/lit/ - Literature

No.

start with the greeks

>>11566162
Yes.

Not only that, if you want to get anything out of Paradiso you need to understand quite a bit of medieval theology.

>>11566162
What's wrong Satan? Scared of a few holy words?

>>11566168
>>11566257
only pseuds read the bible, you can't be an intellectual and sit through the tens of hundreds of pages of that crap

>>11566162
No Anon, only read Virgil and some history books on the Middle Ages. Also get an edition with good annotations

>>11566268
Oh, also Aristotle and some Plato

>>11566257
Jesus did not have blue eyes. He had brown nigger gorilla eyes.

>>11566264
>being this much of a brainlet

>>11566285
Hitler had brown eyes.

>>11566291
state your case then,
not the guy, but I'm interested in your argument for it.

>>11566332
I am the guy an I was baiting, if you unironically don't know you most likely lack entire decades of development

>>11566309
Yes and Jesus was a nigger

May I ask your age OP? Even if you are a Fedra tipping athiest, how you expect to understand ANY Western art or Literature without an understanding of the Bible and Catholic tradition and the saints, I don't know. But good luck.

You have to be at least 18 to post here.

>>11566332
stupid

>>11566357
Shit bait

>>11566257
>yeah, I’m a Christian, you got a problem with that? I used to be a sinner like you but 2 years ago I found GOD. In my teens I would laugh at creationists; I would always tell my grandma that I didn’t want to go to mass; I was agnostic but not like r/Atheism. But when I GREW UP and became a man, I realised I needed to put childish things away (1 Corinthians 13:11). Why is that? Because I realized that we need Christianity to SAVE THE WEST. After I voted Trump in the 2016 election I decided to go to church again. I knew that I would find a QT pure Christian GF who I could lose my virginity to (I haven’t lost it yet because I’m saving myself for marriage, like God intended). I haven’t found her yet, but like Job I will pray and have faith in God. Then I saw Jordan Peterson talking about Christianity and I was hooked! (I don’t like him anymore though, he’s a fake Christian). I watched all his videos on the bible and realised how God reveals himself in many ways. I was on /pol/ (came from r/The_Donald during the election but I hate redditors now) Christian General and I saw /lit/ chart which had The Bible and I KNEW I found my people. Every day I see THE WEST falling because we gave up our FAITH. Well, the new Christian intellectuals are coming; We are the sons of the Crusaders and we shall not recoil before the sons of Voltaire! (Candide was shit, so is Nietzsche (haven’t read either of them)). /lit/ introduced me to Kierkegaard and I became a KNIGHT OF FAITH, so now I know that I just gotta believe and that’s TRUE bravery. I read DANTE and DOSTOEVSKY and I saw the beauty of God and true art. I’m a proud Catholic (Protestants are heretics) but I hate Pope Francis, he’s a heretic and isn’t MY Pope. /lit/ is a Christian board, and I know that if I just keep recommending the Bible, telling people to go to church, and making threads about how great God is, I will finally be able to sincerely believe in God and distract myself from the gnawing feeling that I’m a fraud. Faith ain’t easy.

Boccaccio>Dante. Skip the Divine Comedy for the Decameron and learn to never ever trust women again.

>>11566332
The argument is that it is rightly the basis for three major religions, most of the development of western civilization, and a chronicle of God’s word

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>>11566569
This copypasta was posted mere moments ago for the first time and it's already tiring

>>11567031
To be fair its only appeared in the stupid off topic religion threads.

>>11566162
*tips*

Why would you read the Divine Comedy if you're so vehemently opposed to religion ?

I mean if you want to know anything about literature in a serious context you should read it anyway.

>there are people on /lit/ who haven't read the Bible in its entirety

>>11566162
You are a fedora and can't read Italian. Why even read the Divine Comedy then? faggot

>>11566309
Hitler had blue eyes, stop spreading disinformation

>>11566162
Play the game Dante's Inferno and then proceed to the book.

>>11566553
Do you think Jesus wasn't a nigger? What race was he? I thought it was established that he was black, and the popular image of him as white is retarded. If I'm wrong I promise I'm not trolling. I can't just google it because of course then it's gonna say he was black, and throw in what a racist I am to boot.

>>11566162
Not necessarily if you're familiar with the stories in it or have a good footnoted edition, but if you see reading the bible as "poisoning" you, you're not going to enjoy Dante very much.

>>11566162
If you consider the Bible poison what would be the purpose of DC?

>>11566264
If you can sit though Nietzche's fan fiction, you can sit through the Bible and learn something. Might take longer, but it's worth a lot more.
>>11566285
Whatever you say, Muhammad.
>>11566569
You do realize that if this bait was real, society would actually start improving with all the virgin incel types actually trying to reform through Christ?

Just read Inferno and familiarize yourself with Dante.