Why are the greatest writers Catholic? (Or at last raised in its teachings)
Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Cervantes, Proust, Joyce, Pynchon
What did God mean by this?
Last time I checked, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Xenophon, Herodotus and pretty much every other great Greek was NOT Catholic.
Check and mate, as we say in the Chess world.
>>8273827
for a start Dante's Catholicism would have been immensely different to any one of those authors
Shakespeare wasn't Catholic.
All the shittiest authors you never heard of around Dante's time were catholic too
Also Chaucer, Cervantes, Joyce all relentlessly mocked the Catholic church
Proust was actually half catholic half jew. In his writing you can see an interesting mix of that, actually. He writes a lot about the Dreyfus case (google it) and laments the way jews are treated in France after that, but he also talks a lot about France's ancient churches and cathedrals, the lives of the saints, and some catholic rituals, if I'm not mistaken.
I thought Pynchon was a WASP
>Catholics
>God
they're apostates. the catholic church is the masterwork of satan, intending to draw believers away from the true church which is christ
>>8273847
Pynchon isn't catholic, it's double-sided bait
>>8274603
Fuck off proddy
>>8274615
pynchon was raised catholic.
>>8273862
>being this ignorant
Flannery O'Connor
>>8273827
Dante was a blasphemous egoist who hijacked Catholic theology and subdued it beneath his poetic genius to immortalize his love of Beatrice.
