How religiously literate are you? A quick quiz to determine how much of the basics you know about major world religions!
Don't worry if you don't get a perfect score, come to Speed-Faithing (an open meeting of the Religious Life Council on Monday April 19 from 5:30 -7:00 pm in Murray Dodge) to learn the basic tenets of major world religions!
A series of physical postures used to promote physical fitness
A discipline or set of practices used to attain divine union
A mispronunciation of yogurt
A mythical green creature possessing great spiritual wisdom
Manu
Krishna
Vishnu
Hinduism has no single founder. It's a collection of philosophies and texts accumulated over the years.
The Bhagvad Gita
The Law Codes of Manu
The Upanishads
The Vedas
Holi
Diwali
Dusshera
Navratri
To get back at McDonald's for using beef lard in their French fries
Because Krishna was reputedly a cowherd
Because cows are simple and innocent creatures, giving of their milk and labor
Both b and c
Sunday
Monday
Thursday
Saturday
At birth
12 or 13
16 or 17
20
True
False
Honor your father and your mother
Do not provide false testimony
Do not steal
Pray 3 times a day
Hebron
Jerusalem
Mecca
Manhattan
4000 years ago
2500 years ago
1500 years ago
500 years ago
Kundun
Lao-Tzu
Confucius
Siddhartha Gautama
People are essentially good
There are many gods in the universe
The world is suffering
Meditation is the true way
3rd
4th
5th
6th
India
Korea
Thailand
Tibet
5
10
50
Too many to count
The Ramayana and the Bhagvad Gita
The Koran
The Guru Granth Sahib
The Kitab
Mecca
New Delhi
Bollywood
Nankana Sahib
The Golden Temple
Sudreh
Kusti
True
False
True
False
Navroze
Navjote
100
101
102
103
Isaac Asimov
John Dewey
Kurt Vonnegut
Peter Singer
All of the above
With the birth of Richard Dawkins
With Charles Darwin and the publication of the Origin of Species
With Karl Marx and Communism
With the teachings of Epicurus in the 3rd century BCE
Hugh Laurie
Audrey Hepburn
Gene Wilder
George Clooney
All of the above
Humanists are all atheists, nihilists, and turtleneck-wearers
Humanists are deists, pantheists, agnostics, and atheists, united by their rejection of belief in the supernatural
You will be excommunicated from Humanism if you are not an angry atheist
All humanists must be atheists
Humanists don't believe in any unified thing
Humanists don't agree on what they believe
Humanists don't believe in beliefs
Most humanists affirm the principles of one or more ethical or philosophical systems including Utilitarianism, the Humanist Manifesto, Existentialism, or the ethical codes of a variety of traditional religious systems
Jesus
Muhammad
Baha'u'allah
Moses
John the Baptist
Verification
Supercession
Contestation
Explanation
Mastering the mystical aspects of Islam
Attaining oneness with God
Becoming a Sufi saint
There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Manifestation of God
There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Incarnation of God
There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God
Quran and the Avesta
Quran and the Hadith
Quran and the Vedas
Quran and Arabian Nights
Quran and the Sutras
2
3
4
5
True
False
31 AD
32 AD
33 AD
34 AD
2 million
2.7 million
2 billion
2.5 billion
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
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