/lit/ - Literature

>>20874373
based gnostic anti-globohomo freedom fighter

>>20870349
The real Jews are Aryan Hellenes, Jesus was GREEK

>>16928118
Sure, fine, and that church Peter started in Rome was probably all-but-wiped-out by Roman persecution. Up until the TRUE founder of Catholicism, Emperor Constantine, made Catholicism the official Roman religion, at which point Peter's church would have become invisible from sheer obscurity while everyone and their dog rushed to worship Mary to win points with Constantine.

>Where are the successors of St. Peter today?

We took for granted Peter's office, we did not take for granted that it was an office passed down by successors. You'll have to provide evidence for that one, Francis.

You still never addressed why we need a successor of Peter in the first place when Jesus Christ himself is "with you always, even to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:20)

>this kills the papist

>>15031490
Go through and explore those exclusive faiths, there is still value in them; but transcend the fear if you are able.

155:5.9.The acceptance of the traditional religions of authority presents the easy way out for man's urge to seek satisfaction for the longings of his spiritual nature. The settled, crystallized, and established religions of authority afford a ready refuge to which the distracted and distraught soul of man may flee when harassed by fear and tormented by uncertainty. Such a religion requires of its devotees, as the price to be paid for its satisfactions and assurances, only a passive and purely intellectual assent.

155:5.10.And for a long time there will live on earth those timid, fearful, and hesitant individuals who will prefer thus to secure their religious consolations, even though, in so casting their lot with the religions of authority, they compromise the sovereignty of personality, debase the dignity of self-respect, and utterly surrender the right to participate in that most thrilling and inspiring of all possible human experiences: the personal quest for truth, the exhilaration of facing the perils of intellectual discovery, the determination to explore the realities of personal religious experience, the supreme satisfaction of experiencing the personal triumph of the actual realization of the victory of spiritual faith over intellectual doubt as it is honestly won in the supreme adventure of all human existence—man seeking God, for himself and as himself, and finding him.

155:5.11.The religion of the spirit means effort, struggle, conflict, faith, determination, love, loyalty, and progress. The religion of the mind—the theology of authority—requires little or none of these exertions from its formal believers. Tradition is a safe refuge and an easy path for those fearful and halfhearted souls who instinctively shun the spirit struggles and mental uncertainties associated with those faith voyages of daring adventure out upon the high seas of unexplored truth in search for the farther shores of spiritual realities as they may be discovered by the progressive human mind and experienced by the evolving human soul.

>>14974566
ok

Lets start with Psalms!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9DjvQRooPQ

>>14242690
fpbp

>>12721829
My quality of life increased so much after finally submitting to Christ. It's almost mind-blowing desu. I spent years chasing Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche but none of them satisfied me. Finally rediscovered Christianity, read NT Wright, the Bible and the Church Fathers. They literally have all the answers and a beautiful phenomenology.

I'm going to pursue a life in the church. I hope to one day live in a monastery, spend all day studying/working, and smile before I go to sleep every night.

My banking career isn't all I hoped it would be.

>>12409900
Maybe you should open your mind to religion friend. It's much deeper than you might imagine.