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Have you considered that maybe these people are exactly as you've described, but that they've become weary with the life they currently lead and may be curious about learning more about Christianity, and other systems of belief? There are a lot of jaded Millennials and Zoomers out there looking for meaning in life.

You’re right.
My new ideology is Vedic transcendental burgerpunk

>>13317578
They won't actually do that because they're lazy underachievers who post on 4chan.

>>13317578
Based

>>13317568
I'm not a Christfag but I don't see why it's so hard to believe that there'd be real christians here. The age of 4chan Christlarping has passed and there's probably just more veritable converts around now.

>>13317568
I actually went to church twice on Sunday, I'll have you know

>>13317770
Most of them will do exactly what you say, but not ALL of them will. To quote Christ Himself: "Many are called, but few are chosen."

>>13317866
Thank you for sharing these holy words, Anon. God bless you, senpai

>>13317568
to out-edge the edgelords.

>>13317830
Twice? What for double-eucharist?

>>13317568
I've never even been to a church. I'm curious about it but I just can't bring myself to take it seriously.

>>13317568
I went to youth church last week bro, I know what I’m talking about

>>13317568
I don't need to LARP as a Christian, I'm a Jew. Christians LARP as me even if they pretend otherwise even to themselves.

>>13317977
you get your faith FROM good works, you dont get good works FROM faith. A proddy might not tell you different, but hes wrong

>>13317991
> catholicism
No thanks. I may be a lolicon but I want nothing to do with actual paedophiles.

>>13317997
even though its a small amount?

>>13318004
Memeing aside I can't ignore the long history of the catholic church which demonstrates that they are first and foremost a political organization that was deeply intertwined with secular authorities and had no qualms about acting in unchristian ways to maintain and expand its earthly power.

>>13318034
I do agree. Ever since around the 8th century they have been secular and power hungry imo. I will say however I do love my local catholic church. Outside of my parish tho i couldnt care less.

>>13318049
> Outside of my parish tho i couldnt care less
But the Church is a hierarchy with the Vatican at the centre. From what i understand that's not just some throwaway feature there for practical reasons but a pretty significant part of Catholic doctrine.

>>13317967
I went to my own and visited a black Baptist church, which was great fun.

>>13318077
Who cares lol?

Christians are really the only major religion that claims a complete monopoly over truth and divinity.
All other religions are at least tolerant of other beliefs, even Islam believes there are more paths than the quaran to reach god. But Christianity is literally you follow our method of Jesus Christ or you go straight to Hell. There’s no room for playing, no room for wrong think, no room for questioning. Your way of seing god is wrong, our way of seeing god is right and because you disagree you’re gonna be punished eternally for it.
This believe pulls in a lot of weak minded individuals who hear this and run to the shelter of Christianity out of fear. They don’t necessarily believe this idea but they don’t want to deal with the possibility of being wrong about it so the take the safest option.

Christianity is like a special cult where it’s the whole world against you, look at /pol/ or religious youtubers it’s always some battle of Christians vs the rest of the world. Everyone is always deceived and only the flock are those who know the way.
Basically it attracts a lot of the 4chan user type, edgy solipsists who need reality to be some grand opera where they are lead members of the show.
I love Christ and his teachings but could never consider myself a Christian

>>13318106
This post is so baldly mendacious I have to assume youre Jewish

>>13318126
Refute it

>>13318106
That’s modern internet Christianity

>>13318106
Well that's the whole point of Christianity.
>He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. (Matt. 12:30)
The devil doesn't care what philosophy you choose; Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, atheist, he can tempt you all the same. Only Christ cares enough to command you to follow him.

>>13318106
Uh, Anon, that's kind of the point, isn't it?

All these other religions' ability to coexist with each other seems like a weakness, not a strength. It's ultimately a betrayal of their claim to be the preferred way to salvation. But Christianity continues to maintain that everyone who doesn't believe in Jesus is doomed. Because this is true. Because Christians really believe that their way is the Truth.

>>13318106
Thanks I’m putting this in my copypasta folder

>>13318352
>Worshipping a supreme god who loves all is a weakness
I really don’t like your religion

>>13318352
Maybe you should realize it’s time to move beyond religion instead of doubling down on your tribalism

>>13318092
If there's one thing I'd like to take very seriously then it's religion. What's it even for if you're not supposed to take it seriously?

