My reaction to Dante's Inferno

While I was looking back through all the freewrites I had written about Dante's The Divine Comedy I realized how much I had really progressed in my understanding of the poem itself, and in doing so had really been given a whole new view on religion and spirituality. The freewrite that showed this growth to me the most was the second one we had written after reading Canto's III and IV. I had a rather …

…with them keeping themselves there. Or perhaps Limbo is just an exception to that rule. It's hard to say. But by realizing how simplistic I thought the "normal" Christian view was, I think I've gained a lot in understanding that the views of Christianity can be seen in a multitude of ways. It would certainly be unfair of me to continue to assume I know how anyone, Christian or not, views the afterlife and God.