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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yeah. Okay. Did you have any questions? Oh yeah. Yeah. That's a great question. Where, where do these ideas limbo and purgatory come from?..."
Limbo and purgatory are presented as Christian solutions to special-case problems in salvation, such as innocent babies or sins that do not seem to fit simple heaven/hell categories.
Jiang says Dante's genius is to access conflicts inside Christian cosmology and create his own cosmology from them.
"Yeah. Okay. Did you have any questions? Oh yeah. Yeah. That's a great question. Where, where do these ideas limbo and purgatory come from?..."
"Okay. Because there are lots of special cases where, okay, this person did some sin and so doesn't can't have access to heaven but..."
The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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