Name that world view!
1. Was Joespeh Stalin, who murded millions of his own countrymen:
a. A Seventh Day Advenist,
b. A High Church Episcopalian,
c. A Free Will Baptist, or
d. An Atheist
2. Was Adolf Hitler, who historians agree murded millions of Jews in camps, and killed millions more in his conquest for world power:
a. A Lutheran,
b. A Roman Catholic,
c. A Methodist, or
d. Inspired by Nitzche and German Pagan Mythology and literally tried to replace the Bible with Mien Kampf after jailing thousands of clergy
3. Was Pol-Pot, who murdered 1/3 the population of Cambodia in the 1970’s:
a. A Southern Baptist,
b. A Pentacostal,
c. A Disciple of Christ, or
d. An Atheist
4. Did Ted Bundy, who murded at least a hundred women as a psychopathic serial killer, like to spend time with:
a. The King James Version of the Bible,
b. The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible,
c. The New International Verstion of the Bible, or
d. Playboy Magazine
5. Was William Wilburforce, who in the 1800’s was the driving force in English Parlaiment that ended slavery in British territories, and eventually in the world:
a. An agnostic,
b. An enlightenment philosopher,
c. Both a and b,
d. An Evangelical Christian
6. Was Mao Tse-tung, leader of the Chinese Cultural Revolution which alone killed at millions of Chinese:
a. A Buddhist
b. A Quaker
c. A Missionary Baptist
d. A Materialistic Atheist
7. Was legal slavery last ended in:
a. Primarily Protestant Christian countries (America, Western Europe, etc.) in the middle 1800’s,
b. In Orthodox countries (Russia and Greece) in the late 1800’s,
c. In the primarily Roman Catholic Philippines in the early 1900’s, or
d. In Saudi Arabia in the 1960’s.
8. Was Issac Newton, the discoverer of physics and calculus:
a. A skeptical athetist
b. An agnostic
c. An evolutionist
d. A Christian
9. Was Joseph Lister, who around the turn of the twentieth century developed means of anti-septic surgery and ushered in a new era of life-saving medicine:
a. An evolutionist
b. An agnostic
c. An atheist
d. A Quaker
10. Was Louis Pastuer, who developed the germ theory of medicine and discovered how to manufacture vaccines and how to purify food—thereby saving millions of lives:
a. A scientist who credited his finds to a belief in evolution
b. An agnostic
c. A diest
d. A Roman Catholic
For each letter a, b, or c, count one point. For each letter d, count ten points.
If you scored 100 points: Correct.
If you scored 10: You probably think that the ‘religious right’ is lurking behind every grassy knoll while preparing take over the world. You may even think that one has more to fear from one commanded to love their neighbors and even to love their enemies than from those who reject all morality. Stop watching TV so much. Go to the library and read some good history books.