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'Divine Comedy is 'offensive and discriminatory,' says Italian NGO'


"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here: Dante's medieval classic the Divine Comedy has been condemned as racist, antisemitic and Islamophobic by a group calling for it to be removed from classrooms."

Read more: Alison Flood, Guardian

Comments:

I think we should ban Iliad because it encourages militarism and patriarchal possessiveness of women. I think we should ban Odyessy because it implies that women should be unassertive. I think we should ban Aenid because it glorifies Imperialism. I think we should ban Xenophon because it encourages militaristic triumphalism and racism. I think we should ban Arabian Nights because it implies that psychopathic tyrants should get the best chicks. I think we should ban the Icelandic Sagas because they glorify feuding, and personal vengeance. I think ...

Oh heck, just name a book and I bet I can find some reason to ban it.
It also encourages polarization. After all Dante put all the politicians he hated in hell.

I wonder how many modern people would want to be able to do that?
Apocalypse
Just the other day I watched Apocalypse: Judgment. In 1 1/2 hrs. I was reminded of how the devil likes to work his lies into a spittle of truth. Said often enough and loud enough, the fool from Proverbs begins to believe the lie, then feel the cancer of the lie alive in their body, and then begins to act on the lie, loosing all mental and spiritual contact with reality, as if being transported into hell without knowing it. Once in hell, the only way out is the key to salvation through Jesus Christ. If the fool does not answer the door when He knocks, the door to the fool's heart is locked in hell forever.