/lit/ - Literature

>>14653915
My misanthropy has nothing to do with the culinary tastes of those I serve, or my job in general, it has to do with the hedonistic mentality of America. People live to only gain pleasure out of life since they're devoid of meaning, resorting to frivolous activities without meaning and making a ritual of them to extract as much pleasure possible. The entertainment culture is the most disgusting aspect of my culture. Everyone worships athletes and celebrities, holding them up as national heroes because true heroism is lacking in modernist society. We had national mourning for a basketball player, but nobody gives a shit over a hundred people have died in China from the Coronavirus, or the thousands that die overseas in the Middle East. Americans have pseudo virtues, likely a result of their pseudo religious denominations of Protestantism. They don't give two shits about anyone but themselves. Family has no importance as half of our marriages end in divorce due to the normalization of promiscuity (the average American has 3-4 sex partners before marriage). But the most angering aspect is that ignorance reigns supreme. Instead of reading or working out, the American collective continues to consume and waste time, then bickering about why they have things rough. They dedicate nothing to the pursuit of knowledge or strength, only getting fat eating chips while watching The Big Game, an event that's become a national holiday. I went to church today in the evening and there was only less than 100 people in attendance, even though we typically accommodate a thousand. In lieu of honoring God they wanted to honor their glorified game of fetch, hooting and hollering at a television screen. I hope a very violent war occurs soon.

>>14471401
You're right that God is one, but wrong that the New Testament is almost worthless and an addition to a divine script. The New Testament corrects the Old Testament's slander of God. It is still just a text written, compiled, and translated by mortal men, though, and as such contains deliberate and accidental distortions and errors. Jesus was the Christ, the anointed one, a title analogous to Buddha. Jesus and Shakyamuni probably would have been great pals, what with them both being messengers of God sent to teach his will and the truth of salvation from the corrupted material (i.e. Abrahamic conception of Hell and separation from God, samsara and the age of dharma decline, etc.). To insult Christ, Shakyamuni, or Amitabha is to insult a teacher of God. God loves us all, even the worst sinners who are incorrigible in this material world. I agree that we should repent for our sins if we love God, though, as to do the Father good by drying His tears through good deeds is the highest and most important form of filial piety.
>>14471437
Christ was a mortal man born of a virgin by the will of God because God knew that Maria and Joseph would be loving and proper parents as per His will. Christ, by the guidance of (omniscient, omnibenevolent, but not omnipotent) God using all of His might to reach out from the perfect immaterial (i.e. the world of the forms), achieved the highest form of mortal enlightenment and taught the truth of God's everlasting love and forgiveness for all of His children in a manner suited to the Jewish culture (just as Shakyamuni did in a manner suited to the Hindu culture). Upon execution, Jesus ascended to the divine alongside God, the unmoved mover.

>>12076697
He Lived in a Society full of women and minorities

>If he hadn’t committed suicide so theatrically, nobody in the West would even remember him
This is literally proof that he was right about almost everything that he wrote

How right was he

>>11870112
based
>>11871065
based
>>11871131
based