/lit/ - Literature

>>4435080
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really?
You do realize that this isn't actually "...hav[ing] a good laugh about the content of the bible" but rather 'having a good laugh about what some guy made up/misinterpreted about the bible', right?

>>4434295
Same reason they are still obsessed with Marx - they have their worldview based upon Freud and Marx being correct and cannot/will not change

>>4435053
No, he is mistranslating and twisting words to paint a false portrait of the nature of the bible

>>4435047
...a guy that knew the attackers were so depraved they wouldn't take the offer? A guy that understood the laws of hospitality demand that he make the offer? A righteous man who would uphold the laws of God despite the personal cost?

>>4433638
>most of those names have nothing to do with a messianic cult
*where* were you educated, again?

>>4433580
This was a test of hospitality; the rules of hospitality (charity and kindness to strangers and aliens) was, and still is, a big deal to Jews and Arabs and is codified in the laws of the Torah and the Quran. Lot's willingness to take in strangers and, once he extended hospitality to them, defend them even at the cost of his own daughters is to show that he is a righteous, law-abiding man while the rest of Sodom, who are desperte to violate the laws of hospitality, are so wiked even virgins can't distract them, are clearly beyond hope.

>>4433518
Meh. More semi-informed ranting with funny pictures.
Yawn

>>4434926
How freudian

>>4434274
Agreed

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>>4434529
IMO Hemingway was experimenting with a style of spare prose, got famous, and got stuck in that style because he got famous.
YMMV

>>4361588
Confession, prayer at home, regular attendance at Mass, and time with other Catholics who are 'further along'. Consider a devotion to the Sacred Heart and a daily decade of the rosary, too. In a year or so if you still feel that you have more growth ahead of you an investiture in the brown scapular is good, too

>>4361549
Hmmm. Maybe it is because of the experiences i have had as someone who does not do this coloring my perceptions

>>4361538
I am not here to save you, I am here to talk
And the statement 'there is no God' in this context deserves mockery.
Did you write
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>>4361531
perhaps 'general culture' - the concept that we maintain the illusion of Santa Claus as a jolly (and largely secular) man who lives at the North Pole, etc. Now, I am OK with fakelore and don't mind *too* much that it is a commercialization of Catholic fests all jumbled around and distorted, but find the idea of 'we will actively fool the kids until they figure it out on their own' a terrible concept.

>>4361521
"The proper response to man who says 'there is no God' is laughter"

>>4361516
I mainly use a trip code because I got tired of the 'I said this/no, I did/no, that isn't OP/yes it is' BS
I spend plenty of time teaching theology and leading workshops for Catholic teens - but where is the faith needed more than where it is not, yet?

>>4361506
Just my opinion, but this is a terrible idea.
My kids always knew that the Santa Claus of TV, etc., is based upon St. Nicholas and that St. Nicholas has been dead of 1,500+ years.
I despise how pop culture wants us to actively lie to our kids

>>4361503
Rome
and, of course, there were a few scholars here and there since

>>4361500
Should I only speak to other devout Catholics?
No, I shouldn't - I should reach out and speak to anyone.
Besides, I tend to stick to /lit/, /pol/, /adv/, and /g/ - not exactly the Vatican's website, but not /b/, either

>>4361484
A great leader of the Church and not nearly as Liberal as the press wishes he were

>>4361478
My oldest two are reading Augustus and Cicero in the original language - how is learning a foreign language a bad idea, again?

>>4361481
Latin is a 'universal language' that can be used by anyone in the Church

>>4361469
they already know them
in Latin

>>4361447
we are all very sorry your mother didn't hug you enough.
No go read some Waugh and calm down

>>4361333
excellent suggestion, anon
>>4359421
The Lensman Series by Doc Smith is a fun, light read
the first few books in the Lord of the Isles series are similar