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christianity's influence on literature and philosophy:
>Dante
>John Milton
>Augustine
>Tolstoy
>Dostoyevsky
>Melville
>Hawthorne
>Thomas Aquinas
>Bunyan
>William Blake
>Kierkegaard
>Willa Cather
>Wendell Berry
>T.S. Eliot
>George Herbert
>Dickens
>C. S. Lewis
>Tolkien
>Flannery O’Connor
>AW Tozer
>Graham Greene
>Thomas Kempis
>Thomas Browne
atheism's influence on literature and philosophy:
>Steven Pinker
>Richard Dawkins
>Arthur C. Clarke
>Bertrand Russell
>Christopher Hitchens

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19960624

ass

>> No.19960632

>>19960591
This is why I can't take anti-christian posters on /lit/ seriously, I just know they're utterly ignorant.

>> No.19960673

>>19960591
Why didn't you list pagan writers and philosophers?
>>19960632
christianity has a cool mythology and thus produced great art but let's not kid ourselves

>> No.19960674

If you count science as a branch of philosophy (which it is) then atheism has had a greater influence.

>> No.19960689

>>19960674
Science is not a branch of philosophy lmao the shit you faggots say sometimes and science is not inherently atheistic.

>> No.19960697

I need literature with jewish/judaism influence

>> No.19960700

>>19960674
He also didn't mention the greatest/most well-known philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Descartes, Hume...) were not Christian

>> No.19960702

>>19960673
>christianity has a cool mythology
This is how I know you have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
Come back when you've read books.

>> No.19960705

>>19960673
>christianity has a cool mythology and thus produced great art but let's not kid ourselves
Which means? Do you think you're above all those great writers of the past?

>> No.19960710

>>19960632
>>19960673
>>19960674
>>19960689
>>19960697
>>19960700
>>19960702
>>19960705
these are all me sorry for samefagging so hard

>> No.19960713

>>19960702
It's true though
What, are you seething because I called it a mythology? Sorry, it's not special as far as religions go

>> No.19960714

>>19960689
https://googlethatforyou.com?q=is%20science%20a%20branch%20of%20philosophy

>> No.19960722

>>19960714
Φιλοσοφία (means learn greek retard)

>> No.19960723

>>19960705
>appeal to authority
lol
What about you, are you above all these philosophers >>19960700?
What about the pagan writers and playwrights of antiquity?

>> No.19960744

>>19960714
Philosophy of science =/= science. Never go full retard. There's also Philosophy of religion yet religion is not a 'branch' of philosophy.

>> No.19960792

>>19960744
The scientific method is an empirical method of acquiring knowledge. Philosophy is defined as the study of the theoretical basis of a particular branch of knowledge or experience.

And yes Christianity and many other religions would fall under the label of a philosophy

>> No.19960799

>>19960722
meant for
>>19960689

>> No.19960803

>>19960723
Did I insinuate that Christianity must be true because great writers were Christian? No, I would just as soon call you a moron for downplaying the validity of Greek paganism to the ancient Greeks as Christianity to us. You still have yet to explain what you explicitly meant, likewise I should not be pressed to explain what I explicitly meant with a so called logical fallacy, which in many cases do prove to be real arguments, I will nevertheless explain.

I merely recognised your lazy hubris, 'but let's not kid ourselves', ahh yes, this vast tradition can just be flung away by a nobody such as yourself and a nothing philosophy of scepticism on 4chan. Milton and etc. just didn't know as well as us.

>> No.19960813

>>19960792
>The scientific method is an empirical method of acquiring knowledge.
No, it acquires raw data and information of the physical world, not knowledge.
>Philosophy is defined as the study of the theoretical basis of a particular branch of knowledge or experience.
Philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom. The angle of seeing philosophy as synonymous with physical science is an outdated and archaic use.

>> No.19960815

>>19960723
also

>Descartes, Kant, Wittgenstein
>non/anti Christian

>> No.19960827

>>19960591
>atheism is new atheism
don't post again retarded amerimutt.

>> No.19960834

>>19960813
I copy-pasted those definitions from a dictionary

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>>19960834
So did I.