Is Catholicism the only rational choice?
Catholic love of reason might have been what lead to its excessively high regard in the West, and thus the very undoing of religious hegemony, unfortunately.
>what is the induction fallacy
Denomination is largely unimportant so long as you're not a part of one of those whackjob churches in the midwest and southern US that espouse young earth creationism and snake whispering. Or a Mormon.
No, it's Judaism.
It's an ancestral religion, it also happens to be monotheistic unlike pretty much every other ancestral religion.
It's not a religion built on top of another, so that the scholarship and texts (i.e.: Great Isaiah Scroll) your religion's founders could not possibly possess can get you and your "prophecies" laughed at
>It is clear from this chapter that Isaiah’s declaration was a prophecy of the unsuccessful siege of Jerusalem by the two hostile armies of the Kingdoms of Israel and Syria, not a virgin birth more than seven centuries later.
Theologians can prevent any religion-science controversy as early as the 12th century (Maimonides). You get to keep all the ancient heritage and authority, and all of the scientific discoveries.
Nobody can criticize you, you can get holocaust deniers and anti-Semites in jail for speaking against you in several countries.
A country was created for you. IIRC the UN resolution was supposed to create two, yet only Israel was created while Palestine only has observer status, for some reason.
A debate against your faith starring Dawkins looks like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK0tpvcIRhU
You don't have to believe in God to be saved.
You can prove God wrong (Baba Mezi'a 59a).
The Vatican goes out of its way to tell you you don't need Jesus:
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/relations-jews-docs/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_20151210_ebraismo-nostra-aetate_en.html
so basically you're left with whoever gives a shit about the Letter to Hebrews and supersessionism anymore in 2016.
You can claim to be a Humanistic Jew, completely disregard faith, circumcision, commandments, lineage and genetics, and still bring diversity points to your company who's looking to hire a new special oppressed snowflake, so ultimately you get all the jewishness and none of the kikery.
>>496499
>It's not a religion built on top of another
Good one
>Christianity
>rationalism
Only the Spirit is welcome here, son.
>>496442
Yes, if you're going the Christian route
Protestanism is a zero-sum, both morally and logically.
>>496564
I don't think you understand what a shill is buddy
>>496530
The Hebrew Bible does not have an Older Testament Still that prophecises the coming of Adam, Moses, the Jewish people or anyone else, nor it references texts predating the Torah.
You may disprove Muhammad or Jesus being in the Tanakh but you can't disprove Judaism, because it's its own thing.
All archaeology is but confirm that YHWH was "always" the national god of Israel-Judah, even during polytheistic times and all the way back to the Bronze Age, and he was worshipped only there.
>>496666
>The Hebrew Bible does not have an Older Testament Still that prophecises the coming of Adam, Moses, the Jewish people or anyone else, nor it references texts predating the Torah.
You're right. It has Egyptian and Mesopotamian precursors it builds upon
>>496666
ok supersatanic gets
Judaism is founded upon Mesopotamian litterature, and the Canaanite gods Yaweh (god of war) and El (higher god).
All archaeology indicates is that a small tribe following Yaweh in particular decided to break off and become its own thing.
Unless you know something I don't
>>496442
Being a good, unmaterialistic, reasonable person is the only rational choice.
No fuck off
>>496442
Yup
No it's just worshipping a Canaanite war god like its prequel, offshoots, and sequel.
Fucking hell Christians are eternal cucks.
>that based Aristotelian explanation of transubstantiation
>solves problem of divine hidden Ness
>works based religion, so sinners don't just ask for forgiveness and continue to buy Hollister and hair gel
>purgatory makes God less of a dick
Yes. Catolocismo es la mejor religion del mundo.
>>496696
>Judaism is founded upon Mesopotamian litterature, and the Canaanite gods Yaweh (god of war)
This might sound stupid, but is that the reason for
"the lord is a man of war, yahweh is his name" in exodus?
