/lit/ - Literature

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>>10029098
This is exactly what is wrong with the Church in my opinion. That traditions instituted by political compromise and appeasement in a pan-European sect and then carried foward by anti-intellectual inertia were given any weight at all is a mistake. The political machinery involved in who gets to be a saint or bishop, which doctrines should become the official policy of the Church, and what heresies are forgiven or even adopted for profit (magical medallions ahem i mean sacraments, indulgences, etc). These are the works of base politicians, not philisophers of a divine office.

Don't get me wrong, I see great value in Christian philosophy and understand the march of aesthetics - every generation has its own unique interpretation of past works and even the ultraconservative Catholic church is not immune. The point made earlier about Mary being without original sin is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. It's not in the text, or even implied. It is a conclusion made by theologians who lived in a particular time and political climate, and only understood Christian doctrine through that lens. The same brought us Lutheranism and the C of E.

The goatfuckers at Fatima and the half-mad Catherine Laboure may represent Tradition, and these testimonies are temporally useful to the Chuch, but they should not be given the same audience as Augustine or Aquinas. Tbhwyfamilia these superstitions should be excised from the Church so that it may ennoble man again.

>>10018533
>The glorious one
I have never seen a more pathetic phrase in my life

>>9981334
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I'm sorry son, this is the literature board

christ, it's fucking atrocious