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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

Beatrice in Limbo — Inferno, Canto 2

· June 26, 2026
Beatrice in Limbo Inferno 2

Virgil’s account of why he came to the dark wood takes up most of this passage, organized around a chain of mercy working downward from Heaven: an unnamed noble lady was moved to grief, sent Lucy, who went to Beatrice, who crossed from her place beside Rachel in Heaven to find Virgil and ask him … Read more