/lit/ - Literature

>>8343665
But that's not true at all with some atheists and skeptics, I've found.

I mean, with some of you people, what's the point? I could show you pictures of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin or pictures of bloody hosts. I could link you to stories of healings and exorcisms. I could talk to you about people who have had their prayers answered in ways both overt and subtle. But so often all this is denied. It's claimed that the photos are faked. It's claimed that the testimonies are from liars or lunatics. It's claimed that the stories are made up.

Just recently there was an article in the Washington Post, of all places, from a board-certified psychiatrist; in it, he talked about how the Church hires him to help them determine the difference between mental illness and demonic possession. This is expert testimony from a literal expert, but everywhere I looked there were skeptics and atheists claiming he was nuts and refusing to believe.

So why should I bother, really? If people don't want to believe, they won't, and all the evidence in the world won't convince them.

>>7526645
You find God in the overwhelming reality of the otherworldly.

I bet you, like the vast majority of this board, comes from some sort of middle class suburban existence. This is a very spiritually deadening environment. Doubly so if you come from an art-free Protestant church, like most American Episcopal buildings are.

You need to open yourself to the overtly religious aspects of the world. Put another way, you need to open yourself up to the deeply spiritual aspects of religion. /x/ shit. Catholics and Orthodox experience the spooky side of religion every time they go to Mass, due to the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

You need to go sniffing around for the ways God still comes down into the world. He's not distant and he's not silent. He's here, all the time.