/lit/ - Literature

inb4 Bible

>>13076262
Confessions of Saint Augustine

The Qur'an

>>13076268
Catholics will go out of their way to read everything but the Bible.

>>13076277
Perhaps the Bible contains far too much extraneous material and interpolation and is written badly in many places with info dumps totally irrelevant today

>>13076262
Read the catechism if you haven't. Read it very carefully, and if you don't grasp all the terms go back to Aristotle. Keep in mind so much of Catholic theology was formed in the first millennium when the most powerful tool philosophers had was Aristotle's syllogism.

>>13076277
It's literally read at every mass, which we have multiple times a day, every day.

>>13076292
I second this. Good luck reading the part where it is literally just a list of laws. Kings is the best book.

>>13076425
Reading excerpts that make you feel happy isn't reading it.

>>13076262
Unironically this one

>>13076425
read in latin?

>>13076500
not that anon but no. how about you attend mass guy and figure out which way you're going. readings in the ordinary form are given in the local language.

>>13076419
Is this book a meme or is it good?

>>13076520
>no
say thanks to martin luther for that one, cathocuck.

>>13076465
>>13076300
second these

>>13076535
More like Huss

>>13076465
Could you elaborate? I'm thinking about reading it one of these days.

>>13076527
It's a meme. Not to say Dawkins is a meme. But the fact that a evolutionary scientist got this mad at people not believing his work, that he now goes out to make people stop believing in their faith/community is a meme.

>>13076262
Crime and Punishment.

>>13076551
it's kind of an existential approach to faith, ellaborating ideas from Spinoza and Kierkegaard, and kind of postulates the existence of god stems from the individual need of a god rather than from a rational universal cause that sustains the universe. The author very warmly walks you through a lot of classical and modern theology and philosophy, and he shits a lot on Nietzsche and protestantism. It's good fun. (sorry if this doesn't make a lot of sense, english is not my first language)

>>13076262
Abrahamic faiths are retarded, anon.

>>13076605
No that made sense. I'll probably read it now cuz of the Kierkegaard, thanks.

>>13076623
based and semitepilled

>>13076455
nah the ones about hell get read too
>>13076500
no but some of the responsorials and hymns are

thomas aquinas!

>>13076262
read the guy who btfo Aquinas

The bible or the Catechist

Lost in the Cosmos
>easily Walker Percy's strangest book. On its surface a darkly humorous parody of the literature of self-help, this late work ... runs the reader down a gauntlet of multiple-choice questions ... whose cumulative effect is to leave her more bereft of answers than when she began. Along the way it conjures up dialogues between talk show hosts and long-dead theologians, inveigles its readers into seriously contemplating suicide, shoulders in on the debates of academic semioticians, presents an overview of world history that predicts World War III erupting as a consequence of Western anomie, and arrives at its denouement by way of … science fiction stories of nuclear war and alien encounters.

good read

CHESTERTON ORTHODOXY. A must read

>>13076292
Perhaps you are a dumb frogposter

>>13076432
Genesis is the best imo

>>13077134
But isn't this why most Catholics who love reading would rather read something besides the Bible never reqd it all? Even the occassional thumper who does read the whole thing seldom reads much of it, he just reads and rereads the same 20% or so

>>13076292

Perhaps Catholic doctrine is contrary to the word of Jesus and he never calls Mary "mother".

>>13076419

I unironically agree because Catholics are essentially and practically Atheists.