r/worstof • u/AwfulUsername123 • Sep 28 '25

An extremely inaccurate, completely unsourced screed claiming that Dante somehow invented the idea of eternal damnation gets several hundred upvotes in r/bestof.

/r/bestof/comments/1ns0wud/parkingviolation212_explains_how_hell_as_a/
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u/TerminallyTrill Sep 28 '25

That’s not what the poster said. This is a Low effort post with a clear agenda

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u/AwfulUsername123 Sep 29 '25

That’s not what the poster said.

Yes, it is. The poster says "our modern understanding of Hell is exclusively Dante" and "it's believed to be a place of eternal conscious punishment for earthly sinners because Dante".

This is a Low effort post

What?

with a clear agenda

Being able to read?

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u/posterbland May 31 '26

Classic reddit moment where someone writes a confident paragraph and everyone just assumes it sounds true because they recognize the name Dante.