We just learned about the Medieval Inquisition.
Another part of early Christianity is the book the Divine Comedy.
This was written by a man named Dante Alighieri who was an Italian poet.
Long ago there were many ideas about what heaven and hell looked like.
The different mythologies from Romans and Greeks and other people mixed together and a lot of people took those ideas and mixed them in with what the Bible says about heaven and hell.
Dante wrote this book of poetry and talked about going into hell and heaven, and a lot of the places that he described going are a lot like the stories from mythology.
No one really knows what hell and heaven look like, but Dante's book was so popular that many people started to believe that what he wrote about was what they really looked like.
(from: wikipedia - divine comedy)
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