/lit/ - Literature

Let's talk about your personal religious views and your writing, /lit/.

For example, I am currently in the seminary and my training and education influences my writing heavily.

What about you, /lit/?

Why are there no good mainstream Christian authors or writers anymore? It seems like nowadays they pigeonhole themselves into a "Christian" market and are bought only in specialized bookstores.

Where's the modern day GK Chesterton?

I was led to believe that this guy is a good writer. However, apparently all he does is write about how much he loves sucking Jesus dick. Very disappointed

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Damn it Russel you know I'm British!

'He seems cool.'

>Anarchism adjures us to be bold creative artists, and care for no laws or limits. But it is impossible to be an artist and not care for laws and limits. Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If, in your bold creative way, you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe. The moment you step into the world of facts, you step into a world of limits. You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes. Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel. Do not go about as a demagogue, encouraging triangles to break out of the prison of their three sides. If a triangle breaks out of its three sides, its life comes to a lamentable end. Somebody wrote a work called "The Loves of the Triangles"; I never read it, but I am sure that if triangles ever were loved, they were loved for being triangular. This is certainly the case with all artistic creation, which is in some ways the most decisive example of pure will. The artist loves his limitations: they constitute the thing he is doing. The painter is glad that the canvas is flat. The sculptor is glad that the clay is colourless.

From Chesterton
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16769/16769-h/16769-h.htm

My all time favorite Catholic writer, no contest.