Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Circle VI The Heretics

The sinners that are in this level are those who did violence to God by denying immortality. They believed that the soul dies with the body so therefore their punishment was an eternal grave. We think that the reason this punishment was chosen is the sinners believed there was no life after death.They are doomed to spend their eternity in Circle VI in a grave until judgement day when the graves and their souls will be sealed forever. The sins in this level were called Malice. They were fraud, violence, murder, mayhem, harassment, plunder, arson, extortion, homicides, and destroyers.

There are many Christian influences in the Inferno the first being the denial of God which in the Christian belief is the greatest sin - eternal damnation. Christians also bury their dead in graves. Christians also believe in messengers of God. Christians believe that when they go to heaven they will receive a glorified body but in hell you will stay in your earthly body.

Although there are many Christian influences, there are also many pagan influences. The first being Erichtho who casts dark spells. Also the sinners in the grave are able to see into the future and into the past, but they do not have an awareness of the present.

The famous people that Dante meets is Farinata degeli Uberti, a great war chief that Dante admired although he was Dante's political enemy. Cavalcante dei Cavalcanti, son of Guido Cavalcanti a contempory poet and friend of Dante. Cardinal of the Ubaldini of Dantes time said to be involved in money and politics.

One person Dante would put in this part of hell would be Madelyn Murray O'Hair. She was the driving force behind the Supreme Court taking prayer out of schools. She was an atheist. The Columbine school shooters, Charles Manson, BTK Killer, John Allen Mohammed(Washington sniper) Jon Benet Ramsey's killer.

Stacy Therrell, Erica Gillie, Cheryl Jordan

7 comments:

Robin Burkhalter said...

Yikes. These were some pretty bad folks. It does seem that those who don't believe in an afterlife have little consideration for life itself.

Erica said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Erica said...

I agree with you Robin. These were murders, thiefs, and just horrible people in this level. I believe they deserve the punishment Danta gave them.

Tracy Field said...

I believe this punishment was suited for these sinners as well. They did not belive in an afterlife so they spent eternity in a grave. These were terrible people anyhow, so the worst type of punishment would only seem right.

stacy said...

Robin, I agree with you. I feel like these people were pretty bad too, but then again there aren't many good people that are in hell!

stacy said...

Tracy, I agree with you also. It only seems right that they stay in a grave forever since they did not believe in an afterlife.

cheryl j said...

To Robin: Yes they were some bad folks they lived for nothing in life so they have no place in the afterlife.