I saw this and you just posted about Dante, and I just quoted Jesus. I'll Google him and see if I can find his writings.

 

Fair Enough. Dante Alighieri won't pose any problems for you to find info on. His Divine Comedy is an epic written about a dream he allegedly had wherein he traveled through Hell "Inferno", Purgatory "Purgatorio", and Heaven "Paradiso".

 

In Dante's Inferno, he speaks about traveling through the nine circles of Hell. Each circle progressively grows worse in it's misery than the previous, and each circle serves the purpose of punishing a specific type of sinner (in order: limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, treachery). Dante tells of famous committers of each type of sin whom he sees along the way; some are historical people, other are legendary, and others are mythological. All in all, it's VERY interesting to read - even if you get your hands on an abridged version. However, I don't believe that any of The Divine Comedy has ever been taken as any sort of "church teaching".

Fair Enough. Dante Alighieri won't pose any problems for you to find info on. His Divine Comedy is an epic written about a dream he allegedly had wherein he traveled through Hell "Inferno", Purgatory "Purgatorio", and Heaven "Paradiso".

 

In Dante's Inferno, he speaks about traveling through the nine circles of Hell. Each circle progressively grows worse in it's misery than the previous, and each circle serves the purpose of punishing a specific type of sinner (in order: limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, treachery). Dante tells of famous committers of each type of sin whom he sees along the way; some are historical people, other are legendary, and others are mythological. All in all, it's VERY interesting to read - even if you get your hands on an abridged version. However, I don't believe that any of The Divine Comedy has ever been taken as any sort of "church teaching".

 

Sounds interesting, thanks for the info, and I hope I wasn't sounding too negative on your post. I'm sorry if I was.

Sounds interesting, thanks for the info, and I hope I wasn't sounding too negative on your post. I'm sorry if I was.

 

Nope, not at all. :thumb:

Nope, not at all. :thumb:

Thanks, I really needed that.