in that world, you were reborn here. There is some historical record of contracts made in life that would be honored in the otherworld, or after a certain number of transitions.
Not all religions believe in after life. Christianity doesn't and I know this for a fact because I'm christen.
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Christians DO believe in the after life (john 3:16 anyone?)
As far as religions that don't believe in an after life, I know that Buddhism teaches you can reach Nirvana which is said to be the state you were at before you were born aka not existing anymore. That would basically mean no after life.
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Do babylonian believe in life after death?
Like most ancient peoples, the Sumerians/Babylonians were polytheistic, worshiping many gods.The Sumerians believed, in an afterlife.
Do all people need religion or some form of an afterlife or is it just our ego?
This is a very uneasy topic. There are people who have had contact to the afterlife or a form of after life. There are people who wish that there could be an afterlife, but don't believe in it. There are people who believe in a religion, and people who only believe in religion so they have something to emotionally attach themselves to.
Do hidus believe in the afterlife?
yes they do believe in afterlife
Do English people believe in the afterlife?
It completely depends on their religion.
What did Egytians believe about the afterlife?
What is the afterlife
Why is it that some people do not believe in an afterlife?
Why don't you believe in unicorns? Because it's stupid, illogical, and has no proof.
What is it called when you only believe in afterlife but not god?
AnswerIt is certainly not necessary to believe in the Abrahamic God to believe in an afterlife. Many religions offer hope for an afterlife in return for belief in their gods. However, to believe in an afterlife, but not believe in any gods, is a form of spiritualism.
How do you tell if you are polytheistic?
If you're polytheistic you worship or believe in more than one god.
Why most Americans are either polytheistic or monotheistic?
I've read that Americans are among the most religious people in the world. Usually religious people believe in God(s)--if you believe in one God, you are monotheistic (example Judaism). If you believe in many gods, you are polytheistic (example neo-Pagans). Simply because America is a multi-coultured nation where people from different nations are found and that's why we find most Americans polytheistic or monotheistic because they bond with the people around them.
What do Pastafarians believe about the afterlife?
Pastafarians believe that the afterlife is full of beer volcanoes and stripper factories.
Did Athenian people only believe in one god?
Ancient Greeks were polytheistic. They worshiped many gods.
What did people in ancient china do for people when they died?
well, because they were buried with these items. on the journey to the afterlife they take these valuable item with them so they are rich in the afterlife and have a righteous afterlife for all eternity
