/lit/ - Literature

>>16559565
naw Opus Dei is pretty solid. thanks 4 ur concern though

For >>15440263, it's the dicksucking.

>Why yes I became religious just because it became the contrarian thing to be in the west, how could you tell?

>>13743423
second statement does not follow the first. God is good. Genesis is very explicit about this, and Aristotle, Plato, and the scholastics bore this out. we contemplate his goodness even as we suffer. to cast blame is absolutely the wrong move. rather, seek to do good.

>>13598880
This is a world of sin and should not be expected to be enjoyed.
Even then, that doesn't mean even this life has to be miserable, and it can be seen for what it is. It can provide an authentic enjoyment although of an inferior order.

GOD BLESS JANITORIAL STAFF AND BLESSED BE ALL CHRISTIANS. And FUCK, apostates, heretics, blasphemers, heathens and atheists and GOD DAMN all cumbrains to hell

>>13317578

Those looking for a sign will not get one.
Enjoy hell, heretic.

>>13255211
>That isn't an example of what is being referred to when Mary is said to "intercede" for us.
Of course it is. If you read the verse, it is her salutation that makes the baby leap from her womb. She is the one acting as intercessor for the graces
>when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
>when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary,
>For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
>For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation
This is an example of Mary being mediatrix of graces.
>Did I dispute this?
Lol don't try to play dumb, anon-kun
>He's literally inside of her body. You're reading so much into this it's absurd.
I am literally reading the Bible, while you are reading some dude telling you how to read a verse that is incredibly simple and (incredibly enough) aligns perfectly with Catholic theology when read in its simple unmitigated words.
>That isn't present in the text.
>43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
>the mother of my Lord
>the mother of my Lord
>the mother of my Lord
> mother of my Lord
>mother
>of
>my
>Lord

>>13157001
You are bumping a Catholic thread, so if anything, you are not gaining sin points. Sorry to tell you anon.

>>13143445
Protestants can't understand this concept since there wouldn't even be any people holy enough to be saints in the protestant "religion" anyways.

>>13108886

>>12874980
>>12877421
Protestants are not Christians.
Nietzsche was Nietzsche because his father was a protestant minister. Protestantism is moral relativism and naturally leads to Nihilism.

>>12860485
/thread. Satan inverts the truth; he peddles his toxic wares in the garments of something alluring. All too often, that sin, that apple he is offering seems to have no catch to it. In fact, we can even rationalize it as good. How much more so could he use the image of Christ, reduce him to just a mere name and feel good concept just to lead others to sin? Go ahead! Turn God's Grace into an excuse for sin. The wiles of the devil are rooted in deceit. He does not work in the light, the truth. The idea he would have a thesis statement, a bible of his own advertising "Hey I'm the devil and I'm fucking evil" like OP is laughable; surely these works are of wicked men but this is not the devil's strategy, nor his religion, but more so a fan club. He works in the shadows with trickery, and offers that apple to this very day to the unguarded.

Those who LARP here as radical catholic traditionalists, provided they're decent people who actually hold affinity toward their statements, should enter seminary. All the fun of shit posting on /lit/ but in real life. I say better to have someone lacking in faith that wants to restore the Church to her historical glory, better to have megalomaniacal aspirations for the papacy than be some tepid lukewarm catholic pressured into this position by family or degenerate sexual inclinations. Make no mistake, we'll make the Vatican great again. Stop at nothing. Bring the inquisition back. Resolutely denounce Protestantism as damnable heresy once and for all. Latin Mass only. Expand the Papal State to her former territorial glory. The possibilities are limitless. Now's the time to join, heads are rolling in scandal and promotions will be in order in another decade or less.

And sin will no longer be forgiven at will. I don't expect any applause from you. There will be no expressions of thanks in this chapel. None from me and none from you. Courtesy and good manners are not the business of men of God. What I do expect... is that you will do what I have told you to do. There is nothing outside your obedience to God. Nothing except Hell. A Hell you may know nothing about... but I do. Because I've built it, right behind that door: Hell. These past few days, I've had to build Hell for you, that's why I've come to you belatedly. I know you will obey, because you've already figured out that this pope isn't afraid to lose the faithful if they're been even slightly unfaithful, and that means this Pope does not negotiate. On anything or with anyone. And this Pope cannot be blackmailed! From this day forth, the word "compromise", has been banished from the vocabulary. I've just deleted it. When Jesus willingly mounted the cross, he was not making compromises. And neither am I. Amen.

>>12640746
>If you are a Catholic, you should want total and absolute destruction of the masons. They should be dragged out to the street, put on racks and stretched to death. FUCK masons and God DAMn them to hell.
Based, and dare I say, redpilled?

>"He was sent by God the Father to save us above all from the evil deeply rooted in man and in history: the evil of separation from God, the prideful presumption of being self-sufficient, of trying to compete with God and to take his place, to decide what is good and evil, to be the master of life and death (cf. Gen 3:1-7). This is the great evil, the great sin, from which we human beings cannot save ourselves unless we rely on God’s help, unless we cry out to him: “Veni ad salvandum nos! – Come to save us!”"
-Pope Benedict XVI

>>12591325
Because they are Aryans and not Christians.

>>12518332
You guys only reject original sin and purgatory because the Catholic Church believes in them
>no original sin
So God made us imperfect, even though we are made in His image? You're implying there was some mistake made when he created humans that led to this "nature" of ours?
>le God's energies meme
Polytheistic heresy
>Hell is not separation from God
Except it literally is, thats the whole point of Hell, you heretics.
>reject the idea that dogma develops
That is protestant tier thinking and incorrect anyway because you guys did develop dogma after the schism. The Church Fathers believed in original sin, purgatory, and Hell being separation from God. Not any "energy and essence" garbage.
>reject Purgatory
literally only because Catholics believe in purgatory.

I can tell you're a LARPing convert. Face it, your sect is just the result of political bickering from a bunch of eastern churches because they didn't want to submit to the Bishop of Rome. That's why all your churches are ethno-centric and schism with each other over nationalist differences. And all the mystic mumbo jumbo you guys throw in there just attracts the western man searching for spiritual meaning, just like every other eastern religion. You guys are basically buddhism for christians.

I have never masturbated.

>>12394532

ITT: post signs that you're a pseud

I'll start

>actually fell for the start with the Greeks meme
>thinks infinite jest is anything else besides hipster garbage
>has ever stopped reading a book halfway through
>doesn't read at least 100 pages a day
>nihilistic/absurdist/atheist or any other edgy philosophy

Anything else I'm missing!

>>12388756
Join seminary and become a priest.
Aspire to the papacy.
Easiest path to power. Slim but much more realistic than becoming president. No better time than now too considering that heads will be rolling because of the abuse scandal.
>>12388784
Unironically this.