/lit/ - Literature

>>20169233
>tfw 8 cm

What are some books about inner spiritual struggle? I'm 30 and it can't keep going on like this lads.

>>19406421

>>19400253
Yeah. But that's not the worst part of Christianity. The concept of Hell itself is irreconcilable with a loving god. There is no good defence to that other than the cope "we can't understand God's logic". When confronted with the problem of Hell, religious people have a habit of saying that humans somehow deserve to go to hell due to sin. There is such a enormous number of problems with this. God could cleanse humans of sin, and yet he doesn't. Freewill? Why is having freewill better preferable to not burning in hell for eternity? To glorify God? Why does God want to be glorified? A perfect being should require nor want anything. And a counterargument to this would be similar to the cope mentioned above "we cannot understand a perfect being", although that is probably not even a very good argument.
Another way I've seen religious people trying to reconcile this is saying that Hell doesn't exist at all, which ignores passages of the canon, although I cannot really speak about denying it as I've not researched it. Jesus makes references to hell and in The Book of Revelation, it is directly that sinners will be cast into a lake of fire, which implies brutal active torment.
Supposing Hell is real, God is the worst monster that has existed and will exist. I can't be told that it doesn't matter what I think and that if I ignore God's commands (which are incredibly convoluted), I will go to Hell. This has no relation to the proposition. Irregardless of whether I'll go on to suffer for eternity after my death, God is unfathomably evil for doing so.
Believing in Christianity requires ignoring some parts of the scripture and not engaging with it heavily, as Christianity is not coherent if you try to put everything together. It is possible to answer a few critical questions about the religion, such as why hell exists, but if you try to answer a hundred of these types of questions, you'll see that the answers start contradicting themselves and it isn't possible to make them properly fit. Of course, there always is "we can't understand God's logic".

>>19377097
Are we really such sick, miserable creatures we need the strength of literal Aeons to overcome a little pussy, a little tasty food, a little comfort and recognition? God help us all.

Books about going into the desert to face your demons once and for all?

Also bible reading; what are some good sites for analysis? Currently using Enduringwords, which seems okay, but I'm wondering if there's anything better.

What are the most depressing verses in the Bible?

Why is he sad?

Can anyone recommend me some high-tier philosophy? Ideally it would be something that scratches the same itch that religion does. I've only read some low-level metaphysics stuff (some Descartes, Kripke) but I'm interested in branching out. Give me something that will help me live a better life. Thanks buds :)

What is the meaning of life? Is it aligning yourself with God?

>The Biblical end of days will probably probably not happen for thousands of years, maybe hundreds of thousands, if it ever happens

Do you guys think I'm right in thinking this? If Matthew says "no man will know the day or the hour" then Christianity as a religion would probably have to be extinct right? Or atleast as close to extinct as it can get. As it is now there's a wackjob fundie for every day of the year crying doomsday so it can't happen anytime soon.