This text has really been quite an eye opener in light of the way I view the reality of sin. It it so easy to take sin and mask it by using less intense more socially accepted words, but Dante really puts it back into perspective. It has made me reconsider the little sins that I don't focus on. Not to mention the times that I convince myself that a sin is okay. Dante has pity on these people because he knows they were just following their hearts. The lover states that it brings her great pain to think on those past pleasures. There have been countless love songs written about preferring hell to being separated from the one you love and on many levels I think that is what current culture is selling. Yet this lover was distraught to think on her love which seemed so pure at the time. Yes she is with her lover forever but she is exasperated from God. The journalist made the point that you can love something pure but love it in the wrong way. In doing so it causes it to become sinful. I only wish their would be more love songs written about the dangers of loving something the wrong way.
P.S. I commented on Brannen's blog.
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