When People Stop Making Sense
Written by johnDante’s Inferno is a repentant journey which explores the various depts to the underworld of Hell and to make sense of and live with, just what he has done.
From the viewpoint of a Knights Templer's - a sworn warrior to defend Christendom, Dante through the guidance of the poet Virgil has to navigate and come to terms with the blurred moral compass of the universe and a god's governing rules between right and wrong. Descending the various depths he's to confront each type of sin previously committed on his cruisades..
The inferno pit is not merely a descent into Hell but a stark depiction of punishment and reminder that without justice there shall be no redemption. “Was it not God's will?” I hear him say - while representing a faith that was supposed to represent God himself.
A moral God need only ask this, if the faith you hold asked/told you to jump off the cliff ,would you? If you hesitate or refuse, could that faith represent a God. After all, an all powerful God would not need to ask anything immoral of you. He could just have the cliff disintegrate from under your feet. Thou shall not kill kind of means that - thou shall not kill, so what is it your man faith has command of you and in the name of what.
I was once told by a work colluegue, "a good soldier never goes back" and in that moment this to me was a profound logic. It entirely made sense with many possible scenarios while being a soldier and if you were a soldier I had thought you should hold strict as one of your principles on being a good soldier. Not saying there was not room for exceptions to the ruled principle. Perhaps there was a chance to save a fellow soldiers life. But what say this - if our sense of time is in the present, from this moment on is now in our past. So traveling in either direction into the future is still the principle of our past.
Our past in many ways define who we are in the present. Who are we right now if????