/lit/ - Literature

is that even a question? lol

>>19351838
Dostoyevsky is better than every single atheist author combined.

>>19351838
Imagine not putting epic bible references in the book? It’s like an Easter egg but the Bible dude!!1!11!1

>>19351838
Well, whom did James Joyce say was the "greatest of English prose writers" ?

>>19351838
Classically, Christians. Now it hardly matters.

>>19351844
Dosto was a degenerate pulp fiction writer who was paid by the word to fuel his insatiable gambling addiction. If you like his work you are the literary equivalent of a soccer mom picking up a harlequin romance novel in the check out line at the local super market.

>>19352215
Damn, that really says something about all the atheist writers who can't even touch him then. If Dostoy is a low tier author and still destroys every secular author imagine a good Christian author

>>19351838
Christians are better at fiction and poetry, atheists are better at philosophy and non- fiction /thread

>>19351838
The Japanese

>>19352521
>atheists are better at philosophy and non- fiction /thread
Uhhh.

Theist Philosophers:
Plato
Aristotle
Plotinus
Aquinas
Kant
Kierkegaard
Hegel
Heidegger

Atheist Philosophers:
Hume
Russell

>>19351838
Doestoevsky or Nietzsche?
Frederick Copleston or Bertrand Russell?
G. K. Chesterton or Christopher Hitchens?
John Donne or John Milton? (if you think Milton is better, you don't read. Just read what is popular)
J.R.R. Tolkien or George R.R. Martin?
C.S Lewis or Asimov?

Anyways, read Jeremy Taylor, and John Henry Newman. They mog every writers on this list (Jeremy Taylor especially) except for Donne and Milton.

>>19352527
You forgot Camus, Diderot, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche also quality > quantity

>>19352532
Milton was not an atheist you're retarded kill yourself faggot

>>19352535
If you're banking on quality with Diderot, Russell and Schopenhauer then you're fucked. None of them are fit to even lick Aristotles feet.

Polytheists

>>19351838
Virtually all great writers were either theists or atheists who nevertheless saw the value in religious belief. There’s literally no such thing as a good anti-theist writer.

>>19351838
Athiests who are in denial about their christianity.

>>19352685
Atheists who converted years after their most famous works.

>>19352651
One of the most influential romantic poets was an atheist and critic of religion

>>19352749
Literally who?

>>19352535
>quality > quantity
Yeah bro I'm sure Hume or Russell are better than fucking Plato or Kant

>>19352521
only faggots /thread themselves.

>>19352749
Romanticism is anti-philosophy.

>>19352215
This pasta is not good because it means people lien Kafka, Joyce, and Nietzsche were "the literary equivalent of a soccer mom picking up a harlequin novel".

>>19351838
I’m not a Christian and the shadow that Christianity has left across the morality of the west is a travesty, but Christians write great literature. Literature is fundamentally interpretation of the divine
>>19352749
Romanticism is an embarrassingly overloved era of literature, and it is so because it’s popularly taught to the retards who study English lit at university. Romanticism was retroactively refuted by Herman Melville in Pierre
>>19352521
Maybe relative to Christians, but not compared to theists who aren’t Christians. There are no atheist philosophers as brilliant as Plato or Spinoza

>>19351838
Christians have THE bestseller that no atheist book could ever dream of being near.

>>19353800
>>19353959
>It's bad because... it just is ok!
You guys seem upset that Shelley pre-emptively proved wrong your notion that atheists can't be great artists.

>>19354099
Cope

>>19352215
>soccer mom picking up a harlequin romance novel in the check out line at the local super market.
literally (well, figuratively, but you get the point) me

>>19353819
YES

>>19351838
I posted pic related on /sci/ and got banned

>>19352527
Like this anon say: >>19352535 you forget other atheists philosophers.
Anyways, the atheist philosophers are shit, except for Schopenhauer.

>>19352535
>quality > quantity
Correct, but Nietzsche, Camus, Russell and Diderot are shit. Imagine comparing those motherfuckers to fucking Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant or Plato.

>>19353959
>Maybe relative to Christians, but not compared to theists who aren’t Christians. There are no atheist philosophers as brilliant as Plato or Spinoza
Kant and Aquinas were Christians

>>19351925
*whomst

>>19351838
Ancient Roman pagans