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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 4:40:37 PM No.24487424
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What is the best book if I want to regain my faith back?
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 4:44:05 PM No.24487433
>>24487424 (OP)
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 4:46:40 PM No.24487437
>>24487424 (OP)
If you read only one book other than the Bible and the Catechism, I recommend it be the Divine Comedy. The phrases "life changing" and "masterpiece" get thrown around a lot, but I have never in my life read something so spiritually powerful as Dante's verse, with the possible exception of the Scriptures.
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 4:47:36 PM No.24487440
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>>24487424 (OP)
You can't
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 5:03:36 PM No.24487469
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>>24487433
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 7:05:44 PM No.24487745
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>>24487424 (OP)
Best I can do is Ralph Waldo Emerson and maybe a little vaguely mystical agnostic Buddhism. Okay, we have a deal?
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 7:40:19 PM No.24487813
>>24487424 (OP)
Ask the daughter of Brock Lesnar to take any heavy hard-cover book and smash it with full force onto the back of your skull. Repeat that step until you're able to speak to God.
You're welcome.
Jokes aside, I doubt that an Agnostic can be turned into a true believer as their standpoint is the result of rational thought. My parents dragged me to all kinds of religious hokum events but they couldn't make me believe because the things they said made no fucking sense. I guess they were very frustrated that they failed to convince a 6yo to adapt their retarded religion but that's not my problem.
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 7:51:21 PM No.24487830
>>24487813
It depends on whether you're exposed to the actual rational side of religious thought, or the "I was raised in this, therefore it's true, therefore my children must be raised in it." I think the decline of membership in Christianity is specifically due to the fact that we're out here with personal testimony and hokey boomer hymns, when we've got two millennia worth of beautiful artwork, sophisticated theology, music, and writing that we're effectively just sitting on.
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 8:01:24 PM No.24487847
>>24487830
I may be agnostic but I do agree with almost everything religious people believe in like treating people like I want to be treated and respecting peoples property, etc. I think the Bible was something like a handbook of life for the people of yesteryear to help them to navigate life but some of the advice is dated and gets misused in modern society. For example: There was some rule that males shouldn't sit were a woman sat because she is/was unclean and I'm pretty sure we already fixed this issue with personal hygiene products and I'm sure there are a lot of other rules that need to be updated / revised to make sense today. I really wish I could believe but I just can't make me do it. Or at least I don't know how I can make myself believe. Sure, I could pretend that I do but that's not real and I don't have time to waste on fake stuff. I've enjoyed the religious themes in KCD2, especially the music. Some even moved me to tears for whatever reason.
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 9:09:22 PM No.24488006
>>24487424 (OP)
Why would you want to?
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 9:25:07 PM No.24488052
>>24487424 (OP)
It depends. There's a good book by Brant Pitre called The Case for Jesus which goes into stuff like the genre of the Gospels, the authorship of the Gospels, the prophecies in the OT, etc, the rationality of believing in the resurrection of Jesus that is pretty good. Pitre's a Catholic.

I would also recommend some lives of the saints to see the Gospel in action as well. Like St. Thérèse of Lisieux or St. Francis of Assisi, etc
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 9:58:08 PM No.24488149
>>24487424 (OP)
The world has changed too much for old illusions to return. Once people have seen through a belief system—whether religion, nationalism, or the myths of progress—they can’t unsee it. Even if they try to revive tradition, it feels artificial, because they now recognize it as something constructed, not something absolute. This is why modern attempts at religious or cultural revival feel forced, hollow, and self-conscious. The comfort of the past was based on not knowing—people believed because the world around them reinforced their beliefs as unquestionable truth. But once an illusion is shattered, it loses its power. No matter how much people long for the simplicity of faith, authority, or collective identity, the modern mind is too aware of contradictions, alternatives, and the sheer complexity of reality to return to blind belief.

This collapse of illusion is painful, but it’s necessary. People are being forced to face reality without the comforting myths that once structured human life. For many, this creates despair, nihilism, or reactionary attempts to reconstruct the past. But the only real way forward is transcendence—going beyond the need for illusion rather than trying to resurrect it. Instead of clinging to outdated belief systems or sinking into nihilism, individuals must develop a deeper, self-sustained sense of meaning—one that doesn’t depend on external myths. This is the true test of the modern era: whether people can evolve beyond illusions without falling into hopelessness. Most will struggle with this transition, but for those who succeed, a new kind of existence is possible—one based on clarity, direct experience, and inner stability, rather than on borrowed fantasies.
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 11:59:07 PM No.24488449
The Qur'an, of course:

2. This is the Book in which there is no doubt, a guide for the righteous.

3. Those who believe in the unseen, and perform the prayers, and give from what We have provided for them.

4. And those who believe in what was revealed to you, and in what was revealed before you, and are certain of the Hereafter.

