/lit/ - Literature

>>13143445
uh bro don't you pray for your friend when they ask you to? don't you pray for the Pope's intentions? don't you ask people to pray with you, and sometimes for you? these are intercessory actions. would you say your friend is an idol? or do you become an idol? no you don't. how does lit remember to breathe i swear

>>13143429
uh bro did you not listen. if you're kneeling with a saint its because you are kneeling with them before God. you're not kneeling or praying to the person. you're praying to God with your friend who is already in his kingdom.

>>13143385
uh bro please don't be weird this trip is older than you and im using it to field questions on this topic ONLY.

>>13143374
uh bro why don't you get yourself some middle knowledge. saints are not "us." and there is plenty of textual evidence for holding up martyrs and blessed and saints as praiseworthy and models of devotion to Christ, which is why they are raised as examples. you are praying they intercede on your behalf. you are not praying TO them. you are asking them for help, ideally because you identify with their story or try to live as they did. they are not demigods, they're adoring the throne of God in his kingdom just like you are. think of it like the fellowship you share with your mortal friends. you don't pray to your friend. you pray with them.

>>13143359
uh bro don't be weird

uh bro i should add between server crashes and recommend unto thee Father Calloway's Champions of the Rosary and also The Secret of the Rosary by St. Louis de Montfort. First is a history. second is a very short and comprehensive guide book. if you don't know what i meant by mysteries, or understand how the beads are used to count decades, or what a decade is, i highly recommend it.

>>13143306
uh bro God is the only being worthy of worship. saints and angels and them are intercessors. you pray to them to ask them to intercede on your behalf. before you go knocking on the concept of saints, recognize that the entire purpose of the Church is to produce saints. read the new testament. it is expressly stated that is the goal.

>>13143279
uh bro the rosary is interesting. reading a book right now about its history. it didn't just come into being the way it is, and the purpose was never to enter a trance or "no-mind" state like with a mantra. the beads are a counter, and an aid in contemplating the mysteries.

>>13143241
uh bro unequivocal no. how did you get that idea.

>>13143185
uh bro i wasnt trying to judge you. just the "churches" that cut out all the theology that they are supposedly built on. i say they are satanic because in stripping down the parts of the faith they didn't understand, they are now leading people away from understanding Christ, which is necessary for salvation. no one goes to the father except by him.

>>13143163
uh bro i'm seriously asking. anon says he's protestant but doesn't know about form prayers that have existed for a thousand years before the reformation. if he doesn't know about them, then whichever churches he has been attending are literally satanic and treating jesus like a genie

>>13142849
uh bro the hail mary is a prayer. the our father is a prayer. the apostles creed is a prayer.

do you not have these? i wouldn't be surprised.

>>12417626
uh bro what the hell happened to this board

when did endless shitposting become a paying job

uh bro what device are you posting from

uh bro you have to know how to read it first

>>12068863
uh bro that's a bad move muchacho

>>11673499
>>11673531
uh bro this is it exactly. Kierk, Job. Look up Jung's book Answer to Job. Also the Old Testament. Also also Burkert's Greek Religion is all the way up on Greek traditions of sacrifice and libation, some of which I can't help but think must have blended with Judaism's animal sacrifice at Temple and Jesus' own sacrifice and Eucharistic tradition after the last supper.

>>11673533
uh bro for real please stop, you're a pest and your posts have no value.

uh bro prove your thesis first

>>11653855
uh bro you should want to stop with your shit already

>>11228388
uh bro... thanks for caring my man

>>10913395
uh bro of course

>>10866484
uh bro are you in prison right now

>>10866378
uh bro if you were actually worthy of aristocratic airs you wouldn't have made this thread. be a good citizen and eat your middlebrow prole-fodder

>>10866332
uh bro I heard George R R Martin's Game of Thrones is pretty good. aristocracy all in that bitch. pleb hordes as they really are. knock yourself out guy

>>10864979
uh bro my diary desu