Dante's Inferno Canto Three Thoughts

The third canto in the Inferno so far has been extreamly interesting. Right off the bat we are given a poetic inscription on the gateway into hell that contains a extreamly famous quote at the end; "I AM THE WAY INTO THE CITY OF WOE. I AM THE WAY TO A FORSAKEN PEOPLE. I AM THE WAY INTO ETERNAL SORROW. SACRED JUSTICE MOVED MY ARCHITECT. I WAS RAISED HERE BY DIVINE OMNIPOTENCE, PRIMORDIAL LOVE AND ULTIMATE INTYELLECT. ONLY THOSE ELEMENTS TIME CANNOT WEAR WERE MADE BEFORE ME, AND BEYOND TIME I STAND. ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE." (Dante's Inferno, Canto 3 lines 1-9) I found this inscription to be a bit over the top but I suppose that it is appropriate given its placement. (above the gate of hell)

We then move on to the men and women who resused to take sides. The punishment for these people is to eteranlly chase a bannar and be pursued by a swarm of hornets while continjuiously being stung and feasted on by maggots. To me this seems a little extream. While many people in this day and age think that to do nothing is almost as bad as doing a deed, I am of a different view. I personally believe that choosing not to become involed is

Hell Defined

Well here are the views of a few mainstream religions around the world.

Islam: The Quran has over 200 verses mentioning hell. Those who do not believe in what Allah has revealed will be sent to their doom.Islam: not only will the nonbeliever be sent to hell but his family as well.
Islam: Similar to Christian hell; those sent to Islamic hell will be burned in the fires. Their souls becoming the fuel that keep them are burning.
Islam: some of the torments include: force drinking of festering water, branding, and submerging in boiling water.

Buddhism: When someone dies they enter the first of three Bardo states, which is an after-death plane. (Craig)
Buddhism: The second Bardo state, known as Chonyid Bardo, is where someone may experience a personal hell. (Craig)
Buddhism: Evil karma decides whether or not someone experiences this. (Craig)
Buddhism: The person thinks they have a physical body and that demons are eating them alive. However, these are just thought forms. (Craig)

Judaism: Evildoers await their judgment from God and their punishment, but a specific Hell is not elaborated on (Craig)

Christianity: Gehenna or Tartarus are the names of hell for condemned spirits and is a place of wickedness. (Evan)
Christianity: Differs from the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades as a place of eternal punishment, not merely a underworld for the deceased souls. (Evan)
Christianity: People who refuse to repent are stuck in hell even, even after the millennium. (according to Latter-Day revelations they would have been given to chance to repent). (Evan)
Christianity: Many people commonly perceive hell as having a lake of fire that consumes of utterly destroys those who are sentenced their. (Evan)

Bibliography
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/Quran/topics/hell.html
http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2006/10/for-disbelievers-painful-doom.htmlhttp://www.litesofheaven.com/buddhist.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_in_Christian_beliefs
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/gs/h/26
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.htm

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My Hell, ENVISIONED

I really have three different opinions of hell. The first is a vast grey plane. It stretches on indefinitely and is bleak in any sane persons perspective. It has no distinguishing features and the sky is just a mass or ominous grey clouds. My second hell is a burning storm of heat. Where the first hell does not have a temperature, the second hell is hot on the point of scalding your skin. It has a broken and twisted landscape with red lightning striking in random intervals and igniting patches of sulfurous land. My third and final hell is a square room with rows of desks, and people constantly hounding me for things that I have no idea about. I suppose that each of these hells symbolizes things that I hate, but I'm not really feeling the explaining vibe.

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