231 - Dante's Inferno

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 154 minutes

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An exploration of Dante's depiction of Hell and how his vision still influences the way many still think of Hell today.

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0:00.0	Go to hell with me. Please. I'm going to hell today and I'd like you to join me.
0:05.1	Well, you won't stay long. Just taking a tour, taking a tour of Florentine Dante's version of Christian
0:09.8	hell as he wrote about it in his 1321 epic poem, The Divine Comedy. One of the most influential
0:16.4	literary works ever written in the rest Western world. Dante depicted hell as being made up
0:21.0	primarily of nine concentric circles of torment located within the earth or various types of sinners
0:27.0	face a variety of horrifying punishments from sitting in lakes full of shit slush to being bitten by
0:32.6	magical snakes to being literally chewed up in Satan's mouth for eternity. The punishments
0:37.2	Dante came up with were not enough not imaginative. Dante's depictions of hell were highly
0:42.8	influential to Christian theology, which has influenced Western culture significantly. When you
0:48.1	picture hell, if you picture hell, you likely picture imagery influenced by Dante. Never wonder
0:53.7	where many of the dirt bags whose lives we've explored in other time suck episodes go when they die.
0:58.8	Dante had some thoughts. There were specific circles reserved for the likes of the Milwaukee cannibal
1:03.6	Jeffrey Dahmer, Killer Clown, John Wayne Gacy, The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez, The Coed,
1:08.3	Killer, Ed Kemper, and other serial killers. Ever wondered if they're getting punished somewhere by
1:12.8	demon or some other kind of monster? I do. Dante clearly wondered about that type of thing as well.
1:18.4	He placed a lot of people he either knew or knew of and didn't care for into hell.
1:22.7	He seemed to clearly be pleased with his vengeful thoughts of their eternal suffering.
1:27.1	Totally get it. I've entertained thoughts of vengeance for as long as I can remember having
1:31.5	thoughts. They're pretty fun fantasies. I gotta say, in Dante's hell, the centers of each circle
1:36.0	are punished for eternity in a fashion fitting their crimes. The first circle is for baptized,
1:41.2	or I'm sorry, unbaptized, virtuous pagans, the second for the lustful, the third for
1:46.1	glutton's, and so on. All this came out of Dante's mind, a very religious and pretty twisted mind.
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