so many religions, such as the religion of ancient egypt, for instance,whi which made a great fetish of this, has a belief in a judgment after death, followed by eternal retribution  er, heaven effectively for the just and er, damnation effectively for the unjust, and some religions like catholicism stick in an intermediate state  pur purgatory, where you can work, work off a sentence, as it were , for a few, for a few thousand years.