/lit/ - Literature

>>6451340
What if it is?

>>6451343
J-just curious

Without a doubt. "Young" Christians are the most sincere people I know.

Yes.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/september/9.24.html

>>6451349
Being Christian is great tbh.

nah, just some people online are brainwashed by memes and believe it's not overwhelmingly dying in the west.

>>6451357
Something can be trendy and dying.

>protestants

at least be a real christian

>>6451359
OP pic is a Catholic ecumenical service, bright boy.

>>6451362
really? You thought I was referring to OP?

What's the best church for an atheist Jew boy?

>>6451358
Like abusing meth

>>6451359
Go with God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYi9Vr8bHJY

>>6451373
Catholicism. You'll fall into the rhythm of the rituals soon enough.

>>6451373
Episcopal

>>6451373
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Stein

>>6451387
>>6451391
These two have pretty much the same rituals, btw

>>6451387
Why do you say Catholicism, and are you a Catholic?
>>6451391
Why do you say [Anglican], and are you an [Anglican]?
>>6451392
Neat

>>6451373
A LES deli.

>>6451396
>Why do you say [Anglican], and are you an [Anglican]?
Because you wanted a denomination even though you don't believe in God (yet?). Anglicans are extremely liberal theologically, and very traditional with ceremony and so on. But they also allow traditional theology, such as with Anglo-Catholics, who often pray to saints.

Yes

>>6451391
I hate post-modern weaklings like this

>>6451407
Yeah, haha, nothing like that was said before WWII

>>6451409
It was said, yes, by heretics.

>>6451407
>I hate seeing intelligent men of faith

>>6451412
>man of faith
>using atheist rhetoric

>>6451411
heresy = POSTMODERN

>>6451424
What the fuck, this dude is making Francis sound like Benedict.

Also Postmodernism is a mental disorder.

>>6451431
There's nothing particularly postmodern about heresy though.

>>6451412

>intelligent men of faith

the ride never ends

>>6451442
Well, you're absolutely right about that.

This guy sounds like a pantheist, almost. Why hasn't the Archbishop of Canterbury taken him to task?

>>6451373
What's the appeal of Christianity for an atheist Jew?

>>6451457
Have you considered that maybe he realized that Jesus Christ is the messiah and Christianity is the one, true, good faith?

>>6451457
I very much admire Jesus as a figure, I also enjoy learning church history and Christian theology.

Just because I'm an atheist Jew doesn't mean I'm not interested in this stuff.

It's post-modernism. People are left without direction and thus start having nostalgia for things they were never even a part of.

>>6451447
He got in a dispute with Rowan Williams, but the Archbishop doesn't have total power. Matthew Parker's problems controlling the Church is sort of a precedent for that.

>>6451481
>the English fucked up religion like they fucked up everything else not related to poems, pudding, and pig iron

Unsurprising

>>6451340
It's nothing but a backlash to the growing prominence of atheism.

>>6451489
no, it's just people converting and people leaving the Church, like it always has been

>>6451484
Nah, the Anglican communion is intentionally open to a wide range. You got Anglo-Catholics and even Anglo-Papists on one end, who use the Anglican Missal or even often have their Mass in Latin and pray for saints to join in prayer, and on the other you have near Lutherans. I prefer it that way.

>>6451494
How do you not see how fucking retarded that is?

>>6451502
>Anglican

>>6451340
You think Christianity is becoming trendy only because you are getting older and people tend to start getting religious in their twenties or later after a period of not caring or being smugly atheist in their youth. Christianity is not really becoming a trend. The only thing trendy right now is apathy about organized religion and not taking your own beliefs too seriously. Being too Christian is actually very untrendy right now.

>>6451502
I don't. If you want to believe in Purgatory, go ahead. If you don't, go ahead.. One is right, one is wrong, but you're going to be saved either way, and calling discrepancy on this point "heresy" is what waters down the term and makes it so laughable to outsiders. Keep certain traditional structure and doctrine, stay prima scriptura, and let individual congregations add or not to that as they will so long as they don't take it to a point that it conflicts with the basis of the Church

Daily reminder that Catholic threads are /pol/itics and not literature.

Only Literature/Scripture (ie Protestantism) will be allowed on /lit/.

Back to >>>/pol/itically incorrect.

>>6451391
>>6451424
Neither of these view points are "post-modern" you retards. There are Christians as far back as the middle-ages who professed views like this (secretly) in various mystic doctrines.

>>6451373
Messianic judaism

>>6451509
Hence why it's becoming popular on 4chan.

>>6451373
>Wanting to join a thinly veiled fascist club

>>6451340
Only in specific countries/on the internet.

In Bongland christianity is barely even an acknowledged phenomenon (outside of the occasional nutjob preaching on street corners). There are christians and there are non-christians, and noone significant really cares either way.

>>6451340
What exactly would make Christianity trendy?

>>6452297
Because fedoras are making atheism untrendy, and 4chan posters are disgusting bandwagon hoppers

>>6452383
So instead of being less edgy they start pretending to be Christian? That makes no sense whatsoever.

>>6451340
>>6451349

Don't want to be another fedora-tipper new atheist, but how can you believe this parade is sincere?

>>6451424
holy shit it's spock

>>6452383
>>6452297
I think it's mostly that a lot of us are getting older and changing. I myself found it very tiring living life with ironic distance to everything and denying any sort of "irrational" spiritual/emotional aspect to life.

>>6452589
That makes much more sense than Christianity becoming the new hipster.

>>6452595
It's a fairly natural direction to be at least a little curious about as you get to that stage in life.

>>6451457
Ask Marx.

Can confirm. I go to a large southern university and you can't take two steps without knocking over a protestant mouth breather undergoing one of their jesus seizures