Dr. Junius Johnson

It ought to have come up in Inferno as well, but interestingly, it doesn't.

They're totally okay with some sinners being punished worse than others.

But when it comes to some people getting rewarded more than others, they're like, hold on, I thought God loved us all equally.

Hold on, I thought, I thought, I thought.

And I want to say, okay, fine.

Okay, cool.

Great.

Think about your life.

Think about how you've lived your life.

And let's say you were to die tomorrow.

Do you really think that you have merited the same level, that you should be placed on the same level as the minors?

Do you really think you should be placed on the same level as the Apostle Paul?

Right.

And say, well, I don't think they'd mind.

It's not about whether they would mind.

It's about what have you done to yourself?

And what did they do to themselves?

Because in Dante, it's all about how you're fashioning yourself.

If I were to allow this to be a Renaissance text, which I am not, I would say that it plays into that Renaissance fiction of self-making.

But precisely because in Dante, self-making is overturned for God-making.