/lit/ - Literature

>not esoteric Hiterlist
lurk moar, you'll get there one day.

>not esoteric Hitlerist
lurk moar, you'll get there one day.

Catholic church is absolutely cuck tier at the moment. Not to mention it fell for Satan's third temptation. I would consider the true faith instead.

>>11858233
The Bible

>>11858258
Orthodoxy was always cucked. But that has no bearing on the truth value of the two faiths.

>>11858233
Are you an Atheist or from a different faith? You should read "Catholicism" edited by George Brantl. I think it's a very good introduction to the faith, but is a mature text that goes somewhat in depth, theologically. If you are an atheist, I would highly suggest you read "Spirit of Thomism" by Étienne Gilson; this book highlights the main philosophical view of the faith. If you read that, I suggest you get familiarized with at least Aquinas's five proofs of God's existence. Here are 3 really good videos on the first way (shortest to longest):
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmpw0_w27As&t=1s
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b7ekInWOMw&t=492s
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx9gLvLYF5s&t=1930s

You can even go on Youtube. If you have any basic questions on Catholicism, just type in the keywords of your topic with "Catholic" after it. You'll find tons of Catholic Answers videos. They're a radio show and they are a good normie introduction to the faith.

Good luck anon,

pax Christi

>>11858233

>>11858302
denominations are one of satans tricks to divide the body of christ

>>11858481
yeah, I agree

>2018
>not being a buddhist

>>11858233
Institutes of the Christian Religion will set you straight

>>11858518
Please ignore this moron, OP.

I might start going to church again. I want to drive an extra 20 miles to go to an SSPX church instead of the one I used to go to as a kid.

>>11858258
Epic

>>11858556
Driving like 50 miles for church is a heinous waste of both time and resources

>>11858260
Catholics don’t read the Bible
Why do you think they still go around praying to statues of Mary

>>11858611
I don't feel inspired at the local one. Boring homilies.
If I can get something out of it, it will be a time and resources well used. I'd like to hear the latin litergy.

Is this the case for SSPX churches? Do many members of the congregation drive the extra mile to attend?

>>11858258
>at the moment

That's the key phrase. OP, join us now and you can take part in the great cleansing when we purge the Church of the Modernists, the homos, and the pedos. It's gonna be a good time. It'll be the Counter-Reformation all over again.

>>11858632
Ironically, I have sat through hundreds of Scriptureless, platitude-ridden Evangelical services, but the few Catholic Masses I have attended featured a good deal of Bible-reading.

>>11858636
I'm pretty sure the main point of attending Mass is taking Communion.

>>11858556
>SSPX

What's the catholic doctrine about pre-Eve Adam? Archetypal hermaphrodite like in the bronze tablets, or something else?

>>11858656
>What's the catholic doctrine about pre-Eve Adam?

It's called Judaism and is pants-on-head fucking crazy

>>11858644
>Evangelical services
that's your problem

>>11858692
What are you then. Old-school Presbyterian?

>>11858726
new england congregationalist
evangelicalism is perhaps the greatest embarrassment to Protestantism since pentecostalism

>>11858258
>true faith
>Orthodoxy
laughing_nestorians.stele

Belloc
Chesterton
Mencken

>>11858748
If Nestorius was right, Christ would've had no agency.

What's the best Catholic church in NYC that does Latin Mass?

>>11858781
Most Cathedrals do Latin/Solemn mass

>>11858765
Explain why you think that?

>>11858742
Fag-ass "high-church" Protestantism, then. Terrific.

The Holy Koran

>>11858787
Because he's wouldn't've been of the same being as God and God would've simple taken control over him at the times that he acted Godly. The Christs of the Mound and the Cross would be different consciousnesses.

>>11858302
>Orthodoxy was always cucked

>>11858800
Christ was a regular person just like you and I, though. Christ spread the Word on Earth and acted in the name of God. His Godly acts were made possible through God's divine will. God didn't need to take control over Christ because Christ trusted in God entirely. The divine and human natures of Christ are not separate, nor are they separate consciousnesses. These two natures are as fundamentally interconnected as humanity's good and evil natures.

>>11858636
Mass isn't about you or the homilies, its for Christ

>>11858834
>Christ was a regular person just like you and I
No. You're not a Christian.

>>11858233
Don’t. The last thing Catholicism needs is more retarded protty converts

>>11858258
>hagia sophia still a mosque

>>11858945
What a fine, Christlike thing to say.

Denominational autism is a huge turn off as someone interested in Christianity

>>11858233
You were already retarded, don't blame /lit/

>>11858986

>>11858945
But I'm an atheist, not a Protestant

>>11858233
Really? Christcuckery in general has been a fucking poison to me for as long as I can remember.

I'm taking the Zen/Taoist pill and it suits me much better.

>>11858233
>>11858253
>hey let's wade around in shit purposefully designed to be as contagious as fucking possible, what could go wrong
>oh shit I've sprouted a bunch of fucking labels and now I have a twitter account
I don't know what god is but I have a hard time believing its favorite species is the memetic equivalent of HPV

>>11859005
pls m8 now that we are inundated with larping catholics the fedora has changed heads. the only sensible position is based humean agnosticism

>>11858950
It would've been ours again if it wasn't for the eternal anglo stepping in because >muh balance of power.

