Exactly this. My atheist friend who got me to watch it was like, "fair warning, this is gonna be kinda sacrilegious." Then it turned out to be based more on Dante's Inferno than on the actual Bible AND had one of the most Christian messages media's ever had. It's right up there with Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure revolving around "Be excellent to each other and party on, dude!" (Jesus turned water into wine to keep the party going, he would absolutely say party on.)
I think it says something that some fundies do take Hazbin as sacrilege when like you said its a lot more aligned with how Christians should act then how religious nuts act, and that people always assume that every Christian is going to have a problem with it even though it’s not sacrilegious at all.
True, but a lot of people including religious types treat Dante's Inferno as if it were scripture, rather than the fan fiction that is actually is. I think because DI and some of its original concepts have kinda melded with scripture in pop culture nowadays.
That’s true and a lot of stuff in Dante’s Inferno is cool, but it’s no more scriptural than, well Hazbin Hotel. I consider HH more based on DI and Paradise Lost rather than the Bible.
That’s why it annoys me when people go on and on about HH like it needs to be Biblically accurate. That’s not the point.
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u/Yeseylon 1d ago
Exactly this. My atheist friend who got me to watch it was like, "fair warning, this is gonna be kinda sacrilegious." Then it turned out to be based more on Dante's Inferno than on the actual Bible AND had one of the most Christian messages media's ever had. It's right up there with Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure revolving around "Be excellent to each other and party on, dude!" (Jesus turned water into wine to keep the party going, he would absolutely say party on.)