Good Example Of Critical Thinking On Respond
Type of paper: Critical Thinking
Topic: Church, Religion, Business, Criminal Justice, Money, Products, Food, Crime
Pages: 1
Words: 275
Published: 2021/03/02
On his journey through hell, Dante meets many poor souls, punished for their sins. As a hero of his poem, he feels regret for some of those souls, he is sympathetic to those who lost their ways, but being an author of his own journey, he, as a supreme judge, decides who gets punished in which way.
I find some of punishments unfair, but there is only one I really want to argue about. I think that Dante chose too hard punishment for some of those accused of gluttony. As we know, in addition to those who are eating excessively, this sin is ascribed to those who prefer tasty and expensive food. Nowadays in economically developed countries for some people it is in common to choose only best products and cook some tasty dishes, and one more reason to do so is that usually only expensive products are of good quality and are not hazardous to health. I do not think that souls of those people deserve such fate. Even if they still deserve punishment, it must be not so rude. I’d rather offer to punish them as souls from purgatory: letting them eat, but the food won’t help them and they’ll feel hungry forever, becoming more and more thin, until only bones and skin will be left of their bodies. But I don’t see much sense in tormenting those souls more than this.
In my opinion, the perfect way would be to divide clergymen selling church’s favor in two groups. First group is those who just collect donations for church from honorable men whose only purpose of donating is helping to keep the churches, and second one is those who take more than needed or taking from those who professedly want to redeem their sins in exchange for money. If God is really all-knowing, he knows who did it for church and faith, whose thoughts are not stained with self-profit, and who took too much in lust for money and really sold church’s favor just for personal benefit, but not in the name of God.
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