divine justice

Is God Judgemental?

· June 28, 2026

We’ve been taught to ask whether God is loving. The ruder question — the one Dante actually stages, in granular architectural detail, for every reader who has ever cracked open the Inferno — is whether a God who designed Hell could possibly be. Not Hell as vague backdrop to a morality tale, but Hell as … Read more

The Gate of Hell — Inferno, Canto 3

· June 27, 2026
The Gate of Hell Inferno 3

The gate speaks first. Nine lines of self-description in the first person — built by Power, Wisdom, and Primal Love — end with the instruction to abandon all hope. Dante reads them and tells Virgil they are hard. Virgil’s reply is the opposite of hard: here you must leave all hesitation behind. That the entrance … Read more