I was listening to a podcast very recently and a topic that came up was how Dante’s Divine Comedy left a lasting impact on the church as a whole in terms of their narratives, how they operate, and even the use of words like “Hell.” Unfortunately, my memory is pretty unreliable and I can’t remember a lot of the specifics of that discussion and I don’t what podcast that was (it was one of the bazillion podcasts my dad likes to listen to while making breakfast.) But yeah, I was really interested in this topic and when I went to look it up, all I got were articles from Christian websites (and as someone who grew up in a Christian home, I know for a fact that that they’re not objective about things like history, especially when it opens the possibility of “plot-holes,”) and then I also got some ads from like, three cults, so... I figured I’d ask people who might be a little less biased about the facts and how Dante’s politically-charged, self-insert power-fantasy led to the reformation of one of the world’s largest religions. Thanks in advance.