>>13317578

>>13317568
It's not all bad. "The Holy Bible" replies are a bit less embarrassing than "My diary desu"

>>13318663
Yes, but is it "My diary desu" or "My diary T B H"? The world may never know

>>13317568
>Implying I'm not 30 years old and a devout and practicing Catholic.
I don't need to LARP like the faggots here do.

>>13318395
Anon, Anon, if you had truly experienced Christianity you would't say this. There is NOTHING like the true experience of Christianity. It's a thing worth dying over, a thing worth sacrificing your life over. Jesus Christ is the greatest thing you could ever hope to encounter in this life. Jesus is amazing! And we encounter Him every day we choose, through the Sacraments that His Church offers every single day. We double down on Christ because there's nothing like Him in this world or the next. My God, Christ is incredible. If you have sought something all your life, I promise you you will find it in Christ. I promise you, Christ is the end goal of everything you have sought. You should not be afraid to embrace Christ as the summit of all your desires.

>>13317568
>Why does /lit/ LARP as Christians?
>LARP
Cope m0ar

>>13317578

I like to encourage them because they back me up in arguments. The atheists here are only such out of DUDE MASTURBATE DUDE I WANT TO WATCH CARTOONS DUDE I WANT TO LEAD A STUPID HEDONISTIC DISTRACTION FILLED LIFE. Christians might be dead wrong but at least they try to lead a better life. Even if they die living a lie, they've lived a better life than the porn addict.

>>13318727
If you love him so much why don't you suck his dick?

>>13317568
I've never been to church and Gospel of Thomas fuckers.

>>13317568
Because /lit/ is mostly 14 year olds who now think christianity is edgy and contrarian

>>13318106
>Quran says there are more than one ways to God
Yeah but you have to go through hell first. And this isn't a universal belief.

>>13317568

>>13318106
The idea that "Christianity" is a monolith is pretty redundant, especially when such a big part of the acceptance of or coexistence with other faiths depends on the particular church and varies from denomination to denomination. Not to mention the incalculable number of cultural christians who, while not necessarily identifying with the congregation, still (consciously or unconsciously) act according to the teachings of Christ. It's worth looking into the idea of post-modern theology to help explain why the current pope is putting forward a far more tolerant form of Christianity. God dies on the cross through the mortality of his own son, but what lives on as His afterlife is the holy spirit of community. Therefore its less a question of following Christ's teachings to the line, than it is about engaging in the spirit of community which Christ leaves to us in his absence

>The last time you went to church was Sunday school when you were 7 years old. Stop being contrarians.
How is it so hard to believe that people go to Church? You are just baiting at this point.

>>13317991
Go read the book of James

>>13317997
Fun fact, a child is just as likely (if not more) to be molested by a public school teacher as a priest

>>13318106
>Denying Christ
>I love his teachings
I hope that's what's played over and over again through especially hellish phonic cannons affixed to your eternally damned skull every morning, or on the hour, however Hell does time for you people. If you had any sense of Christianity, any barely nascent overview of its patterns, its traditions, its varieties of practice, the multitudes it has persuaded and won over by highly compelling ideas, you would not have made that post. I think you live and type in a state of profound poverty and it has begun rotting you to the point you no longer sense error because you have become it. You relish it as a tanager in a bath. Jesus Christ spoke in profound parables and was often mysterious, leaving you the Christian to discover your Agape and deduce your course from that. This is not to say there were not clear blockages of bad human behaviors professed by Christ, who notably demonstrated prostitutes and tax collectors were very much in his flock, just as he also fashioned a whip from cords and drove all the crass and profane predators out of a place intended for sacred worship. Christ demonstrated a level of moral development that remains fascinating to merely think through as an exercise, let alone devotionally. No one "runs to Christianity out of fear" nor is anyone credible who supposes there's even a detectable trait we could term "weak minded," the very notion serving as a giant blinking klaxon above your post announcing to everyone the scant limits of your cognition, the excruciatingly low ceiling of your imagination. What a thing to be so dumb! I should think you fully encompass your mind's capacity by a single sip of sugary soda, a neural hollow given over to odiousness and wretchedness. Returning to Christ, he lived and spoke of so many grand, inspiring principles, that people in many languages find his ideas impossible to shake. Through Christ you arrive at truths that become unassailable, unimpeachable insights into being not only a human being and acknowledging our suffering but also what we ought to do, even what we should tell ourselves in our worst moments. Most importantly, and you left this out curiously, having announced to everyone you're an expert on Christianity, but the Christian notion of forgiveness serves a broader and, you'll love this I'm sure, utilitarian function, serving to repair people, families and communities that might otherwise spiral into destructive patterns. Of all Christ's teachings and truth and wit, the notion of forgiving is a powerful one. I do not think it applies to you, rentboy. You speak ill of ideas you do not even fathom. You are not even wrong. You are a waste.

