Also in Dante's book, the Inferno, there are plenty of other examples of the veneration of women, such as when the story of his love for Beatrice is described. ... Another example of the elevation of love to a spiritual level is also in the Inferno, when Virgil is telling the story of how word comes down that Dante should be saved. He tells about when Beatrice, who is now a saint in heaven, says, "love called me here" (Dante 61). When she says this she is referring to why she is there to help save Dante. In this example it is showing how in life they had loved each other, and now Bea...

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If this were true it would mean that Christianity is the only religion that has any truth behind it since this concept of Hell in Christianity states that all other people who are not Christian are heretics in the eyes of their God; the concept of Hell in The Inferno is the same Hell in the Christian bible. ... "As soon as Dante's strength returns, the Poets begin to cross the FIRST CIRCLE. ... So in the era in which The Inferno was written, sin and Hell were the system, which governed over the mortals. ... So the cultural perspectives of sin are capable of change; its difference between ...

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If one believes in God, one must also assume that the afterlife in which he/she/they presides exists as well. Or, one might believe that science could somehow explain it. Either way, we simply do not have the knowledge of, or proof of an afterlife. Belief in an afterlife is based on blind faith and ...

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