I'm rereading the Book of Enoch, since I forgot everything from the first time I read it.

Most of, if not all (I haven't read them all.) the religious texts. . .they seem to be based on manipulating behaviour via bribery and/or extortion. Act like this, you'll end up in paradise, act like that and you'll end up in Hell FOREVER.

OK, I've read a lot of stuff. I'm a metaphysical researcher amongst other things, and also an NDE case. That's not how it works. You move on from here, and you get recycled if that's necessary; and you move on to higher realms if your evolved enough. You end up where you need to be in order to find your way back to Source in however many lifetimes in whatever realm you're in, as it takes.

Personally, I consider HELL to be trapt on the wheel of reincarnation for basically countless times. But on the other hand, what's a billion years in eternity, huh?

And isn't mixing religion with government policy grand? Inquisition? Albigensian Crusade? The Crusades s a whole? Afghanistan? KSA? FGM? Half the population considered nothing but second class citizen kitchen slave, breeder cows in much of the Middle East, Africa, parts of South of the Border, and parts of Asia? I'm not even gonna start on Israel, or should I say Khazaria II?