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Why can't Protestants create beautiful works of literature?

>> No.19159361

>>19159355
What is...
Gospel According to Matthew
Gospel According to Mark
Gospel According to Luke
Gospel According to John
Acts of the Apostles
Letter of Paul to the Romans
Letters of Paul to the Corinthians
I Corinthians
II Corinthians
Letter of Paul to the Galatians
Letter of Paul to the Ephesians
Letter of Paul to the Philippians
Letter of Paul to the Colossians
Letters of Paul to the Thessalonians
I Thessalonians
II Thessalonians
Letters of Paul to Timothy
I Timothy
II Timothy
Letter of Paul to Titus
Letter of Paul to Philemon
Letter to the Hebrews
Letter of James
Letters of Peter
I Peter
II Peter
Letters of John
I John
II John
III John
Letter of Jude
Revelation to John

>> No.19159364

>>19159355
They can produce beautiful works of other art like music (Bach), paintings (Dutch masters), etc

>> No.19159374

>>19159361
Beautiful works of literature? Again, as OP asked, why can't Protestants create beautiful works of literature like these?

>> No.19159377

>>19159361
>beautiful

>> No.19159378

>>19159355
>Shakespeare
>Goethe
>Ibsen
>Dostoevsky
>Wagner
>Rembrandt
>Bach

>> No.19159389

>>19159374
Could you give some examples of Catholic literature so that I know what kind of literature you describe as beautiful?

>> No.19159395

>>19159378
It is only presumed that Shakespeare was a Protestant, there's a very large academic following that believes he was Catholic

>> No.19159404

>>19159355
Fuck you nigher

>> No.19159419

>>19159355
Paradise Lost /thread

>> No.19159427

>>19159395
Nonsense, everybody knows he was a secret Muslim. His name was Sheikh Pir!

>> No.19159465

>>19159355
Seems like Christians sects fight between themselves more than anything else. Is this some kind of sibling rivalry thing?

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19159490

Modern catholics and protestants are basically the same. Only autistic 4chan posters care about the 1% of dogmatic differences. Nobody cares irl.

>> No.19159824

>>19159427
The question of his Christianity is entirely different to the retards who say he was a black woman. Shakespeare had Catholic family members and the only reason we believe he is Protestant is because of his Will, which legally had to be in Protestant form when he was alive.

>> No.19159830

>>19159427
Pbuh

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>>19159378
>Dostoevsky

>> No.19159866

>>19159355
Virtually all of the best novelists are British or German protestants.

>> No.19159878

>regards novels as a high form of literature
lmao

>> No.19159885

>>19159355
Because their faith lacks works of beauty just like their churches and life

>> No.19159894

>>19159490
>Do you support gay rights
Prots: "Yes, my pastor is a lesbian!"
>Do you support abortion
Prots: "Yes, #herbodyherchoices"

>> No.19159899

>>19159419
This. For 200 years across Europe Paradise Lost was considered the greatest work of literature ever written.