... 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. Christian Doctrine seems like a quite contradictory way of explaining why a soul goes to Hell. This contradiction is because God most likely, is ... countries law has taken over as a sort of Hell where you are punished in certain manners according to the severity of your crime. So in the era in which The Inferno was written, sin and Hell were the system, which governed over the mor...

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... marked the beginning of intellectual re-birth. Writers such as Dante, Machiavelli, Guiarccidini, Vitoria, etc., all attempting to reform and some even contest church dominance. Dante in his imaginative work "Inferno" writes of hell which he envision is the pope's final destination. Machiavelli takes a more direct role classifying the actions of a prince to be above morality and ultimately above the Church ... ...

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