On Basic Religion Test, Many Doth Not Pass

[GenesForLife]

The chickening society from the egg of religion ended up with the cancer of discrimination and oppression, and as for whether it matters, it may not in that religion and it's shortcomings have led to discrimination whether it is a part of it or not, but from the point of pedantry and intellectual rigour, it may matter a lot.

[Hermit]

I love Hinduism (aside from the Indian Nationalist brand). It is so fucking bonkers and pretty harmless for the most part it seems to me.

As long as you like the caste system !

Erm, I already went over this, it is prevalent in Hindu society, and prevalent because the religion does nothing to emphasise social equality, but isn't part of the religion itself.

How about the notion of karmic reincarnation .. that people deserve the good fortune or misery of their lives due to shit that happened in a 'previous life', and are treated accordingly?

I think the concept of karma is the worst aspect of hinduism. It engenders unspeakable callousness in regard to poverty, misery and every other blight known to human existence. People look at a child who had a leg amputated by its father to make it a more successful beggar, shrug their shoulders and walk on believing it must be the child's punishment for something it had done wrong in a previous existence. Nothing they can - or even should - do about any of it.

As for the vaunted peacableness of Hindus, don't hang around the scene of an accident in which you have knocked a cow over, and don't be the daughter of parents whose dowry was deemed insufficient by the in-laws. Also, unless I am mistaken, the hindus made a pretty good fist of themselves during the communal violence that took place at the time of the partition.

[GenesForLife]

You need to think back to Partition? Try 1984 Delhi, 1992 North India and 2004 Godhra.

[Faithfree]

Our Toastmaster's meeting topic today was Religious Tolerance. As the assigned Thoughtmaster today (you take a minute to express a thought on the subject) I suggested that the more educated we are about all kinds of religions, the more tolerant we might be. So I copied the test and answers as I went along when I took it yesterday and brought it to the meeting for everyone to take today.

The Christian members of our group weren't too happy about being the lower scorers, not to mention the Pew Research results I revealed after.

Good one Mai.

[Faithfree]

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0928/ ... bath-begin

You will have to either write it down on paper or notepad. Just go through writing each answer down and then on the last question they will provide the answers.

Scored 32/32!
Found them (mostly) very easy, though had an educated guess on a couple.

[leo-rcc]

32/32 because now I knew about that awakening bit.

btw, in a footnote in the answers it says this"

Some might disagree with Pew's characterization of atheism and agnosticism. Strictly speaking, atheism is the belief that God does not exist.

How many here said "wrong" at that point?

[Pappa]

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0928/ ... bath-begin

You will have to either write it down on paper or notepad. Just go through writing each answer down and then on the last question they will provide the answers.

Scored 32/32!
Found them (mostly) very easy, though had an educated guess on a couple.

32/32 for me too. And about 3 were educated guesses.

[beige]

I got them all this time around on the longer test - I didn't really have to guess any of them, but I admit that the Maimodes is something I didn't know before - but I did read it while looking around at stuff about the pew survey, so I suppose I should knock off a point because it's something I wouldn't have known if they'd called me up.