Let's face it. Protestants cannot into aesthetics. Its mostly modern, ugly and cheap. Only exception are Anglicans and Lutherans, but even they just copy Catholics.
Let's face it. Protestants cannot into aesthetics. Its mostly modern, ugly and cheap...
Caleb Allen
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Justin Taylor
Let's face it, this is a bait thread
Parker Perry
I agree
I do also like the way the Orthodox/Eastern-Catholics do things too though. It manages to feel archaic, yet still eloquent in the same way mid to late medieval art does.
Elijah Wilson
If Joel Osteen is quintessentially Protestant, then the Lavender Mafia are quintessentially Catholic.
This post only makes you sound like a whiny bitch.
Isaac Scott
Joel Osteen is to Protestantism as Andrew Cuomo and James Martin are to Catholicism.
Also, fixed your fallacious image.
Anthony Cook
Just noticed the edge overlapped.
Fixed now.
Josiah Robinson
Granted plenty of protty shit looks like bollocks, but you can't tact gold and white onto everything and say it looks anywhere near good
Daniel Parker
pick one.
Hudson Long
I don't know. Anglicans at least seem to have a pretty good track record.
Colton Bell
Charles Hernandez
There's actually speculation that Shakespeare was Catholic…
Also, surprised no Catholic has mentioned Oscar Wilde if we're talking literary aesthetics, given how much he's associated with it.
Kevin Williams
Let's not forget Lewis. The stream of consciousness scene at the end of Perelandra was aesthetic as Whinnie the Poohbear.
Hudson Cruz
One could say that about most/all modern religious practices. All superficial faces designed to attract capital in the form of self-help seminars and faux personalities. Each a mask, desperately trying to hide from the prying eyes of humanity yet all doomed to fail in the eyes of the creator.
It's why I generally hope most people go about spirituality in their own way after obtaining something of a knowledge-base.
Mason Phillips
Yea, that's more probably the Case, Shakespeare was more Catholic at heart. And you can see allegories of this in his Writings. When Hamlet is talking to his Dead Father's Ghost. As an allegory to Purgatory that his soul still had sins that he had to pay for, and couldn't move on yet. So i'd agree with that claim that Shakespeare although convert over to Protestantism. Was More Catholic at heart in his beliefs.
Anthony Thomas
It's definitely possible, but I'd be less skeptical if it wasn't for the fact that every group tries to say that Shakespeare was one of them. The atheists say that he was an atheist, the gays say that he was gay, the blacks say that he was black etc. At least the Catholic theory isn't as far fetched as those.
Gabriel Howard
Some say he never existed at all, but was an amalgam of people like Francis Bacon and others. So …
Xavier Clark
I dont want to attack protestants because they appeared due to the imperfection of the Church. The islam also appeared for this same cause.
Chase Adams
You're all avoiding the man question: Did Shakespeare have scales or feathers?
Jonathan Rivera
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Xavier Moore
Sebastian Miller
uh…
Robert Young
Let's face it. Warmbloods cannot into aesthetics.
Camden Jenkins
Passionists are peak aesthetic.
Andrew Rogers
Camden Russell
I agree it's a strawman. If you want to meme on Catholics back you should put this under Catholicism.
Jaxon Gomez
Shakespeare is on Elizabethan record has skipping Anglican Sunday Mass using crypto-catholic excuses to avoid it at the time.
I also remember Shakespeare's puritan daughter seeming to rebuke him a bit (puritans were against the theatre as well as catholicism), so it kinda makes sense.
dickens was not anglican, he was unitarian
as for milton, he would have wept to see the day the anglicans admitted women bishops
Hunter Jackson
Shakespeare was not Catholic, but his mother's family were "Old Rite" at least:
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This documentary details the surprisingly large amount of evidence for Shakespeare, and will also delight the Catholics on this board for neverendingly hyperventilating about Tudor security measures, since it is well known that no Catholic kingdom had such. Also, he loves to put words in Will's head. Still, as a collection of old records documenting the Bard, much here is to be admired.
I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away.
Hamlet was written after the 39 Articles:
Or more elaborately:
Levi Stewart
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Adrian Smith
Funny, it seems like the Apostolics ITT are the only ones who care about physical appearance.
John Lewis
I mean, I'm catholic and I couldn't really care less about the look of things. I myself don't dress at all like most Christians (Spiked hair, leather jacket, jeans, Doc Martins). It probably looks funny when I'm in church next to people in dress clothes (though I do dress up on holy days), but id rather come into god's house as I truly am than put on a facade.
I can still appreciate aesthetics though. It's an attempt to go the extra mile for the sake of glorifying Christ. That doesn't mean something like a low mass or an impoverished church aren't still beautiful for what they represent (ie the faith being present in all forms, regardless of wealth, status, culture, etc.).
Isaac Martin
I'm the same way. You misunderstand many protestants. I see the value of going the extra mile for our Lord, like Mary Magdalene with the myrrh, but I also have no problem with simplicity.
Elijah Anderson
The problem I have with Protestantism (as well as liberal Catholicism) is simplification to the point of commodification (as demonstrated in the OPs examples). I like there to be a strong sense of sanctity in my religious practice, and while I do say this is an issue that impacts all denominations to varying degrees, I see it more commonly in Protestantism than I do in Catholicism or Orthodoxy.
I understand the need to make the faith accessible, but if you go too far it starts to become more of a bland social club. That's part of why I'm really into monasticism and asceticism; it's hyper simplistic while also being incomparably reverent.
Matthew Perez
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Lucas Allen
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That was a great movie
Thanks for the memories
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Justin Edwards
I'm not sure if I can speak for other branches of Protestantism, but at least in Reformed circles, there's a profound sense of spirituality.
Psalm-singing is common, if not normative in churches.
Not to mention the various reformed writers who provided moving theological treatises (Jonathan Edwards, John Owen, John Bunyan, etc.).
In fact, there's a story told of Edwards not sure if it's true or not that he went out riding into the woods to reflect and pray.
While meditating on the Trinity, he wept at how beautiful the nature of God was.
Granted, many professed "Protestants" have shallow, ridiculous spirituality, but nominalism has been a problem since Constantine made Christianity a licit religion.
John Roberts
Based
Lincoln Carter
What movie is that? I am really curious.
Hunter Peterson
It's from the movie Oedipus Rex based on the famous greek play. The movie tried to present the play in a way that the greeks would present it. The movie over all was okay, but this scene is most memorable because of just how over-the-top his rage is.
Aaron Ortiz
And here is the whole movie of you want to watch it
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