/lit/ - Literature

>>16476792
Read Confessions

I will pray for you anon, at least we are all worshipping the one God and not idols or ourselves. Deo volente we may all come to the truth someday

Countless people, in the Christian tradition and other religious traditions, claim to find spiritual fulfillment and happiness through charity and asceticism. Are they lying?

>>13893035
Woah! Looks like you need to cool off, there, bucko!

>>13808282
>The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but — what is worse — the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

>>12732205
Confessions is a wonderful book and does have some interesting theology, but it's more of a spiritual classic. You won't find arguments for the existence of the soul or an afterlife there. I suppose Kierkegaard would be a good person to read if you're struggling with the idea of believing based on faith

>>12724330
Repent. Sage. Fuck off.

>tfw been avoiding Augustine and Latin philosophical theologians all the way up to Uni because /lit/ meme
>tfw i get into argument with professor over late tier Augustine
>bring up the usual arguments "sexually-repressed, proto-Calvinist repackaged Manichaeism"
>pulls out De trinitate and another late tier Augustine tract
>proceeds to show me Latin equivalent to my favorite theologian (Clement of Alexandria; he knows this)
>mfw I fell for a lit meme and got btfo'ed in front of everyone sounding like an ignorant basedboy

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>>11991311
Lord grant me chastity and continence, but not yet. Lord grant me chastity and continence, but not yet. Lord grant me chastity and continence, but not yet. Lord grant me chastity and continence, but not yet. Lord grant me chastity and continence, but not yet. Lord grant me chastity and continence, but not yet. Lord grant me chastity and continence, but not yet. Lord grant me chastity and continence, but not yet. Lord grant me chastity and continence, but not yet.

>>11843552
But anon, Western culture is inseparable from Christianity. You cannot understand philosophy without understanding Augustine and Aquinas, and you cannot understand literature without an intense familiarity with the Bible.

>>11793390
Repent.

>>11786586
How?

>>11746566
Based abrahamic bro

>>11745316
I think you mean G-d, brother

>>11323589
>he unironically thinks man's postlapsarian will can find truth unaided
Please Lord, help him to stop being a faggot and blot out his hubris, and my own

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>>11320834
Platonism is just over-strong Augustianian Christianity

>>11042595
BASED

>>11041377
It's foolish to choose a religion based on your perception of its values as "cucked" or "masculine." Read some good intro tier Christian literature, like blessed Augustine's Confessions or the works of Saint Seraphim of Platina, and then read some of the works of the Mohammedans. Judge only after you have read, and judge in the spirit, remembering always that you will know the truth by its fruit.

>>10948625
St. Augustine, who by your writings in the Spirit won many souls for Christ, pray for OP and for us all.