Correct, but through cultural osmosis, a lot of The Divine Comedy has become indistinguishable from their actual beliefs or is just head-canon for people. (Its not like most of em read or understand their books anyway)
Plus, Dante was a mad lad and wrote a bunch of people he did not like (including 2 popes) into his funny hell fanfic.
The history and context of its writing is half the fun. Its a spite filled romp through a roman flavored cross-polinated afterlife. There are tons of things that modern bible folk would whinge at if you point out the hipocracy. Like how they discount all previous pantheons, yet characters from greek and roman myth canonically are present in Inferno, Chiron is not only alive in ring 7, he is also gainfully employed peppering arrows at one souls attempting to leave one of hells many boiling water features. Its all one grand myth, polytheism, monotheism, its all connected through stories humans tell themselves.
If you beleive its sources are real, you do you, I dont judge. If you dont, thats good too, but remember a majority of the people on this planet do and are less likely to act with logic and reason as a primary prerogative. Its handy to know their lore so you know what to say to get them to leave you alone.
Correct, but through cultural osmosis, a lot of The Divine Comedy has become indistinguishable from their actual beliefs or is just head-canon for people. (Its not like most of em read or understand their books anyway)
Plus, Dante was a mad lad and wrote a bunch of people he did not like (including 2 popes) into his funny hell fanfic.
I mean, if any of this were real, there would absolutely be popes who ended up in hell.
Oh 100%
The history and context of its writing is half the fun. Its a spite filled romp through a roman flavored cross-polinated afterlife. There are tons of things that modern bible folk would whinge at if you point out the hipocracy. Like how they discount all previous pantheons, yet characters from greek and roman myth canonically are present in Inferno, Chiron is not only alive in ring 7, he is also gainfully employed peppering arrows at one souls attempting to leave one of hells many boiling water features. Its all one grand myth, polytheism, monotheism, its all connected through stories humans tell themselves.
If you beleive its sources are real, you do you, I dont judge. If you dont, thats good too, but remember a majority of the people on this planet do and are less likely to act with logic and reason as a primary prerogative. Its handy to know their lore so you know what to say to get them to leave you alone.