Dante's Inferno

So, this Thursday we started working on Dante's Inferno, and the basics of how it works. We haven't started reading or anything, but we made up our own personal version of hell, which is in an earlier post. We had a four day weekend last week, and I have looked up Dante's Inferno a little to see what we are doing. I learned that the whole thing is a poem, and is written in vernacular language (common speech of the people of this time). I also found this picture and some like which are rather intriguing. 

I find it kind of confusing why "Treachery" and "Fraud" are at the bottom of everything, while killing people is only 3rd to last. I find murder rather terrible myself, quite worse that lying or stealing. I find it kind of scary being Atheist for one reason: if there is a hell, I sure am going straight there! I obviously don't believe in hell, I mean, if it only exists if I believe in it, then why believe in it? Why not only have a Heaven where I will go when I die? Then I don't have to always be depressed if I make a mistake, I can still be happy that Heaven is for me after-death. Luckily neither of those do exist in my mind, so I'm all good! Dante will probably have something on heaven or whatever, so I am excited to start reading.