>Insults Zeus>Punished in Christian hell for blasphemy??What did Dante mean by this?
>>24143881Don't be arrogant, bellicose, or imprudent. While it's technically a pagan deity that he blasphemed directly, it still has the vicious quality that separated Capaneus from the Good.
never read it and not religious but maybe the idea is that his intention to spite the true god and had he known the christian god he would have insulted him, too.
>>24143881Dante was literally pagan. many of his "poems" are literal prayers to gods.
>>24144423Only when the tradcaths of /lit/ realize this will they begin to heal.
>>24143881The words God, Dios, Deus, etc... in European language all derive from pre-christian deities, and the concepts of heaven and hell derive from pre-christian religion as well.Europeans still worship their old gods and believe in their old metaphysics, just now they read a jewish book and venerate a bunch of dead jews as well.
