/lit/ - Literature

I recently joined a "writing" pisscord server full of normies. Two of the admins have furry pfps. I want to just leave, but at the same time I kind of crave their approval. I've posted excerpts from my novels and poems (I won a national poetry competition and was tradpubbed), and I don't think it's too self-aggrandizing to say that it's better than 99% of what's in there. It's mostly sad women writing drivel and 16 year olds writing what they think is poetry. I was recently criticized for using the word "dynamic" because it's too "writerly" and "reaching." what do?

>all the books mentioned here are already on my list
this is the end of lit. i have seen all the recs

What is the best argument for religion out there?

How do I get into theology?

I recently had a crisis where me, a Catholic young man, almost became swapped denominations and/or became Lutheran. Without a proper reason to convert, I am simply waiting for god to give me a sign. In the meantime, I want to study different religions like my grandfather did.

TL,DR: I almost became Lutheran and I need to get into theology.

>>17839220
>tfw literally Alyosha

"more sex" is meaningless if it's outside the confines of marrige.

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>>16160288
Thank you so much anons

Father Suarez died with so much peace, that in his last moments he said: ”I could not have imagined that death was so sweet.” Being advised by his physician not to fix his thoughts so constantly on death, Cardinal Baronius said: Is it lest the fear of death should shorten my life? I fear not; on the contrary, I love and desire death. Of the Cardinal Bishop of Rochester, Saunders relates, that, in preparing to die for the faith, he put on his best clothes, saying that ho was going to a nuptial feast. When he came within view of the place of execution, he threw away his staff, and said: O my feet, walk fast; for we are not far from Paradise. ”Ite pedes, parum a paradiso distamus.” Before death, he wished to recite the TE DEUM, in thanksgiving to God for permitting him to die for the holy faith; and, full of joy, he laid his head on the block. St. Francis of Assisium began to sing at the hour of death. Brother Elias said to him: Father, at the hour of death, we ought rather to weep than to sing. But, replied the saint, I cannot abstain from singing at the thought of soon going to enjoy God. A nun of the order of St. Teresa, in her last moments, said to her sisters in religion, who were in tears: O God! why do you weep? I am going to possess my Jesus; if you love me, weep not, but rejoice with me. (Dis. Parol. i. 6.)

Father Granada relates, that a certain sportsman found in a wood a solitary singing in his last agony. How, said the sportsman, can you sing in such a state? The hermit replied: Brother, between me and God there is nothing but the wall of this body. I now see that since my flesh is falling in pieces, the prison shall be destroyed, and I shall soon go to see God. It is for this reason I rejoice and sing. Through the desire of seeing God, St. Ignatius, martyr, said, that if the wild beasts should spare him, he would provoke them to devour him. “Ego vim faciam, ut devorer.” St. Catherine of Genoa was astonished that some persons regarded death as a misfortune, and said: ”O beloved death, in what a mistaken light do men view you! Why do you not come to me? I call on you day and night”

>>14968684
You need Jesus to provide scientific proof because SCIENCE is your god. Why would he satisfy the requirements of idolators?

>mother has been diagnosed with coronavirus

Books on selfless atheist atonement?

Personally I don't think so, since the concept of "intellectual property" does not exist in the Bible/did not exist during biblical times, only the concept of physical property did.