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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

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24164a  No.787908

Is Christian nihilism just the Doomers before it was a meme? I use to be a Christian nihilist until I start wanting to be attached to the world and other humans again.

a7ec2c  No.787911

>Christian nihilism

This is a total contradiction in terms. One cannot be a theist and a nihilist simultaneously, let alone a Christian and one.


24164a  No.787918

>>787911

Christian nihilism is when you turn your back on the living mortal world because you realize life and the earthly things are pointless.


a7ec2c  No.787922

>>787918

That is not Christianity, then, but Gnosticism, an ancient heresy. We read in Genesis that God created the world and He saw that it was good; to believe otherwise is therefore a sin.


24164a  No.787925

>>787922

>but Gnosticism

How is it Gnosticism? Christian nihilism has nothing to do with mysticism.


a7ec2c  No.787926

To answer your original question: no. Doomers are mostly depressed and existentially bereft moderns who have nothing to live for. "Christian nihilism," i.e., Gnosticism, is heresy. Emotional weakness and infidelity are not the same thing.


a7ec2c  No.787934

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>>787926

To be honest, your whole OP is confusing since your terms and definitions are apparently arbitrary. Nihilism, from the Latin root nihil means "nothing-ism," i.e., the belief that value does not intrinsically exist, that all things are worth nothing. This is a contradiction of "Christian" since Christians believe Christ to be worth at least something (if not, preferably, everything). This is why is it ontologically impossible to be both a Christian and a nihilist. It is like being both a man and a woman at the same time.

The belief that the world, material reality, is somehow intrinsically evil, is a prime belief of the ancient Gnostic heretics and, indeed, many contemporary occultist idiots. A Christian cannot be a Gnostic because the Christian knows creation, as a work of God, is intrinsically good—not perfect, but good. The beauty and order of creation are signs towards the beauty and order of its creator.

Therefore, what you describe as "Christian nihilism" might be more properly termed as "pessimistic Christianity" or something like that. Even still, it would be an error. When Our Lord speaks of worldly things, He is not speaking about creation in whole—why would God detest things of His own making? Instead, when Our Lord or the Saints speak of "worldly desires" or "worldly things" they are talking about human beings missing the mark, so to speak, missing the creator for the creation. This, of course, is the chief error of paganism, which mistakes the world and its creatures as eternal. The Christian understands that ultimate goodness, truth, beauty, contentment, order, etc. lies outside and beyond creation and not within it.


d4b23d  No.787967

Isn't Ecclesiastes pretty much about christian nihilism?


24164a  No.787971

>>787967

>Isn't Ecclesiastes pretty much about christian nihilism?

What’s that?


d443c1  No.787972

>>787925

Gnostics hate the material world and see it as an evil prison. Which is heresy because God created the material world and made it good.


d443c1  No.787973

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>>787967

No it isn't.


a7ec2c  No.787982

>>787971

One of the books of the Old Testament.

READ YOUR BIBLE


9da6a2  No.787984

>>787908

> Christian nihilist

That's an oxymoron. As this anon >>787911 says, you can't be both. As a Christian, the meaning of life is to have a relationship with God.


0d51fa  No.788889

>>787922

Idk what Christian nihilism or Gnosticism entails but worldly isn't the same as the world.


7e36e3  No.788912

What about Christian existentialism? The likes of Kierkegaard, and such?


4ab52f  No.788953

>>788912

As a Catholic I give it a hard pass, but Kierkegaard does have more of my respect then say Frederick Nietzsche.


24164a  No.788961

>>788912

That sounds cratchy




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