/lit/ - Literature

CS Lewis....The Screw Tape letters

>>6096527
What a boring book. "Routine is literally satan" repeat for 120 pages. Christians are such boring, terrified people.

>>6096551
>KJV
burn, heretic scum.

>>6096465
Berdayev's philosophy of religion

>>6096556
Really? I didn't find it to be boring.
It could be said that C.S. Lewis’ aim in The Screwtape Letters was to expose the ways of "devils" in relation to man....The path to hell is a gentle slope.

>>6096465
J.R.R. Tolkien was a translator / lexicographer for parts of the Jerusalem Bible (namely the book of Jonah but it is claimed he helped compile Job too).

>>6096559
May our Lord forgive ye.

>>6096556
I'm Christian and am neither boring nor terrified.

>>6096591
That's nice but when you take away all the schizophrenic stuff that doesn't exist it's just a boring rant against modern society by a terrified old man. Christians are pathetic. It's an anti-human death cult for people who are absolutely petrified that they exist, others have more, and they will eventually not exist. It is disgusting escapism of the highest order.

>>6096637
If you're a christian you're implicitly afraid. Likely you're not even an actual christian, you just marginally adhere to some tenants or call everything up to and including the ressurection "a metaphor", because you are afraid of hell, which is retarded.

>>6096638
Well, I'm agnostic at this point in my life and I admit that easily. I don't really care either way if people believe in God or not.
OP wanted some Christian Lit. recommendations. CS Lewis Screwtape letters came to mind. How did this turn into "terrified Christians and disgusting escapism?"

>>6096648
>If you're a christian you're implicitly afraid

I fear God but I'm not terrified of Him and I do not fear Hell because Christ saved me from ever having to go there.

>>6096673
>I'm afraid, not terrified
S E M A N T I C S

>>6096683
This is a literature board; is it shocking to you that I'm particular with my vocabulary?

>>6096686
Being afraid of him is no better or worse than being terrified, why are you trying to phrase it like it is?

>>6096673
You only adhere to the religion because living and dying absolutely terrifies you, and you wish you were billionaire. It's revolting and laughable, your poetic schizophrenia is happily dying in public eye, enjoy your coming decades of mockery. PS /pol/, most christians are niggers.

>>6096671
Atheist shitposting.

Book of Enoch

>>6096699
>shitposting

Or as it's known by Christians on 4chan, posting

>>6096695
How are you able to make a value judgement between being afraid and terrified? I used the word "afraid" because it's from the Scriptures:

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
- Proverbs 9:10

It does not say "the terror of the Lord."

>>6096698
It is amusing that you presume to know why I adhere to my religion. I'm praying for you son.

>>6096465
A Canticle for Leibowitz if you want something more genrefiction-ish.

>>6096728
Definitely wanna read this at some point. Also pic related.

>>6096638
lol

>>6096722
It's amusing that you believe you're fooling anyone but yourself. Jesus never existed, the entirety if your incoherent religion is just dumb, General Butt Naked is a christian minister, christians are such petty faggots they even wish other denominations of christians go to an imaginary dimension of wanton pain. It's just sick. Again, it's really funny that you actually believe denying the obvious truths about your self-inflicted delusions makes them appear any more noble. Life isn't fair, you're gonna die. Oh noes!

>>6096638

>>6096759
>Jesus never existed

Josephus and Tacitus disagree. I trust them and the Scriptures more than you and whoever you taught you such things.

>>6096762
Stay mad and deluded. Your religion is dying and all you can do is shitpost an on-its-way-out meme impotently in your off topic or in the case of these abberationally clever OP marginally related threads.

>>6096797
Please calm down.

>>6096773
Josephus lived decades after jesus supposedly died and his records are known to have been tampered with by christians. All tacitus confirms is they have been regarded as a cult for two millenia. Try actually knowing anything about the bullshit you memorized to justify your willing ignorance.

>>6096802
Most (and by most i mean 90%+ of independent historicians) agree that Jesus existed. If you can understand Spanish, buy any book by Antonio Piñero, expert in early christianism. He is not even a christian.

>>6096802
As I mentioned, I trust them more than you. You are free to slander them but you cannot enforce your opinion on the rest of us.

>>6096773
>Josephus and Tacitus disagree.

They weren't contemporaries of Jesus

>>6096801
I'm sorry you're so upset, you don't need to announce it though.

>>6096797
>your religion is dying
People have been saying that for hundreds of years. Christianity's not going anywhere. Atheists have never been anything more than an obnoxiously vocal minority, and they never will be.

Christ-chan is so poorly drawn.

>>6096819
> People have been saying that for hundreds of years

And? Still is true.

>>6096819
>Christianity's not going anywhere.

Yes, that's why the word of the Pope is still absolute, as it always has been

Oh wait, it hasn't been for centuries

>>6096819
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Features30Nov+2013

>>6096813
The fact that a Jewish historian even mentions Christ is illuminating. Remember, Josephus basically dismissed Christ as some rabble rouser who got his come uppance; NOT as the Savior of Mankind. Don't you think it would be odd for a historian to include Christ as basically a footnote if he did not have credible reason to believe that such a person actually existed?

