Okay, fellas, it's time to come clean. What women are to men intellectually non-Catholics are to Catholics. If atheist, sometimes their total neglect of the Faith leads them to some Truth, but invariably they end up in some cul de sac of self-conceit and delusion. Agnostics write like every sentence is its own approximation of confusion. Protestants write like a hollow drum, beating a death march to nowhere and going fast. Jews contradict every central ethic they seem to hold genuinely. Muslims write like maniacs who forget the rules of syntax but yet must use grammar because of some unknowable curse of reality. Seculars write like dried out corpses that got one too many tattoos of medical terms on their rib-cage. The prose of Proust, Chateubriand, Bloy, O'Connor, Theroux, and Shakespeare, to name a few, have been kissed by a grace in a way that talent can neither immitate nor can practice and talent attain. Your faith determines your prose--no exceptions.
>>24563829 (OP)You need to spend less time on Twitter.
>>24563829 (OP)I am Orthodox. Best writers, best poets.
Shakespeare was not a catholic
Why do papists love stealing protestant writers?
>>24563829 (OP)Luther is widely considered one of the greatest prose and hymn writers in the German language.
>>24563829 (OP)>What women are to men intellectually non-Catholics are to Catholics.Yes anon, I'm sure you're more intelligent than Bach and Kierkegaard.
>>24563829 (OP)Interesting point, and I think I agree with a lot of this sentiment. Now, I'm not extremely familiar with literature, as music is my main field, but I can attest to this when it comes to composers as well. It seems to me that the greatest ones are those who have a level of spirituality inherent in their music, a deep religious feeling, and most of them were Catholics. Bach (Lutheran, but aesthetically and spiritually pretty much a Catholic), Mozart (Catholic), Fauré (complex relationship with Catholicism, but Catholic regardless), Bruckner (Catholic), Mahler (Jew, converted to Catholicism), Scriabin (Theosophist, but deeply rooted in Russian Orthodoxy), Poulenc (Catholic), Messiaen (Catholic), etc.
Why is it the Catholics are so smug? All that wealth and pageantry, claiming Mary is an intercessor, and scandal for millenia.. What have you guys got to be smug about? Luther was right. A religion so flawed and compromised that an austic German incel brought you to heel.
Pipe down and go iron your gowns or something.
>secular writers are bad! sooo bad. no one can prove me wrong.....so please post some
You're not fooling anyone.
>>24565327He's basically just asking to be proven wrong with recommendations in a very convoluted and poetic way, and you fucking retards still can't deliver.
>>24564028His parents were recusants so even if he wasn't a cryptocatholic every Anglican at the time were essentially still psychological Catholics due to the immediate history.
>>24566780Look up Matt Fradd podcast on Shakespeare.
>>24565317>All that wealthhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/264685/vatican-bank-recorded-a-net-profit-of-328-million-euros-in-2024-up-7-percent-from-2023
Outside of land, architecture, and works of religious devotional art, the Catholic Church is basically broke and yet has enough revenue to be a Fortune 5. What many don't realize is that in the US the Catholic Church is the third or second largest employer via their hospitals and schools and though they could profit they often lose money at their hospitals, they never turn down the poor for lack of insurance, and their schools barely profit too because they give generous scholarships or multi-child attendance discounts. The nice things the Church has is because She is sinless and purifies Her children's innumerable sins. It's why West Virginia (heretic, Freemason stew) is an absolute wasteland and rural Italy is so cozy. It's why the suburbs grown in vacuousness and Bruges is resplendant. All of Europes great cities without their Cathedrals are what most American cities are, places to do bsiness without center nor joy nor even the real potential for innocence.
>>24567044>Look up Matt Fradd podcast on Shakespeare.Lol that podcast has no evidence.
I just attended mass. What I am awed by is how angelic the members of the congregation always seem. Here's me, a degenerate coomer who's seen the worst and darkest of what /gif/ has to offer amongst all these heavenly creatures in suits, dresses and veils. I'm wearing unwashed clothes and I haven't showered because I woke up too late, degenerate that I am. I feel sweaty and wet from the rain. I'm crossing my fingers that the deodorant I'm using as a band aid is working to conceal any foul smells I might be emitting. I walk in 10 minutes early, kneel before the altar, cross myself, and go upstairs to the bathroom. This is a 19th century church bought from the Anglicans with a Dickensian staircase that is too narrow to allow more than 1 person to pass at once. In my self-absorption (I am a massive daydreamer) I walk up a third of the way before realising that a pretty girl with a veil and a red dress is descending simultaneously. Like a courteous Christian gentleman I walk backwards down the stairs and open the door for her to pass; and she in turn smiles at me demurely and thanks me with a half curtsey. Her white face seems to glow as though transfigured in angelic light; and I ashamedly avoid her eyes. "This is what the saints must have looked like," I think as she passes. As mass starts I kneel and contemplate going to confession. I haven't attended church in months now and my recent depression has inculcated in me a sort of moral stupefaction which has hardened my heart to life and beauty so much that a proper examination of my conscience is hard to carry out. I rehearse what I would say if I went: "I fell prey to nihilism and despair, I was suicidal, I watched pornography, I failed to discipline myself, I wasted my time, I dealt harshly with those whom I should love, I lost my faith in God,..." but then someone takes the seat to my left and blocks me from exiting the pew. And so I decide I'll do it next week. I pray hard for God to destroy my insensitivity, to send forth a ray of his light to purify my soul, but my prayer is ineffective. I shed one tear at the Gospel reading: it is about the multiplication of the loaves, and this gives me hope that with God even the desert that is my heart and soul could be transformed into a luscious spring. Finally when it is time for communion I leave early, and I'm sitting in my car now and writing this. Sorry for the blogpost, I intended to write about how angelic the members of the congregation seemed, but I got lost as one does.
>>24567044>Matt FraddTried watching him but he's ridiculously low iq. Painful to listen to him talk.
>>24567138https://youtu.be/YdfSoAazo7I?t=9316
>where's the Catholic contemporaries
>>24568308The Lamp publishes great works for one. But otherwise, Alexander Theroux and Hickman's Hinterlands (substack) are both tope tier. I'm sure there are others. It should be noted that I don't know contemporary that well.
>>24567088Praise God!
