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Key posted...

for all of you who are actually religious and have read the bible I have a question. I often here that if you reject god/don't believe in him you will goto hell. is that really how it's taught? Like what if someone is a great person who helped better the world. Either through discovering the cure for some disease or dedicating their life to helping those in need or whatever. Are they still damned if they don't believe in God? That's pretty harsh if true.

Not Christian here, but the concept of hell actually doesn't exist in more minor branches like the Jehovah's Witnesses. However, Catholics have a specific concept for dealing with this; purgatory. It's a realm where good or otherwise neutral non-believers either are put for eternity or until they are 'purified' (depending on interpretation).