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There is no such thing as Hell, nor is there a Heaven.  Religion is a man-made construct.

And even though it is false, there is nothing wrong with religion.  Its natural for human being to believe in supernatural and see patterns or truths where they dont exist. I'm an athiest and I have lucky items (though I dont actually believe they do anything it just brings me comfort to have them).

Think about it this way, an early human in a forest hears the rustle of leaves that could be a predator or nothing at all. He can make two types of errors, assuming that the noise is caused by a predator when it is nothing at all, or assuming that it is nothing when it is a predator. The human who always assumes that it is predator, finding a absolute pattern or truth in nature where none actually exists, has a higher chance of survival. Thats is what religion and mythology, a truth that humans assume to be true when no such truth exists.