/lit/ - Literature

>>12865831
Only 2pl8?

>>12577584
Anyone who finds Aquinas convincing has already made up their mind beforehand and is actively seeking an aesthetically robust framework for their beliefs with a similitude of logic. Ultimately ideas like "Evil is the absence of the Good" are pretty but are no more meaningful than "Jergenschlut is the absence of der Heigergieger".

Apologetics is single-minded not in creating a logically consistent view of God and theology but applying the pretense of rationality to a theology which is already decided as the primary object of the endeavor, not reconciling with rationality itself.

Somehow I find the Orthodox tendency to say "shut up! Stop asking questions that are not for the comprehension of man" more theologically sound and of course, honest. Suspending everything with mystery is perfectly fine in my book; you say you are taking something on faith alone, well then there ought to be no need to prove it. So I find the Orthodox position ultimately more dignified, since it is more consistent with the ideal of faith. Not to mention the intellect is the outcome of the fall of man and entirely at satan's disposal.

>>12494305
>all of /lit/'s opinions

When did he ever read Finnegans Wake -- before even reading Ulysses -- and then claim that not only is it a legitimate piece of literature but that its "not even that difficult" and "riddled with beauty"?