/lit/ - Literature

>>13652300
>mindless speculation
not all knowledge is empirical, the majority of math is understood non-empirically, speculatively, it's proofs are grasped intuitively and abstractly, and if empirical data contradicts it (you find a triangle whose interior angles add to 185degrees, then the data is wrong because it contradicts our intuitions and logic).
Similarly matters about morality, freedom, purpose and how we ought to live are not entirely empirical but depend on presuppositions and values we hold.

We believe revelation is also a source of knowledge, hence things like prophecies, Christ predicted the destruction of the temple and expulsion of the jews from Israel. etc

>>10235239
>little pictures
thanks, they're called icons, and they're not "art" contrary to popular misconception. They are windows into the divine realm, they help one remember God.

>>10214603
>An atheist wouldn't tell them that they are sodomites and sinners who will burn in hell unless they go celibate and join their religion.
Can it be any comfort to them to be told that God loves them so that He will burn them clean? . . . They do not want to be cleaned in this life, and they cannot bear to feel the weight of their vices in the next life. But our God is a consuming fire, only the pure and good will pass into eternity. All vice and vanity will be destroyed, and is being destroyed.