/lit/ - Literature

>>12903605
Your prophet is a liar and is in Hell. Repent and submit to the Pope.

>>12803436
>a real live Sede on 4chan

Begone into the darkness, servant of Satan. Francis is validly the pope, by the way.

>>12541187
Yet again proving that the United States and the Catholic Church are like oil and water. You cannot be a good American and be a good Catholic at the same time, the ethos of the two entities are irreconcilably at odds.

>it's an Ortholarp thread

>tfw you realize just how many heresies have their origin in people trying to make Jesus more complicated than he actually is

>>11745727
>pretend

>>11650758
What a huge fucking scam, why am I not surprised? Every time America tries to do its own take on religion it all turns into a grift and a con. America needs to be totally destroyed for the good of the rest of the world.

>>11478033
>claims that people should "get some convictions"
>bitches at people who might be interested in converting to Christianity

>>11285532
>people still don't realize that the ram in the thicket is Jesus

>>10931513
>posting this on Easter

Shame on you, OP. Christ is risen whether you like it or not.

I like to think of it as the Catholic Church being absolutely correct, but there being degrees of incorrectness. The Orthodox are incorrect, but they're the least incorrect of all the world's incorrect faiths. Certainly nothing like the Muslims or the Hindus. And they are perhaps incorrect enough that a great number of them will achieve Heaven, at least after some time in Purgatory.

Some of us have been on 4chan all this time as devout Christians, we just haven't felt as comfortable talking about our religion as we do in the present climate.

>>9863487
It's going to be some SHIT when enough Christians (and Buddhists and Hindus I guess) become anti-capitalist. Muslims are already there, what if other religions start joining in? There's already an anti-capitalist pope.

>>9783858
>Well Christianity is gone, and it's not coming back, nor should it.

Says you.

>>9609954
Oh so he's just a Hitchens-tier retard. Well, now I know not to take him seriously, thanks for enlightening me.

>>9465899
The Catholic Church is 2000 years old, Anon.

I am on the verge of praying to God himself to curse every single poster in this thread.

Holy Mother Mary, this thread has me worked up. I am on the verge of spitting fire.

INTO THE INQUISITION IT GOES

>someone calls himself Catholic
>doesn't regularly take the Eucharist
>probably doesn't even believe in the Real Presence

Just read "Laudato Si." I don't agree with Francis on everything, but Laudato Si actually does a good job of advancing a more traditional, conservative approach to environmentalism.

They're all Christians, though.

>>8427874
>mfw if the Church plays its cards right it could wind up with a whole new generation of converts

Francis probably wouldn't approve, but he's 79 and aging. The next Pope will have some interesting decisions to make.

Well, OP, it depends on the origin of the abstinence, of course.

Are men living without sex because they are faithful Christians, and Christ, though Saint Paul and others, pretty clearly forbids sex before marriage?

Or are they living without sex because they desperately want to have sex, but can't because they're pathetic sad fucks, so they just shut themselves in their rooms and masturbate?

The two are very different things, and deserve different responses.