What's the second-most literary religion, after Catholicism?

What's the second-most literary religion, after Catholicism?

Islam

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all memes aside, Orthodoxy

gauged in terms of literature the gap between #1 catholicism and #2 whatever is so fucking massive it's basically not a comparison at all

Hinduism seems to have a fair few epic poems and texts.

Laveyan satanism

1. Catholic
2. Russian Orthodox
3. Anglican
4. Jewish
5. Buddhist
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999999989. everything else

Gnosticism.

>Anglicanism
literally /r/books-tier

atheism is the most literary religion of all

What should I read as an intro to Catholic thought? I've been around mostly Protestants and Jews my whole life. Is there a specific Bible I should buy?

Reading Foucault's Pendulum, I have to say this.

I have this one and it's excellent

Dickens, Wordsworth, Sterne, Rossetti...

They've got some good ones.

Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Ratzinger is the best place to start. From there it's hard to give out recommendations because there's a lot of different ones doing different things. Philosophy, theology, mysticism, literature etc.
After that I'd most likely go with Confessions by st Augustine and Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempen.

Buddhism - or possibly Hinduism.

this desu

> Catholicism is the most literary religion, guys!
> posts a picture based on Orthodoxy.

OP revealed to be a total poseur.

To answer your question, though OP, it's Orthodoxy.

>Catholicism
>the religion of bookburners and hysterical old maids
>Veeky Forums at all

t. r/atheism

Go Orthodox or go home!

>inserts banana into ass

Catholics use icons too, friend.

The Buddhist canon is more than eleven times greater in size than the Christian Bible.

A portion of it would be linked, but a full-chan link would not be permitted.

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Orthodoxy! Hail to the one true faith!

Orthodox are Catholic. You're conflating the Roman rite with all of Catholicism.

Don't be obtuse. When people say "Catholic" they generally mean the churches in communion with the Pope.

> Orthodox are Catholic

I know a couple million people who disagree with you.

For real, they are a lot closer than some Christian traditions but that they have serious differences. Besides not being in communion with each other (kind of a big deal in Christendom), they have major cultural differences.

Name a single great work written by an atheist.

t. Harold Bloom

He can't

my diary desu

Ouch

The Stranger

my fellow seeker

I really appreciate the Quran for the poetry. Haven't read much of the hadithes or sunna
in terms of sheer volume I have to agree
probably, at least in terms of christianity.

>this person unironically believes this

This except 3 and 4 should be flipped.

Anything by Percy Shelley and Marlowe.

literally who

The Bible

Protestantism. Awesome self-help and Infinite Jest. Also, New Atheism came from us.

Go to bed Harold

zen is more literary than any other religion