Inferno

It is amazing to me that since the beginning of time people will make their mind set on one religion and mock anything that is very slightly different. I feel that mocking religions is an empty argument. First off, the criticisms of one religion can often easily be applied to the religion of the criticizer. Secondly, why would anyone ever be so convinced that they know all of the answers. I don't understand. If you ask me, no one really knows yet everyone spends so much time and energy trying to prove to others that they are right, without any tangable evidence. People are so quick to question aspects of other religions that the refuse to question in their own. Wether Dante was showing hatred towards Muhammad, or just making some sort of deeper metaphor in his own search for the unity of the three major religions, I am rather disinterested. What about all of the other religions? No one person's religious beliefs are truly exactly the same as another's. There are as many beliefs as there are people, and animals, and things, so why focus on three very specific belief systems that no one really follows exactly anyway (which is impossible anyway because of interpretations). To me Dante's hatred towards Islam is very obvious in his text, and is very disturbing. There is no such reason for hatred. As the paper discusses it often comes from ignorance. Hatred is also often made up, and has no true justification to me.