/lit/ - Literature

>>13771663
you can see her butt if you pause it

Rabelais, I assume ?

>>13771672
You can't pause a gif

Not exactly rip roaring funny, more quiet chuckles every few pages.

Also not entirely sure if Catholics should be considered Christians

Define pious.
Chesterton is hella funny.

>>13771663
No, if you are religious or progressive you can't be funny.

>>13771663
hilaire belloc was a devout catholic
his cautionary verses are hilairious

>>13771743
the funniest people are always nihilistic fascists and right wing anarchists

>>13771663
Anything by G. K. Chesterton

>>13771756
Nihilistic libertarians/ancaps

>>13771663
How This thread will go: people will point out hilarious books written by people who happened to be Christian, OP will shot down each one Because he wasn't Christian enought by his own ,atheistic, standard.
You can stop reading now

>tfw I spent some time eating with traditionalist Catholic priests and they kept making jokes about executing liberals

>>13771663
This gif makes me mad. I'm mad that I can recognize what this action is even though its been warped rather extremely here. I am angry that my brain made space for this.

>>13771796
any nihilistic libertarian fiction you'd recommend? I was thinking more of Celinesque euronihilist types, maybe Burroughs? he was a gun nut who hated liberals

>>13771663
Confederacy of Dunces?

>>13771808
based pedo priests

>>13771663
I found screwtape letters pretty funny and I'm not a Christian.

Tristram Shandy

>>13771837
The author literally killed himself, how is that a pious Christian

>>13771663
I think The book of Judges should probably qualify. Its literally Total Recall.

>>13771663
>strict moral code
Christianity is literally the religion of not following the religion.
>it's better to have sinned and repented than to not have sinned at all
>doubting god's existence is proof of his existence

>>13771817
>fiction
I was thinking about comedians

>>13771663
I have never encountered any "genuinely funny books" written by anyone.

>>13771663
Don Quixote

>>13771663

If you think farts are funny then the inferno.

>>13771888
Isn't it Unchristian to make fun of someone for being fat, or for being senile? Nice trips btw

>>13771898
Lol what are you talking about? read the fucking book.

>>13771663
Evelyn Waugh. Rabelais. Are you even trying, op?

>>13771913
But the joke is that Sanchez is fat, and Quijote is a crazy old man.

>>13771663
I thought it waas funny how butthurt Dante was towards his contemporaries and how much he hated them to the point of writing revenge porn about them. Though I don't think it was supposed to be funny

>>13771841
bruh... it's not funny at all

Shakespeare died a papyste... and many will call him the supreme humorist, though I don't know if he's exactly devout

>>13771808
Seriously, tell us what happened?

>>13772104
I was staying at a university's Catholic chaplaincy. No scandals as far as I was aware (in fact, I think the community was only 3 years old) but one priest and one trainee priest in particular (there were two priests and two trainee priests) struck me as very worldly and once invited the Catholic ex-mayor who was also a Freemason for dinner.

Augustine

>How, then, shall I respond to him who asks, “What was God doing before he made heaven and earth?” I do not answer, as a certain one is reported to have done facetiously (shrugging off the force of the question). “He was preparing hell,” he said, “for those who pry too deep.”
Always gave me a hearty kek.

>>13771751
Belloc...

>>13772283
>Catholic
>Freemason

Rabelais (for the 3rd time now, take a hint).

>>13772283
He is a heretic. One cannot be catholic and a free mason.

>>13772301
kek that's the line I was just trying to remember

>>13771663
Francisco de Quevedo's satirical poems are pretty funny. I enjoyed the most the ones in which he said:
>Adam should stop being such a pussy because he didn't have to put up with a mother-in-law
>one in which he makes fun of bald men
>one in which he tells Apollo to stop chasing after Daphne and just buy her out as the whore she is to save himself the headache
>every time he insulted his rival Góngora
Him using Góngora's state of belonging to a family of converted Jews is pretty hilarious.

>>13771946
The joke is that Sancho is gullible, and Don Quixote isn't senile as much as he's become a deluded LARPer.

>>13771946
>Quijote
It's pronounced Quick-zote, brainlet.

>>13771663
Chesterton, Belloc, Waugh, Walker Percy.

>>13771721
Catholics are literally the first post-Antiquity Christian denomination so they should qualify alright.

>>13771663
Chesterton can be genuinely entertaining.

>>13771684
> he's not using old Opera that for ages has had escape button to stop everything