>>11858233
The Holy Spirit is working through you, anon. Read St. Augustine's Confessions and ignore the others in this thread, they will only pull you back into the abyss with their sectarian/atheist nonsense. God bless you, and stay strong. In His light you burn only upwards towards Him.

>>11859121
The Turks really did the place up, though.

>>11859121
>anglos and french step in against their Christian brothers in the crimean war to help t*rks
>now they are getting replaced by mudslimes in their own countries
pottery

>>11858825
>insert meme on how Orthos get fucked by muzzies throughout history, ask big borther to bail them out, and basically become kgb puppets

>>11859058
Same thing really. The current form of mainstream atheist and scientific dogma in anglo countries originates and is descended from protestantism

>>11858233
fell for it you fuckin retard LOL

>>11859121
>ours
you're american though?

>>11859165
>ask big brother to bail them out,
kek, when exactly does this happen? Russia were the ones to liberate the balkans from Ottoman rule. Throughout history both protestants and catholics almost always sided with the Ottomans in order to keep Russia in check. While the turks were rampaging throughout the balkans, Catholics were constantly warring with Protestants and ignoring Orthodox.

>basically become kgb puppets
nice ad hom, never any real arguments as usual

>>11859182
I'm serbian lmao, not everyone on this site is an amerishart

>>11859185
>nice ad hom, never any real arguments as usual
says the guy who used a meme as an argument, but that's assuming we were arguing. I thought it was a game of who can shit more on each other

>>11859185
the perfidious serb strikes once again

The brothers k
Honestly, religion is just a hobby these days. They are like furries, some are cool and most don’t rub it in, but there are always the small group of crazy people taking their hobby too far.

>>11859196
How is your church and pope succumbing to modernity and practically abandoning tradition a meme? Not to mention the abuse scandals and whatnot. These are valid arguments while calling the Russian Orthodox Church "kgb puppets" because they support their government (for a good reason) is not an argument.

>>11859196
>but that's assuming we were arguing. I thought it was a game of who can shit more on each other
4chan.jpg

>>11858233
And he attested that Joan, "being already surrounded by the flame, never ceased up to the end to proclaim and to profess in a high voice the holy name of Jesus, imploring and invoking without cease the aid of the saints of paradise, and again, which is more, while surrendering her spirit and letting her head fall, she uttered the name of Jesus as a sign that she was fervent in the faith of God."
...
One of the Englishmen, a soldier,who detested her exceptionally and had sworn that with his own hand he would bring a bundle of sticks to Joan's stake, at the moment he did it and heard Joan crying the name of Jesus in her last moment, stood struck with stupor as though in an ecstasy and had to be led to a tavern near the Old Marketplace, so that with the help of some drink he could regain his strength. ...this Englishmen confessed through the mouth of a friar who was also English that he had sinned gravely and that he repented what he had done against Joan, whom he know took to be a holy woman; for as it seemed to him, this Englishman had seen himself, at the moment that Joan gave up her spirit, a white dove emerge from her and take flight toward France.
...
Pierre Cusquel... had not been present "because my heart could not have stood it and would have suffered from pity for Joan," but he recounted: "I have heard it said that Master Jean Tressart, secretary to the King of England, coming back from Joan's execution, lamentably afflicted and moaning over what he had seen in that place, said: "We are all lost, for it is a good and holy person that was burned.' and that he thought 'that her soul was in the hands of God, and that, when she was in the midst of the flames, she had continuously called upon the name of the Lord Jesus."

One of the assessors, Jean Alespée... wept abundantly, according to the witnesses, and said: "I wish that my soul were where I believe this woman's soul is."

>>11859200
>Believing in Almighty God, Creator of the heavens, earth, even time itself, who calls us to repent for our sins and turn ourselves towards His light is the same as playing Magic: The Gathering

>>11859214
This is great. Thanks.

>>11859253
Yeah
It’s not like you NEED to believe in god, it’s just a neat thing to do. Many of the big religions don’t even force you to pray to him, they just say don’t be an ass and you’ll go to heaven.

>>11859185
>serbia
slavic turkey

>>11859306
>still no argument
sad!

>>11859267
ur welcome

>>11859207
lmao

>>11859385
whoopsie

>Judaism/Jesus express the importance of not fashioning idols
>Cross becomes an idol and Catholicism itself is chock full of idolatry

lol

>>11859394
The amount of strawmans in here are laughable. You are literally this meme here >>11858825
If the Catholic church even had to endure half the struggle that Orthodoxy did, it would've collapsed long ago. Perhaps the current situation reflects this. Soon enough you will have gay marriages and female bishops.
also
>calling Orthodox Church a Kremlin mouthpiece when the Pope is a literal EU globalist shill

Now go watch your infallible pope kiss some nigger feet why don't you.

>>11858933
And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God
(Luke 18:18-19)

>>11859427
de amount of strawmans in here is laufable! >>11858825

omg u r this meme here!!1!!11!
>>11859394


I know damn well those are strawmen. The difference between you and me is that you're doing what I'm doing—using retarded strawlike memes—, but you genuinely don't believe that you are, because you're a foolish hypocrite.

>>11859166
Australia is majority Catholic, as is Canada and New Zealand. Britain is the only Protestant Anglo nation.