Its heaven and hell for everyone. For the child molesters and animal beaters its hell. You do good you give back to society you go to heaven unless your a politician
I was raised in a Christian home, but what happens to the millions who die every week of different faiths, religions, and beliefs? Was I raised wrong?
That's the problem with organized religion. Each one thinks that theirs is the ONLY correct one and those that don't believe as they do, die and stay in limbo.
I was also raised in a Christian home....I have since took a step back and looked at what I've been taught. My conclusion.....a bunch of hokey baloney. Depending on where you or your ancestors were born is what you were taught about religion. Each religion claims to be "correct" in their beliefs and everyone else is just wrong. To me, it's a great way to control massive populations and line the pockets of a few.
You were programmed to believe. This was likely well-intentioned, but presents many issues with reality. Belief exists where reason and fact aren't engaged, and freethinking is discouraged. Look seriously into the tenets of your religion (even other faiths if you care to, all are very similar) with an objective eye, examine whatever evidence you can find, decide for yourself what is or is not worth believing.
To be candid, organized religion serves only the interests and propagation of the clergy, nothing more.
I find it always pertinent to identify what we are talking about.
I assume you are talking about religion defined as: a particular system of faith and worship.
I'll get back to that in a minute.
There is a second definition: The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
OK, I'm a Catholic; just so you know where I'm coming from.
Here's how I look at it.
If you believe in Christianity, you have a leg up on truth---conformity of the mind to that which exists---thanks to the efforts of your parents in thinking that the existence of a God was not a matter of flipping a coin and then finding reasons to support the result when you got older.
And that's the added value of being raised in a Christian home.
For everyone else---atheists of all persuasions, various other particular systems of faith and worship---if in honestly seeking Truth do not find what they consider to be what for us believers is "God"---I suspect that they have been seeking God all along.
And since God knows everything, He knew that they were still seeking Him and I suspect that will have found Him.
You should know that such opinions as I have just offered tend to get me characterized as a "rabid Catholic" and "delusional" by some (I stress it's only some) atheists on this site.
My only comment on that is that if it pleases them to think of me in that way, then they should feel free to use me thusly---whatever.
If you believe in the teachings of the Bible (New Testament) ... Then since the only way to Heaven is through following Jesus, everyone of any other religion goes to Hell. No matter how good they were.
According to Christian teaching, they are lost. (Jesus said, "No man cometh to the father but by me." -- John 14:6). Don't fret about it. They all think their religion is the right one, too, and wonder how Christians get off on being so confident.
But it's a good question and perhaps a step on the road to wisdom. Once you begin to question the beliefs you were fed in your Christian upbringing, you're on the way to knowledge. Whether that knowledge leads to a deeper conviction or total rejection will depend on how you assess what you learn.
Your thinking is good. Try to research every religion. Which gives you mental pleasure that is right.
Try to find, and read "Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett. You'll get some thought-provoking insight into how man created gods and not vice-versa. To some extent, he also explains why.
There is nothing wrong with having a faith, but if, as "Jesus of the bible" says, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.", then there are billions of lost souls out there (and in some versions of Christian thinking, they are all roasting in hell).
Believe what you want to believe, and take comfort in your faith if that works for you.