/lit/ - Literature

>>10886536
Start with the Pre-Socratics

>>10886544
stfu beta

>>10886544
>Dude everything is water!

>>10886551
>>10886554
back to /r9k/

>>10886536
The Bible is a pretty good intro to Christianity.

>>10886536
No, a good intro to Christianity would unironically be The Greeks: Plato, Aristotle, Proclus, Plotinus, then Augustine and The Bible. Christianity is synthesis of Old Testament prophecy and a brilliant series of lectures on agape, where the central figure of Christ is a mythologized, anthropomorphized messiah representing the highest good.

Paradise Lost is a good read only after you already have at least a passing familiarity with the NT and OT.

>>10886536
...no.

>>10886574
Not bad, yeah.

Do I need to read Dante to appreciate Paradise Lost?

I've read the Bible.

>>10886544
fpbp heraclitus and parmenides took speculative metaphysics to their endpoints right from the beginning and it has been downhill since

>>10886628
please tell me she has a dick

>>10886628
who is this trap

Christianity is a shit-tier religion, just like anything originated from the desert.

>>10886536
Definitely not.

>>10886621
No. But you should read him anyway.

>>10886640
>Roman Empire and Hellenic culture
>Desert

>>10886640
what is your ranking of religious beliefs, o ye connoisseur of true faiths?

>inb4 atheist

>>10886628

>>10886644
Taoism > Confucianism > Buddhism > Hinduism > the rest > shit > Abrahamic religions

>>10886666
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>>10886666
>satan quads
begone, weeaboo, and think deeply on how your infatuation with eastern mysticism is merely a reactionary position adopted as a result of your rejecting your native faith. I'll be praying for you anon.

>>10886536
Try the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chs. 5-7.

1 Corinthians has instructions about Christian life within community (i.e. church)

The Didache also has helpful instruction for Christian community and hospitality.

Milton was a heretical protestant, though we’ll keep him because we need a great poet on our side.

>>10886688
(ps ask me how I know you're a larping weeb and not a genuinely practicing asian? because no Confucian would have recognized Hinduism, and no Buddhist would recommend Taoism. Just stop with the yellow fever already it's embarrassing.)

>>10886686
this won't ever not be reddit
>egone, weeaboo, and think deeply on how your infatuation with eastern mysticism is merely a reactionary position adopted as a result of your rejecting your native faith
Christianity isn't native to Europe and Weebs would be into Shinto and Zen buddhism
>>10886666
Confucianism is trash, Buddhism is only worth Tibetan Buddhism and Zen, Hinduism is garbage outside of Vedanta and Tantra, Hermeticism and Platonism are extremely powerful if a bit deadened by time, Esoteric Gnosticism is good, everything else is evil. Daoism is however the greatest of all faiths

>>10886666
Must be right.

>>10886771
Daoism is the best one there, I’m glad you recognize this.

Daoism is BY FAR the most empowering of all eastern religions. It is NOT a pussy religion. And the reason? It believes in God. Who wudda think that the only monotheistic Eastern religion believes in a central God, who is one with nature. Its almost reminiscent of the Koran, how it talks about a king and God together like that.

Daoism is definitely compatible with Abrahamic religion, so the Christians and Muslims on /lit/ should like it.

>>10886554
Uhm, no sweetie, actually everything is fire

>>10886806
>And the reason? It believes in God
no, it does not at all.
>Who wudda think that the only monotheistic Eastern religion believes in a central God
No, because there are Hindu sects that believe in Monotheistic deities as are there ancient Chinese faiths that believe in it, the Dao is not a God you stupid fucking LARPfag
>who is one with nature
The Dao isn't nature, it comes before Heaven and Earth
>Its almost reminiscent of the Koran
No, just in your head faggot
>how it talks about a king and God together like that
it doesn't say anything like that, it says that Heaven and Earth are in order when the King is one with the Dao and when the people live with the Dao, it advocates for minimalist Monarchy, literally the Emperor is said to not bother the people and the people do what they have to naturally.
>Daoism is definitely compatible with Abrahamic religion, so the Christians and Muslims on /lit/ should like it.
I want to punch you in the eye