Hi, I'm Mark Scarbrough and this is the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE. In most episodes of this podcast, we slow-walk passage by passage through Dante's masterwork, COMEDY. But this is an interpolated episode, brought about because of several conversations I've had online with people recently.

The question is this: How can I, an atheist, read Dante's COMEDY? I thought I'd answer that problem as well as I can.

Here are the segments of this episode of the podcast:

[01:24]             My backstory with Christianity.

[03:20]             Inferno is the easy part!

[05:01]             All art exists in a frame--and you cannot get rid of the frame without ruining the art.

[10:31]             I don't have to save Dante from Christianity.

[14:11]            The Comedy is not a mirror to see myself better.