/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13549469]

This book is absolutely not worth reading for the purposes of edification, least of all in its entirety. Anyone who suggests you read this for a foundation of literary knowledge is actually just a Christian trying to get his foot in the door. Judges is a comedy of errors where everyone is improbably retarded, Job has the most simplistic message possible, ecclesiastes is like a Nihlism resolved in a shear copout. The same 7 parables get recycled over and over, mostly about husbandry and entirely redundant one to another. The parable of the potter is especially retarded because the message could not be simpler and the allegory is irrelevant to thinking, feeling conscious beings. The only thing you might find is the odd idiom like "there's nothing new under the sun" or "set ones teeth on edge".

[Anonymous No.13549478]

>>13549469
An extremely broad criticism by an ignoramus. Why did you make this post?

[Anonymous No.13549495]

>>13549478
Because its true. The truth needn't be particularly sophisticated. Surely that is a matter I can even find myself in agreement with Christians on if they actually believe this crap is the ultimate truth of all reality instead of something like Heidegger.

[Anonymous No.13549542]

>>13549478
Prithee (I can say that because I read The Bible) what relevant knowledge does Leviticus or Kings 1 and 2 have for an apostate?

[Anonymous No.13549564]

There is no subtlety in the entire Bible to speak of.

[Anonymous No.13549616]

Here's the Bible reading plan if you absolutely feel compelled to read this crap as a literary pursuit.

Genesis
Exodus
Deuteronomy
Job
Ecclesiastes
Psalms
1 of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel or Ezekiel (they are highly redundant within themselves, but particularly when taken altogether
Matthew and John
Romans
Corinthians II
Hebrews
First Epistle of James
Revelation

That's all you really "need" if even that.

[Anonymous No.13549621]

>>13549495
It's not true because it betrays only (at best) a surface-level knowledge of the Bible.

>instead of something like Heidegger
I see you are going through your "philosophical" phase, something you'll grow out of eventually.

>>13549542
>Prithee
Well, Shakespeare, if you are reading the Bible just for utility and "relevant knowledge" you are reading it for the wrong reasons.

[Anonymous No.13549638]

>>13549621
If I read the Bible and believed what it said I would feel aggrieved for my own existence, would think of God as a lower order maniac of some kind and would become a fervent antinatalist wearing a shirt saying "Birth is the beginning of damnation".

[Anonymous No.13549644]

>>13549495
>Heidegger
Read Guenon then you will believe the Bible

[Anonymous No.13549652]

>>13549638
You are either stupid or pretending to be.

[Anonymous No.13549662]

>>13549652
>argument comes up
>eh, this is hurting my head and making me angry. I'll just call him stupid and evil like the book told me to do.

[Anonymous No.13549735]

One would think God would be a better poet than even Shakespeare and a better rhetorician than Socrates but this simply isn't the case.

[Anonymous No.13549745]

>>13549621
Christianity, like all religion, is a form of "philosophy" too anon, but simply one that includes a lifestyle guide alongside it's particular exposition of metaphysics. Christians take it to represent the ultimate Truth, but anyone could just as easily let Heidegger serve the same for them.

[Anonymous No.13549747]

>>13549662
It's not an argument, it's just weakness on your part as well as a demonstration of your capability to misinterpret and exaggerate the "horrors" of the Bible. Grow a pair and stop using brainlet wojack memes.

[Anonymous No.13549754]

>>13549745
Theology in general doesn't even aspire to be philosophy because it is so dragged through the mire of a prepossessed and highly specific set of ideas that it fails to approach these realistically, dispassionately, objectively and organically; from first principles, as the greater body of Philosophy does.

[Anonymous No.13549784]

>>13549735
Christians who recognize the inarguable supremacy of Shakespeare instead attempt to claim him as a Catholic, despite his work displaying a closer alignment to pagan sentiments than anything Christian. They also ignore the whole bisexuality part, but in order to claim the whole "divinely inspired" bit, they need to admit that either uninspired random humans can outdo the Almighty, or that God doesn't hate gay behavior as much as they argue so.

[Anonymous No.13549795]

>>13549747
Anyone who derives optimism from the bible is just getting high off their own supply (endorphins) and abusing the Bible to their own purposes simply because it has the sound of something more dignified than any thing they themselves could contrive of (especially because they are stupid). From there its just a matter of selective listening. Did Paul say "Sit back and relax and don't forget to mention Jesus' name to St. Peter at the Pearly Gates to redeem your free salvation!" or did he say "Work out your salvation with fear and trembling"? Did Jesus say "Party at my house!" or did he say "For many will be called but few will be chosen"? You see, where regards the fate of all humanity, The Bible is the single most pessimistic text in existence. Not cynical but pessimistic to be sure.

[Anonymous No.13549824]

>>13549784
Yep, you got it. Nobody who was an ardent Christian would call death an equalizer. In fact, to a Christian it ought to be considered the least equal of all things.

[Anonymous No.13549825]

>>13549735
Careful anon: pointing out basic, sober facts like this will likely result in images of black hats soon being sent your way. Best to just praise the book, as the book itself tells you to.

[Anonymous No.13549857]

the influences of the bible are inherent to literature throughout the world spanning across centuries. reading it as a basis for understanding people of the past and their writings is not at all a useless endeavor, regardless of the teachings themselves.

[Anonymous No.13549881]

>>13549795
Whatever you say, master theologian.

>>13549825
>>13549735
The Bible isn't a play or a book of poetry. Even if he wanted to be a better poet or rhetorician his work would fly over your head, so you would then have to denounce it as puerile or stupid so as to save face

[Anonymous No.13549886]

>>13549881
>Whatever you say, master theologian.

Ah, that's more like it. Even sarcastic acquiescence I will take for the real thing (for what it lacks in vigor, it may as well be).

[Anonymous No.13549891]

>>13549881
You don't suppose if God's word didn't say bats are birds or that locusts have 4 legs or that it were the most beautiful thing ever conceived in terms of its prose or that it contained sophisticated argumentation that it would somehow be better received by a greater number of people?

[Anonymous No.13549921]

>>13549881
I'm not commenting on "theology". Theology is just a hypocrisy unto itself is it not. I'm simply saying if people believed the things the Bible actually said, they would not look forward to dying, much less the end of the world. Its much more a commentary on the dangerous mechanisms of human self-defense that exist in the Optimism Bias.

[Anonymous No.13549933]

>>13549891
>its God's burden to appeal to human aesthetics

The LORD scoffs at you.

[Anonymous No.13549943]

>>13549933
>God is just pretending to be retarded to hide himself, like a big dick

Okey Dokey.

[Anonymous No.13550227]

The book literally tells you to turn off your brain (ie: Walk not after the imagination of your own heart). Its the most intellectually stunted thing ever conceived.

[Anonymous No.13550393]

>>13549795
That's your family pic? because you're a retarded blackpilled incel projecting himself onto the bible you fucking idiot