a follow-up on religion

[winterbadger]

Thanks to the Globetrotter for this link to another and slightly more challenging religious quiz in the news.

For the record, I was 15/15 on the last one. This one? 7/13...

Comments

[watervole.livejournal.com]

There are errors on the links.

[winterbadger]

Thanks; fixed now.

[cmlc.livejournal.com]

Thanks - interesting!
I got 12/15, but every single one was a guess :-)

(Spoiler alert: it's quite easy if you guess on the basis that Islam is fluffy and nice. This seems to be the opposite of what the quiz compiler expects you to think.)

[winterbadger]

it's quite easy if you guess on the basis that Islam is fluffy and nice.

You think so? I wouldn't have said that.

[cmlc.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you're disagreeing about the quiz or about Islam :-)
The quiz compiler seems to want to confound the reader's preconceived notions, and seems to expect the reader to think of Islam as the one with hard line views and Christianity to be kinder, judging by the questions and answers. I simply have no such illusions about Christianity, so I bet all through the quiz on the nastiness being Christian and the nice things being Muslim - and as I say I got 12/15 as a result, despite knowing pretty much none of the answers!

My view of Islam itself is the same as my view of all religions. And I don't think they're fluffy and nice.

[winterbadger]

It's interesting that that worked for you, as I don't think the writer's intention is to make out Islam as fluffy and nice or Christianity as bad and wicked. I think his point is a little subtler than that.

[cmlc.livejournal.com]

No, I'm just bad at expressing myself. I meant the fluffiest/nastiest of *the options on offer in the quiz*.