5. These are upon guidance from their Lord. These are the successful.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 3:40:35 AM No.24488872
>>24488149
This entire argument is just a form of projection.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:08:13 AM No.24488922
>>24488149
It's really only the hoi polloi who will fall into despair but then they are not the ones likely to suffer religious disillusionment either. The intellectual elites have known how to respond for ages already--through some "immortality project" of their own.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:14:22 AM No.24488931
>>24487424 (OP)
You have to actually encounter God. The quickest way is to read the Gospels.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:29:06 AM No.24488956
>>24488931
do i need to read them out loud on my bathroom with my lights off and he'll appear or how does it work?
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:35:23 AM No.24488967
>>24487424 (OP)
crime statistics
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:43:21 AM No.24488975
>>24488967
what is the best way to read these
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:44:33 AM No.24488979
>>24488149
>This is the true test of the modern era: whether people can evolve beyond illusions without falling into hopelessness.
Any book recommendations for helping with this or other advice?
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:49:24 AM No.24488986
>>24487424 (OP)
Besides the Bible itself?
Dostoevsky
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:51:09 AM No.24488990
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>>24487424 (OP)

If you're looking for a non-denominational, unspecific God: https://braindrippings.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-life-maybe
If you will only accept the Christian God: https://braindrippings.substack.com/p/yeshuas-basilisk
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:52:14 AM No.24488993
>>24487433

Aquinas is inadmissible, he would not pass a physique check.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:59:44 AM No.24489009
>>24487469
Athests = golems of jews.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:07:23 AM No.24489021
>>24487424 (OP)
Gospel according to John.
>John 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

Also, you didn't have it if you lost it, since you can't lose it as the witness of God is greater than the witness of men (I. John 5) and you'll be guided into all truth (John 16:13) and you're sealed with the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption (II. Corinthians 1:22, Ephesians 4:30) if you truly believed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CeBoSQsBR0
https://files.catbox.moe/4hvdqp.mp4

That's why there's no such thing as an "ex-Christian" if you define "Christian" as someone who's actually saved; but since Catholics want to be called Christian these days despite mass murdering them in the past for the Jews, and even gaytheist retards claim they can be "Christian", the term basically means nothing now.
>Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:11:12 AM No.24489027
>>24487433
>Summa Theologica
>>24487437
>and the Catechism
Might as well be drinking poison. At least that's what those are spiritually compare to the pure water of the Word of God.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:12:24 AM No.24489030
>>24489027
They like stinky feet. Catholics are spiritual footfags.
https://www.soulwinning.info/sermons/stinking_feet.mp3
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:12:31 AM No.24489031
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:13:30 AM No.24489032
>24489031
Here come the reprobate golem of the jews to spam their ebin reddit may mays.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:14:46 AM No.24489033
>>24489032

>Hurp durp de nurp rebbit durp nurp joooos
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:15:36 AM No.24489035
>>24488931
>>24488956
It's not an "encounter" it's just believing the gospel. Once you believe, you're saved and sealed. Most people believe in a self-righteous works-based gospel, they haven't believed the gospel, they're making God a liar, and they don't believe that eternal life is in God's Son, but in their own works. See: 1 John 5:10-13 and Matthew 7:21-23, see also John 6:39-40.

And since salvation is so easy, that's why the jews and freemasons force the atheist creation myths of evolutionism and the big bang, all the midwits think they're 2smert4bible because they actually think their ancestors were monkeys and fish and literally everything came from literally nothing despite never being proven and that their creation myth violates all the laws of science (like nothing exploding into everything, how retarded does one have to be to believe that?).
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:16:39 AM No.24489037
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>>24489033
>leave the talmud pharisee jewish supremacists alone!!1!
Golem
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:18:06 AM No.24489039
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>>24489037


Now you
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:19:09 AM No.24489041
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:20:10 AM No.24489043
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:21:10 AM No.24489045
>>24489043
kek what
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:21:18 AM No.24489046
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:22:20 AM No.24489048
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:23:35 AM No.24489051
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:25:38 AM No.24489055
>>24489045

Ask ChatGPT if it's unclear to you
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:25:42 AM No.24489056
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>>24489045
It's the resident fedora schizo.

He got triggered by a thread about the true God (he never gets triggered like this by Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, etc because they're all of the world and the world loves his own) and now he's going to spam it to death.
>John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1750336946239109.webm

Also, Revelation was written before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD.

>>24489041
You don't understand the scientific method.

Also funny how gaytheists think they're smart for trying to interpret the bible from their self-refuting materialist worldview that's indoctrinated into them by the judeo-masonic government and media. They read about some miracle God did, then say it couldn't happen because they remove God from the equation. Basically only revealing their own retardation. And they don't even realize the countless miracles that are part of their creation myth or the baseless and unproven assumptions they have even in that pic.

Atheism really does require willing ignorance, or maybe just extremely low IQ and brain damage.

>>24489051
Your state-funded atheist creation myths are unfalsifiable though, hypocrite.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:26:44 AM No.24489057
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>>24489055
>the fedora schizo relegates his thinking to chatbots trained on reddit and twatter posts
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:29:14 AM No.24489059
>>24489057
>>24489056

UH OH, someone's got a case of the GRUMPY DUMPIES :'(
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:32:50 AM No.24489060
Atheists always claim to be intellectual and rational, but what they actually say is rarely intellectual but rather anti-intellectual and they don't even pretend to address anyone's points. In fact, they're usually just acting like brat kids who were never disciplined by their parents.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:34:49 AM No.24489063
>>24489059
Global rule 2.

>>24489060
It's just a shame the sticky isn't enforced.
>Please take the time to read what others have written, and try to make thoughtful, well-written posts of your own.

Same way /his/ got destroyed, that sticky wasn't enforced against all the atheist shitposting and babytalk posts.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:48:20 AM No.24489077
>>24487424 (OP)
Bhagavad Gita
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:49:21 AM No.24489080
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>>24489009
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 6:00:05 AM No.24489093
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 6:28:21 AM No.24489125
>>24489035
Works are evidence of salvation. Once saved always saved is unbiblical. Your ilk will be spat out on the day of judgement for being lukewarm.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 8:43:51 AM No.24489322
>>24487424 (OP)
typology is interesting