Comments | erudito: Religious links

erudito

Religious links

Oct 17, 2010 20:13

Test your religious knowledge.

About the Druze.

Review of a book on the lost Christianities of the Middle East.

Row between the religious and secular in Israel and whether government computers can work on the Sabbath.

Vatican condemns the work of the latest winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Being ironic about a notable anti-gay preacher ( Read more... )

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Comments 11

quatrefoil October 17 2010, 11:39:52 UTC

Aparently my religious knowledge puts me a few standard deviations from the norm - 15/15. Ah, well, I never made any claims to normal.

marycatelli October 17 2010, 20:33:56 UTC

You and me both.

But -- knowing who Jonathan Edwards is? How obscure did they get?

doushkasmum October 17 2010, 21:34:35 UTC

Well, I only missed the one about the Supreme court's opinion on prayer in school, which I think is a US legal question not a religious one. 8->

tyggerjai October 17 2010, 12:27:45 UTC

You are, I presume, familiar with the sabbath elevator?

Not as such erudito October 18 2010, 00:19:45 UTC

Not as such, no, enlighten me :)

Re: Not as such catsidhe October 18 2010, 02:24:29 UTC

It stops at every floor, so that you can get in and get out without having to push any buttons ( ... )

Re: Not as such hannahsarah October 18 2010, 04:56:25 UTC

Wow, good writeup!

There's a running joke about Chabad. "Lubavitch is a lovely religion. Its' the next best thing to Judaism!" Chabadnicks don't appreciate Yeshivish humor sometimes. ;-)

usuakari October 17 2010, 22:31:55 UTC

Like the others, I took the quiz and got 14/15 because I have no idea what the First Great Awakening is. I'll have to look it up...

The quiz is pretty US and Christianity focused, which is fair enough I suppose, given that it was a US survey in the first place. That being said, the percentages responding correctly to each question are pretty pathetic. Christian country my arse!

hannahsarah October 18 2010, 04:57:54 UTC

"The First Great Awakening", isn't that when Cthulu and the Elder Gods start wreaking havoc across the universe?

usuakari October 18 2010, 05:59:56 UTC

Sounds like it should be, doesn't it?

usuakari October 18 2010, 06:03:22 UTC

Having looked up the great awakening, I now understand why I didn't know much about it, and why people from the US may. Fire and brimstone type stuff has never really done it for me.

Jonathon Edwards sounds like he'd appeal to my mother... :(