/lit/ - Literature

>>21900489
Naw naw naw. Convert to one of those neopaganist dealios. Much more interesting super powers and shit.

You wanna become like a non-practicing mafioso, you become catholick

I wish more cathocuck larpers cared about saints instead of the dooey ream my ass bible and latin mass.
>saints are like marvel heroes
Lmao, you’d fit right in

catholic thread? how come /lit/ never talks about mary mccarthy? apparently she used to be a big deal

Catholicism is cool because it has the most gods of any religion. Saints are all deities and are worshiped like idols.

>>21900489
>bait this bad

This thread is 1,000% AI generated but I'm here for it

>>21900747
>>21901082
It really is staggering to see the sheer intellectual brokenness of anti-Catholics - it's like watching tumors write.

Since this is a Catholicism thread I will take this opportunity.
Any reccs for Catholic mysticism. I'm quite intrigued by the Orthodox concept of Theosis. However, I feel that my Western mindset would make it more difficult for me to be Orthodox.

>>21901301
>I feel that my Western mindset would make it more difficult for me to be Orthodox
The orthodox church and the catholic church are 99% similar and the 1% dissimilarity is blown out of proportion because of relative deprivation.

>>21900489
Look into Hindusim. The gods and heroes are like anime characters.

>>21901287
>believe in a bunch of superhero saints
>accuse others of being anti-intellectual
"Saints" don't have any special power and god isn't real

>>21901287
I’m not anti, just against larpers who think they can wear the religion like a new skin suit.

>>21901321
>99% similar
Is this bait or am I retarded? I feel as if the emphasis on Aristotelian rationalism exemplified by Scholasticism in Catholicism versus the mystical emphasis on subjective experience of the saints in Orthodox theology is huge.

>>21901454
Until the 18th century or so, Orthodox seminarians and the like would study in the west. The “Catholic=Artistotlean=Scholastic=BAD, Orthodox=Platonist=Mystical=Good” attitude is largely confined to the anglosphere, and only in the last couple centuries. There are Orthodox scholastics like John Damascene and of course the Confession of Dositheus (which explicitly uses the word “Transubstantiation” to describe what happens with the Eucharist). There are plenty of Catholic mystics.

Unfortunately, a small but influential group of Orthodox scholars in the Anglophone west has attempted to radically divest Orthodoxy from any similarity with Catholicism, presumably to look better in the eyes of the American Protestant tradition which has always been suspicious of Catholicism.

t. Orthodox

>>21901643
Thank you, Anon, for your good response.

>>21901287
Ok larper