/lit/ - Literature

>>18601565
Just read the Bible, bro

>>15912386
St. Paul literally said that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with marriage. It's literally how the Church propagates itself from one generation to the next. Sex is a beautiful thing but the problem is people are too attached to the pleasure of it rather than the unitive and procreative aspects of it. God created man and woman so that together they can enter into the mystery of the inner life of the Trinity through marriage, which as a Sacrament is, a symbol of the Love of God and the Eucharist (in that like marriage, it binds one soul to God and through grace, produces faith and good works along with the Eucharist being the Real Presence of the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ) . That means we shouldn't disparage it and on the other hand, you don't go full coombrain like >>15912522,>>15908225, >>15908286 and >>15908330. If one cannot control their healthy sexual passion (so not homosexual passions which are intrinsically disordered or anything of the same type), they shouldn't indulge it or repress it. They should be thankful to God for the gift he/she has received and discern if dating and marriage is for them and see where God is calling them. If their passion is disordered, they should pray to God for self-control and perseverance in this matter because a bit of temporal pain is infinitely better than eternal death and punishment.

>>15900573
God wouldn't damn you if the person delivering the message is incompetent or otherwise unable to effectively spread the Gospel, but with the caveat that he/she was living a virtuous life beforehand or is a child or otherwise know the difference between right and wrong. God is just. If someone spreads the Gospel in a way that's incoherent, it's not the recipients fault for not heeding it but at the same time they must live in accordance with natural law.

>>14171040
is this more /pol/ shilling on /lit/? Most of the problems currently the West is dealing with can be traced to Christian apostasy. Europe and other once Christian nations were thriving when people lived by the word of God.

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

>>13873501
isn't calvinism just a really dumb theology in general?

>denies countless mentions of freewill in the bible
>says Christ died only for the elect when there are multiple scriptures that said he died for all men
>gospel literally means good news but lol you can't go to heaven because it's predtermined and you have no choice.

talked to a calvinist pastor recently and showed him Ephesians 2:8-9 and he flat out denies that salvation is a gift. dunno how people can fall for stupid ideas like these.

>>12965519
Peterson clearly refers to people living in the free and open west, you leftist moron.

>>10679774
>I see, so you think that rape is never just

>>10316191
>individuals speak for a group
Anti-Christians in action.

>>10075157

I'm praying for you young man.

>>9583893
>the Devil is a "symbolic" figure

>>9514343
>get on bus for my daily dose of drudgery
>it's full of other community college reprobates gaily faggoting about
>make my sullen retreat to the back
>notice a beautiful girl reading Finnegans Wake
>burst out a violent guffaw
>begin crying in apoplectic bliss as I feel my way along the railing to a seat
>survey my esteemed peers from my plastic throne, risking another glance at the girl
>smile slowly fades
>it smells like weed and piss

>>9517666
Of course you are. All brainlets are attracted to stoicism. They don't give a shit about concepts and ideas, they just wanna learn some cool life hacks from bearded dudes who wore togas in ancient greece and shit cuz that's a whole lot cooler than what the average person is doing.
Literally don't kid yourself. The only reason there's so much greek philo is because they couldn't get it right. In the AD you should only deal with plato and aristotle and have a general idea of the concepts that lead up tp them, who thought what and where they were wrong. Yes, we read the greeks to find out what they got wrong. Not what they got right. They were pegans, ofc they couldn't do anything right, just look at the athenian democracy. I mean for fucks sake you know your government sucks ass when the wikipedia article for it only has two headings under the 'History' section: Development, and Aftermath kek.

>>9444036

Humans are monogamous creatures butters. Being a womanizer/slut isn't normal, or it shouldn't be anyway.

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>>9429754
>not a single post actually refuting this
>hahah what an absurd and baseless claim too bad we can't actually substantiate way
impressive bandwagon faggotry as ever

>>9417374
Welcome to academia, where every single piece of work, regardless of its era, intent, context, or content, can be obfuscated into a piece on feminism, racial inequity, and whatever other abortive tripe your esteemed peers have been taught to regurgitate.

>>9061990
Stop.

>>9043148
I actually believe in ultimate truth and am trying to find it.

>>8949940

>feeling bad about reading in public

How do you survive air travel or waiting at the doctors? Do you just look at your phone? Very sad desu.

>>8924090
>all the points are the subjects of study of many other fields that have much more of an impact on a man than pure philosophy does
You probably think that linguistics is one such subject, it's not.
There's NO subject that deals AT ALL with the same subjects as metaphysics besides philosophy, much less more effectively. Because these fields of study are incapable of adjudicating those topics even in principle.
Hence mathematics can't deal with ontology because ontology precludes mathematics, mathematics itself being an application of ontology and thus existing solely within its boundaries, as abstraction from matter.

I've got a feeling many Catholics want to "convert" to SSPV but are unable to.

>>8767617
You obviously weren't around when /lit/ was "founded", It was way more traditionalist borderline neoreactionary than current /lit/.

>>8424740
>>>/co/

>>8414154
>I want to write a book where staying a virgin until 30 literally makes you a wizard

Ha, so basically The Catholic Catechism?