/lit/ - Literature

>>7993111
No. A clerk tried to talk to me about Pynchon once when I bought a copy of Bleeding Edge. We had a nice chat about Lot 49 and V. until I asked if he'd read Mason and Dixon. When he said he had not, I scratched my head, looked mildly embarrassed on his behalf, and left with a roll of the eyes.

git gud

>>7408303
>And you still agree with your reactionary ninth grade judgment?
Basically, though I'm less angry about it now.

>reactionary
Reacting to what? The loving community that raised me? The beautiful sacred texts I knew inside and out? It hurt, a lot, and still does, but there's just not enough truth in that faith for me to maintain it in good conscience, and every time I try it I reach the same conclusion.

It doesn't inspire discussion in good faith, by the way, when the only way Christians can comprehend someone leaving the church is to say the apostate never believed in the first place, or that he's just mad at God and denies the truth he knows to spite him.