Posted on 01/09/2008 8:03:01 AM PST by NYer
When I read Dante's Inferno, one thing that stood out to me in his "vision" of hell was the complete lack of remorse on the part of the damned: One sinner is even described, despite his torments, as staring in perpetual defiance against God. The only exception I remember to this overall theme of lacking remorse was in the Woods of Suicides. Anyway, it's been awhile since I read it (high school), and I might have just been reading my own interpretations into it.
It may just be me, but Fr. von Cochem’s book on the 4 last things and St. Alphonsus’ book really has the lost sinner bewailing his fate. They hate God, but don’t like hell either.
That contrasts w/ C.S. Lewis in his “Great Divorce” where the reprobate lives in the prison he has created. I dunno. I’m just concentrating on going to the nice place. (W/ the grace of Christ, of course).
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