/lit/ - Literature

>>17143070
Worship God and meditate lovingly upon His beautiful face for all eternity in the afterlife

>>16927834
Papal apologists bend over backwards trying to cherry-pick scripture verses to prove that Jesus gave Peter some special office

Meanwhile taking it totally for granted that Peter had anything to do with the beginning of the Catholic church, and never offering a shred of evidence about this.
>Peter? More like Constantine, a Roman emperor interested in gaining better religious control over his subjects

>>10327037
You need to read Dostoevsky more critically and not just mindlessly repeat what he says or what some scholar wrote in an introduction or footnote for the Grand Inquisitor scene.

Dostoevsky did not know anything that he was talking about with regard to Catholicism. The West would be nowhere without the Catholic Church; it did a far better job at preserving civilization than any Eastern institution. In fact, the Catholic Church is the only powerful Church institution of any influence today and many of the once mighty historical Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches are in terminal decline. In the coming years, Christendom is going to look more Catholic and Evangelical than anything else.

Dostoevsky did have some prescience with regard to the value of institutions and their preservation, especially the institution of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was spot-on in his judgement that the rise of the nihilists corresponded with the rise of the Enlightenment and the decline of the Church. However, this idea was already well-defined by Edmund Burke in his observations on the French Revolution. Dostoevsky, whether he was familiar with Burke or not, was essentially a Burkean conservative and knew what doom would come to Russia with the destruction of the institutions of monarchy and church.

Listen up, you pagan fucks. This is the official Catholic /lit/ general. This thread is for the discussion of Catholic literature of all genres, including scripture, novels, poetry, theology, and so on. SO DON'T TOUCH THIS, you atheist Mod why-work-when-you-can-do-it-for-free fucks!!

Great resource for Catholic literature from our resident lay theologian, the great Wolfshiem: https://pastebin.com/u/wolfshiem

Ave Christe Rex!