/lit/ - Literature

>>11892178
yes, they lack nuance, not to say /lit/'s any better

/a/ are desperate virgins that ask for mana from heaven ? fuck off demiurge.

>>11892178
They aren't indoctrinated plebs still coasting off thousand years old scripture for some modicum of stability in their frivolous lives? The Christian LARPers on /lit/ are some of the worst people on this board.

>>11892485
But I'm Christian unironically. The whole reason I'm /lit/ is because I've been reading the Bible religiously since a young age, and branched out into other books.

>>11892526
That's fine, as long as you aren't one of the anons copypasting scripture in non-Christian threads every chance you get, and shitposting over Book of Revelation tier nonsense about modern technology and cultural attitudes surrounding it being the harbinger of our downfall.

>>11892178
Yeah, /lit/ makes up excuses for god's unethical actions rather than ignoring they happen

>>11892545
I just Kierkegaardpost

>>11892485
The Catholic LARPers are generally actually pretty well-read for /lit/ standards.
Stirner-, Nietzsche-, Landfags and so on are a much bigger cancer.

>>11892178
He's not wrong.

>>11892687
I think it's safe to say that anyone who hardly reads is cancer for a literature board. However, being well read means little if you lack respect for the Other and his views.

>>11892687
Thanks for the projection

>>11892687
Is that a joke? If you actually engage with them it's clear they just skim Wikipedia articles on some famous church fathers.

>>11892555
Based

>>11892178
Obligatory book for everyone here.

>>11892716
He is wrong about the Egyptian part, the rest is bang on.

Sounds about the same to me.

>>11893480
It is really Sumerian as far as we know, right? Or does it go further back?

>>11892887
That's gonna be a yikes from me

>>11892178
Hi guys. I've already read the whole Bible in my native language (Spanish) and I'm currently reading the English King James version because I felt like re-reading the Bible and wanted to try something new. With that said, what "companion book" do you recommend for the Bible? By "companion book" I mean something that comments and expands upon the most important passages. I'd like a book that has a either an academic-historical perspective or a Roman Catholic perspective. Basically I'm looking for something to read along with the Bible. Thanks, and God bless you.

>>11893549
Ignatius Catholic Study Bible has what you're looking for. You can buy the NT separately.

Or maybe a book about the Saints

>>11892178
Who give two cucks about /a/. Most of people there are under aged cherry boi faggots or just got out of highschool recently who only talk about waifushit or low quality tripe because it got waifus.

>>11893658

>>11893658
And yet if you don't spend any of your time engaged in any of the hobbies /a/ or /jp/ engage in at all (basically, if you have nothing to do with the past few decades of Japanese culture whatsoever), you are pretty clueless about the times as far as I'm concerned.

>Honestly the gay thing seems like the weakest offense of Sodom and Gomorrah. The far more disturbing aspect of this place is that upon two strangers arriving in the town EVERYONE was prepared to rape them. Every fucking man and the city so eager to bust a nut on two guys at the drop of a hat. Like think about that shit, how many men were even in this city? If you set the bar as low as 100 that still means you're sharing those angels with at least 49 other men if you split them evenly. God forbid you're last in line, you're basically just fucking a mountain of jizz. How do these people function, why was Lot even bargaining for their survival at all? Like maybe for the women and children, but they were probably all kinds of fucked too. This town just fills me with so many questions.
I was I could talk about Bible stories like that without feeling embarassed about it. Even though I'm an atheist, I feel like I should not defile what is believed by others to be the word of God with coarse, vulgar language commonly associated with pornography and Niggerspeak.

>>11893549
Do not read any interpretations written by anybody but yourself. By reading the Bible directly without any aids, you are looking into God's holy words and establishing a contact between yourself and the original writers, seeing the translators as people who put the original manuscripts' words into a language which you may understand, without veering off into the realm of paraphrasing or glossing. Your faith should remain untainted, and you should rely solely on what you may see in the Bible as the source for your religious beliefs.

>>11892547
>God
>unethical
You decide objective morality?

Mind substantiating your claim?

>>11892545
>nonsense about modern technology and cultural attitudes surrounding it being the harbinger of our downfall.
You're confusing tradposters with Christians. Christians by definition (or by the definition of the Nicene Creed) believe that the presence of sin (and as a result, a sinful human nature) is the sole reason behind pain and suffering / our downfall. Human nature has remained consistent in every society throughout history.

>>11893517
>it's not true
cute...

>>11893997
I can only perceive reality through my own eyes, thus I can choose what the rules of such reality are. If i wanted to make you a bear with the ability to type, if my perception of reality you are a bear.
I can choose the morality of my reality, but not of yours

>>11893946
t. arrogant Protestant who dismisses the Church's interpretive wisdom.

>>11893946
I've been reading it for the first time mostly unaided. I am KJV ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

>>11894615
I meant I am use KJV.
I am slleeping now

>>11894577
I'm sure the subjective purpose you've made up for your life is very fulfilling.

>>11892178
It literally started as Jew cult

>>11894705
And then we proceeded to co-opt it for the next 1700 years. It's our faith now.

>>11892887
The Catholics also created Islam

>>11894726
>lol who is abraham?

>>11894427
It's not wrong but it's definitely not wholly right either.

>>11894416
>You're confusing tradposters with Christians.
Meh, the line can be blurry. Two kinds of doomsayers.

>>11894737
Some made up cuck that Jews felt like inserting into their Babylonian fan-fiction.

>>11894841
Christianity is Jewish fan fiction, it is a Jew cult

>>11892547
When was God unethical?
>gives mankind 1000 years to repent before the flood
>requires 5 relatively decent people in Sodom for it to survive
>tries to rescue three others regardless

>>11895236
Talmud is butthurt codified and written 400 AD. Talmudic judaism is only and merely the continuation of pharisees, a minor sect of pre-Christ judaism, whereas Christianity is continuation of the line of Abraham.

>>11893946
Stupid protestant.

>>11896132
It's all cryptic desert cult nonsense that takes far too much investment to obtain viable wisdom from in this day and age. You're so much better off focusing on your career, learning modern science, health / medicine, and maths, and philosophy.

>>11892178
/lit/ pretends they are intelligent and above religion, while based /a/ admits fealty to a higher power.

They hand the bread to you at my church. Brb going there now.

>>11894577
>being able to decide your own morality
is the same as
>deciding your own sense data
which is the same as
>going insane.

>>11896528
How about:

>I don't decide my own morality, but no one does; my morality is my fate.

the beauty of Platonic Idealism which is analogous to Hindu Idealism which are the most noble of all the faiths any human has ever aspired to hold is perfected in the disgusting ressentiment filled scheming cave mutterer screeds of the desert people and their domesticated European adherents

Which is embodied and perfected in the Abrahamic faith so.. there goes that theory.

We exist in the now, this is the immanentization of form. Nothing before or after, this is the becoming process in itself.