PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

This couplet addresses the concern of my 'fundamentalist' friends, who dislike my admiration for the poetry of Dante (which does not contradict my Sacramental faith).  I doubt that Dante considered the Divina Commedia as a theological summary of final authority; it was, and is, and always shall be a Poem---allegoric?, of course; literal?---hardly.  To be ignorant of these distinctions is one of the high marks of spiritual ignorance, generally.  And an ignorant Christian is not an oxymoron (cf. Hebrews 5:11-14).