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What books affected your views on religion?

>> No.2779190

Somewhat unrelated, but you just reminded me of a guy I knew who said the movie "Dogma" was 100% in league with his spiritual/religious thoughts.

>> No.2779216

Some secondary texts on Wittgenstein.
This short doc about it is good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LNTsle7UtM

The Gospel in Brief - Tolstoy
In Search of the Miraculous - Ouspensky (needs lots of salt)
50 Eastern Thinkers - Routledge Press

>> No.2779218
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2779218

Not one book, but a number of them together. There's so much bullshit on both sides of the argument that I've decided to just not give a fuck. There being a God or not is irrelevant to how I live my life and as for the after life, what will be, will be.

>> No.2779223

THE GOD DELUSION LIKE TOTAALY SHOWED THOSE PEDOS HOW IMPOSSIBLE GOD IS WHY CANT THEY JUST BE MORE LOGISTICAL BIOLOGY SCIENCE PRAGMATICS POSITIVSM AHHHHHHHHE DYDYDYDYDYDYDYD

>> No.2779228

>>2779218
>both sides
>implying two sides

Though I like your conclusion, it makes me sad that it appears that anyone's vision on religion is a response to another vision on religion, opposed to a direct reading of life.

>> No.2779232

The Golden Bough

>> No.2779233

>>2779228
I simplified for convenience.

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2779276

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

>> No.2779306

The bible. It showed me the right path.

>> No.2779417

Letters from Earth - Mark Twain

>> No.2779423

>>2779218
>implying you're not an atheist

>> No.2779425

>>2779216
Hi Hakas

>> No.2779431
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2779431

asoiaf

>> No.2779432

>implying this thread won't turn to shit even though it's not antagonistic to begin with

>> No.2779434

>>2779432
You're one post late.

>> No.2779450

none
it has remained the same

>> No.2779451

>>2779179
This post on this forum about magical invocation on the nature of the tetragrammaton.

>> No.2779467

Lossky's Orthodox Theology
Alter's The Art of Biblical Narrative & the Art of Biblical Poetry
Hanh's Living Buddha, Living Christ
Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

>> No.2779472

Dianetics

>> No.2779475

On the Concept of Anxiety
Fear and Trembling
Either/Or
The Sickness unto Death
The Gospel in Brief
Culture and Value
Against the Grain
Las bas
En route
La cathedrale
L'Oblat
De Profundis
Soul of Man Under Socialism

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>> No.2779654

ITT: im an atheist debate me xD

>> No.2779731

In the Shade of the Qur'an

>> No.2779740

Thus Spake Zarathustra.

>> No.2779752

All of them.

>> No.2779760

The Perennial Philosophy.
Showed me that every religion is fundamentally pointing towards the same something.

>> No.2779782

>>2779760
>Showed me that every religion is fundamentally pointing towards the same something.

C. S. Lewis wrote about that in "Mere Christianity."

And has anyone here read his Screwtape Letters? I love that book.

>> No.2779816

>>2779760
Just read a summary of it. I was never fond of syncretism nor am I fond of truth that unifies all religion. This is just the perennial's own cognitive dissonance

>> No.2779822

>>2779782
Yeah, I thought it was really good. It didn't make me any more religious, but it killed much of my incredulity toward those who are.

>> No.2779828

A couple of the books I had to read for freshman philosophy. Man, that class was the straw that broke the camel's back when it comes to my indifference towards god/religion.

>> No.2779850

>>2779475
>wasting your time reading Huysmans
>not reading Léon Bloy
ISHYGDDT

>> No.2781346

>>2779816
wrong and an idiot.

>> No.2781362

The bible
the Didache
Characters of the Inquisition
The Summa Theologica
The City of God
The Confession of St. Augustine
The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age

>> No.2781370

>>2779731
Interesting read, although his Is/Ought transition was very extreme

>> No.2781374

No books spring to mind here. Can't you just not have been raised poorly?

>> No.2781804

The Master and Margarita.

Written by a man, politically required to be antsiest, attempting to write a book subversively pro Jesus, but creates a nearly perfect love man not religion book by accident.

Shame Margarita is such a weak character though.