[Doc Faustus]

[QUOTE=ChronoGrl;653973]Oh, I definitely agree... The fact that Usurers and Sodomites (ahhh, yes, the "connection" between blasphemous Homosexuality and... Lending) are bound to the Seventh Level along with "The violent, the assasins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers," and, well, me and Posh and Austin, seems slightly... unbalanced.

But then again, we have to consider that the original text was written in 1308 and focuses purely on Christian Theology at the time...

What is more poignant is to consider what is considered blasphemous now... Of course, a lot of beliefs manifest from these writings (along with The Bible), and what is interpreted literally and what is not.]

Dante, however called into question a lot of the dogmas. For example, he has a lot of anger at the papacy and frequently ponders biblical justice. Look how he feels about Paolo and Francesca for example, and Brunetto Lattini...who is a homosexual. For the time, his understanding of religious hypocrisy and some of the inherent unfairness of things is absolutely sublime. Dante's talk about Ugolino, a man wronged by the state, is very forward thinking politically. For a man who served as a magistrate to stop and question dogmas and the papacy is amazing. More forward thinking than nowadays. What happens to a man driven to desperation by the state today?