/lit/ - Literature

>>17169577
The truth is being made manifest to you. It's no coincidence that all of the smartest men who have lived since the death of Christ have been Christians. His glory can be seen everywhere, and is apparent to those who seek Him out.

>>17169577
It's the sublime. The same thing would have happened if you took the /out/pill. You should still take the /out/pill.

>>17169577
>Did you also have this
No.

>>17169976
this, also read wordsworth

>did you also have this
No. If anything, I became even more atheistic after getting into literature. I’ve also gotten a bit more tolerant and understanding of religiosity, though.

>>17169577
C.S. Lewis wrote a book about this: Surprised by Joy.

>>17169609
Speaking like a cultist here
>>17169976
This

>>17170073
>>>r/reddit/atheism
you'll be more at home there

>>17169577
I had this, and then I started reading the bible, now I don’t have the desire for god anymore. I still read theology because it’s interesting and culturally important, but Im teetering on the edge of simply becoming culturally religious.

>>17169577
>>17169609
>>17170088
Based disingenous LARPers

>>17170088
I don’t have to be from Reddit to recognize someone talking like a missionary anon, and I am not lacking in spirituality, and I still practice a religion, thought it is one of no faith and full conviction and geared towards the human condition, not the hereafter. I am only against overbearing missionaries and cultists.

>>17169577
>What is happening to me
Typical lack of a strong self, you allowed anonymous and the authors you’ve read to mold you in their own image. Snap out of it.

>>17169577
The books brainwashed you into acquiring a new cope mechanism of death, the one used by 99% of the human population

>>17170125
>you into acquiring a new cope mechanism of death
read the case studies by researchers Ian Stevenson and Jim Tucker at Virginia University .on childhood memories

>>17170114
>a religion of no faith and geared towards the human condition
wow a highly advanced bugman. you will be useful in leading the other bugmen

>>17169577
THERE IS NO GOD

>>17170298
That's one of the dumbest quotes I've read in my entire life

>>17170189
Is this going to be one of those ''Muh children that remember past lives'' non-sense?

>>17170306
No it isn’t.

>>17170308
Yup.

>>17170306
>That's one of the dumbest quotes I've read in my entire life

Brainwashed cuck

>>17169577
I feel the same OP

>>17170312
>>17170319
>spending eternity with a being of pure light who loved you enough to give you life is the same as living under a dictator in NK

>>17170125
It has nothing to do with death.

>>17170298
Hitchens was a sophist.

>>17170327
>a being of pure light who loved you enough to give you life
Only if you ignore that they created evil and send those who don't believe to undergo fiery torment for an eternity

>>17170347
christian apologists are the biggest sophists

>>17170349
>Created evil
Except that God did not create evil, because evil doesn't exist, just as darkness doesn't. There is only an absence of God, or of light.

>>17170308
Not him, but I looked up a quick video. It is about children who remember past lives but with a scientific approach compared to most. They count cases where the kid can recount their former life without possibly being fed the information, so the kid has to remember their former name or address and specific details which match a real person who died for the researchers to consider the case a good one. It seems the older guy who started the research focused mostly on children who could do that and who were also born with birth defects or birth marks which matched their account of their death.
The video also pointed out the children which they research are basically never remembering a famous life, usually remember someone who recently died, and normally start it around 2 and stop it around 7. The last part is most interesting to me, because most cultures set 7 as the age someone becomes a person, and cultures that believe in reincarnation or possession normally think the ghosts of dead people or reincarnated souls are more attracted to that age range.
It's more interesting than the usual woo about the subject, even if you're not convinced.

>>17170363
Yet god allows that "absence" to subsist. Keep licking those boots.

>>17170359
I’m an atheist. Idk why apologists even bother with proofs for God’s existence. Even more cringe than apologists are anti-theists though.

>>17170327
>Why yes, I have never read the OT
The dumbest and weakest point is the Christians polytheism. They can’t count.

>>17169577
Feeling similar over the past few days. A strange spiritual experience. Considering going into RCIA.

>>17170377
>Christians polytheism
What

>>17170377
I've read the OT as well as commentary on it plenty. Your ignorance and lack of understanding is not a solid argument

read The denial of death by Becker