>>6096814
I forgive you.

>>6096838
>Remember, Josephus basically dismissed Christ as some rabble rouser who got his come uppance; NOT as the Savior of Mankind.

Which is probably a more accurate description than any Christian text will ever give you

>>6096812
Facts are not opinions. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Tacitus lived in like 120ad and never even mentions Jesus the man.
>>6096811
I do not speak spanish; regrettably, but I do intent to purchase reza aslan's book unless anyone can recommend a better one. They still have to draw from the same two primary documents as everyone else, though, and said documents are anything but absolute.

>>6096828
Did you even read the rest of his post?

>>6096465
The Nag Hammadi library collection of Gnostic texts

>>6096845
>confirmation bias: the post

>>6096845
I disagree. Are you Jewish?

>>6096853
Let me guess, in your mind the Christian religion was started as a conspiracy by Saul of Tarsus.

>>6096855
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>>6096836

>>6096637
Of course, you're boring.
Nobody can have a conversation or argument with you because you have a divine truth which manifests itself through the sheer force of your personality to make anything known to you alone as truth and your opinions in all regards right because of the connection you establish through the almighty power of feewings.

>>6096811
>Most (and by most i mean 90%+ of independent historicians) agree that Jesus existed.

They also admit that besides this, we know next to nothing about the man. The only two reliable facts in his life are probably the baptism by John, his crucifixion and maybe the storming of the Temple. The rest (which includes all of the miracles and the very blatant misrepresentation of the Jewish status-quo) is at best not backed up by anything and at worst a complete impossibility

>>6096860
Let me guess, you're mad that you weren't able to neatly namedrop something you're mostly ignorant about and finalize discussion.

>>6096858

>a Christian
>accusing others of a confirmation bias

>>6096869
Right, i dont disagree there, but the thing is he probably existed. In fact, is harder to explain christianism without the existence of Jesus

>>6096868
You're skilled at writing without speaking.

>>6096870
I'm not ignorant, I simply give more credence to Josephus and Tacitus than you do.

>>6096880

>I'm not ignorant, I simply give more credence to Josephus and Tacitus than you do.

But they weren't contemporaries, so it doesn't matter how much credence you give them.

>>6096880
You literally don't know what tacitus even said, which makes you by-defintion ignorant.
>>6096906
Also this

>>6096465
Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus presents an interesting spin.

>>6096906
That is simply your opinion.

>>6096917
I know that he attests the existence of Christianity which obviously supports the existence of Christ. But again, I'm sure you think Christianity was a conspiracy started by Saul of Tarsus.

>>6096976
It's not an opinion that they weren't contemporaries, it is objective, easily verifiable fact. Egyptians believed that Horus actually for-real ruled the lands for thousands of years. In hindsight, we study the intricacies of their delusion. You are silly, and becoming more irrelevant by the day.

>>6096984
It is your opinion that they aren't reliable sources and I think you are projecting just a bit.

>>6096836
I saw that chart, and my first thought was "atheism has been on the rise since the 70's because it correlates with communism, and the aggressive spread of Soviet imperialism through southeast Asia."

Then I realized that chart was a representation of Australians. What the fuck dude, seriously? No one cares what Australia thinks. You're like the Canada of the southern hemisphere. Countries that matter are still largely religious.

>>6096838
>a Jewish historian ... dismissed Christ as some rabble rouser who got his come uppance

A Jew who hates Jesus? Now there's somethin' ya don't see every day...

>>6096997
Okay this is two or three times you've confirmed you don't actually know what the words you're saying mean. I don't know who you believe you're convincing by displaying you abject retardation. Josephus records were tampered with, Tacitus literally call christianity a cult and says nothing else, and they both lived well after his supposed death. You're religion really is dying and becoming more irrelevant by the day. I don't know how, in your diseased mind, this statement construes any level of "projection" on my behalf. There is no backlash against athiests anywhere except for /pol/, I'm not even an atheist anyway. You will continue being marginalized and mocked for the rest of your life as the final adherents of your religion (who don't live in Africa) die out in the next decade or two. Stay mad.

Wow there are some fucking butt-devastated people in this thread.

>>6097355
Only three letters separate atheism from autism.

>>6097217
http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2012/05/30/is-atheism-increasing-at-the-expense-of-theism/

It doesnt take too much effort to find these stadistics. Once again, christians are not friends of evidence.

>>6097369

>namecalling is a valid argument

East of Eden is required Christian fiction.

>>6096551
>KJV
might as well be a mudslime.

>>6096673
>saved
LMAO PROTESTANTS
not even once

Do I have to read the Bible before I read Inferno?

>>6097575
That would probably make sense.
Yes.

>>6097575
Nah, you win nothing.
Read Aristotle instead.

>>6097442
>nonwhite detected

>>6096465
Lord of the rings is a christian story in a nonchristian world enjoy.

>>6097222
#tolerance

>>6097602
Amen.