I literally went to church last week

The quintessential atheist everyone. Their entire little cult is built around intellectualism, so whenever it becomes apparent someone intelligent from history was religious, they have to cope and say “t-they probably weren’t!” or some other shit. Now seeing as how the intellectual giants that are theists are dabbing all over them on here, they have to cope and tell themselves we are pretending. Pathetic!

I mean, I doubt alot but you're being kinda rude ^_^

>>13317568
>contrarians
I've got some bad news for you anon.

>>13319847
>my brand
Social media was a terrible mistake.

>>13319470
I've never liked that act of contrition because it feels like a lie. I know I'm going to sin again. I may not like it, but I know I will. So why do I say that I'll sin no more?

>>13317568
I do though

internet catholic larpers are worse than the actual baby raping catholics.

>>13317568
The same reason /b/ rants about how sexually unstable black people are and then defile roastie pictures with cock tributes. Makes them feel superior but really they're still bottom of the pile scum, the only difference being they're delusional about it.

>>13319685
How could you possibly write so much but say absolutely nothing

>>13318727
Same exact things is claimed about Krishna, allah, Ongkar.
Who’s right?
Quite a pointless thing to realize when you see them as all the same

>>13319847
Hey, this girl had a sex tape of her's leaked didn't she?

>>13317568
I'm a protestant, I do what I want.

>>13317770
caught the boomer posting on 4chan

i went to the cathedral for morning mass a few weeks ago, and i try and reas the lectionary daily. I'm a preacher's kid, grew up reading proverbs and psalms every night before bed. The bibles wisdom and the community of faith I have found have helped immensly.

>Shout out to papist boys for serving and providing worldwide.
>Shout out to my mainline bois.
>Shout out to my African Anglicans who keep the communion together when burgers get wild.
>shout out to anti-zionist Jews and non-wahabbist Muslims who keep chaos at the gates.

I got love for everybody.

>>13321230
That's pretty cringe but also pretty wholesome.

>>13321236
I know. I'm still working on learning the Anglican lore. Need to make some memes as well.

>>13320577
If it feels like a lie, it is because you are lying when you say it. Next time you say it, do not consider it a lie. Before you go to confession, contemplate what it would mean for you to not sin again. It is not about being perfect yet, but about improving. It is always possible that you never sin again. Wouldn't that be wonderful? If there were even a hope of that happening, would you drag your feet, or would you run to the arms of God? With God, all things are possible, so I tell you don't turn away, but run to him as soon as you are able.

>>13321236
The only differences between cringe and wholesomeness are sincerity and self-awareness.

>>13319847
> dyed blonde hair
> that tan
> that outfit
She looks like a slut.

>>13317568
You can believe in Christ without having to buy into a denomination.
There is enough ambiguity and room for interpretation in the New Testament. And we don't even have to get into the fact that you could call Christ your Lord & savior without e.g. accepting the Pauline epistles or Revelations as canon. Instead why not buy into some more mystic & esoteric texts? Hell, why not take Dante, Milton & Blake to be divinely inspired?

>>13322243
I really hope no one takes Dante as anything more that a fan fic

>>13317568
jesus wasnt hanging out with the pharisees, he was at the well with the whores.

They sense that the world is mad, but they don't understand why. They're not aware that this madness can only be transcended with real revolutionary practice, so they settle for transcending it in their heads. If that means that they're reading Augustine, Aquinas, or even someone like Girard then that's fine, it's not really a waste of time. The atheist "rationalist" types are much worse, and so are leftists.

>>13318919
What is the truth sir? I'm always looking for the truth, and you seem very confident. I'm curious.

>>13317770
>everyone is a loser because i am a loser

>>13317568
I go whenever i can.
I am poor, yes and it is far away, but it is always great time,
Sometimes I even get a ride if i am not too much of an autist to ask someone to get me there.
Read bible every day and pray before every meal.
Why?

>>13322953
Cuz ur gay?

>>13322351
this is the perfect metaphor