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Anyone else become strongly Christian / Catholic after reading lots of historical fiction and poetry?

>be me
>agnostic
>read lots of Sigrid Undset
>read Don Quiote
>read Divine Comedy
>read Tennyson
>start dabbling in Lewis
>mfw I love God now
>mfw agnosticism is cured

>> No.21767612

>>21767033
Now read turn-of-the-century-era Egyptology texts

>> No.21767623
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Of course that's your contention. Tomorrow you'll read some Greeks and start poasting how you are a "based pagan".

>> No.21768691

>>21767033
What about Tennyson’s poetry made you want to be Christian/Catholic? Share your favorite poems of his.

>> No.21769025

>>21767623
kek

>> No.21769052

>read Paradise Lost
>get almost convinced
>at the end it gives you a tl;dr of the bible and you're reminded of all retarded shit in Old Testament that is supposed to pass off as actions of the perfect God
>get unconvinced