Religion In Dante's Inferno

Most modern day organized religions are to say the least, excruciatingly judgemental. If you do something that they deem to be wrong or bad you are going to their version of hell. This thought process is extremely prevalent in the modern day secs of the christian religion. This is the religion that Dante was apart of in his life and one of his inspirations to write the Inferno. Other than the Bible Dante's Inferno is the main references of what hell might actually be and look like. When people talk about hell they are most likely talking about Dante's version of it. Basically everything that Dante said was bad and that people were going to hell for is what people in modern day western sects of christianity believe people will go to hell for,

In the Inferno francesca says: “Love, that in gentle heart is quickly learnt, / Entangled him by that fair form, from me / Ta’en in such cruel sort, as grieves me still: / Love, that denial takes from none beloved, / Caught me with pleasing him so passing well, / That, as thou seest, he yet deserts me not. / Love brought us to one death: Caïna waits / The soul, who spilt our life.” (Inferno. 5.100-106) In these lines she is talking about how her affair with Palo has lead them to hell. She also talks about how her husband who killed them both has a special place in hell in the ninth circle in Caïna for betraying his kin by killing his wife and brother. Caïna being named after Cain from the bible who committed the first murder against his brother Abel (Genesis 4:8) which is another one of the places in Dante's inferno that may have started some of the modern thinking that betraying your family is an inherent sin that will land you right into the lowest place of

Dante sure did seem to dislike people who were to perscribed to the christian faith, going as far to put them all in Hell. In the inferno Dante writes “They sinned not; yet their merit lacked its chiefest / Fulfillment, lacking baptism, which is / The gateway to the faith which thou believest; / Or, living before Christendom, their knees / Paid not aright those tributes that belong / To God; and I myself am one of these.” (Inferno. 4.34-39). Basically saying although these people were good people and did not sin in the slightest they are doomed to eternal damnation only because they did not know or believe in god. This is actually kind of a commonplace thought process nowadays, especially in the United States. If someone who is of a Christian religion finds out that they are a member of a Pagan religion they are often met with verbal aggression of how they're going to Hell. Again being of a Pagan religion is in no way illegal in most modern day countries but many christians still view it as a