What Do You Really Know About the Bible? - FFRF quiz

[greyl]

"The bible is the "best seller" that is rarely read. How much do you actually know about the so-called "Good Book"?

Answer all 50 questions, then hit "Submit" for your score and full biblical documentation of all the answers.
http://www.ffrf.org/quiz/banswers.php

Example question:
1. What is the last of the Ten Commandments?

1. Don't steal.
2. Don't covet your neighbor's wife and property.
3. Don't boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.
4. Love your neighbor as yourself.

[raysr]

1. I know a guy

that had the Bible shoved down his throat as a youth and knows it backwards and forward.........he's a budhist!

[lakemonster11]

2. 30. What Christmas tradition is expressly forbidden in the bible?

Answer: C

Singing carols house-to-house.
Exchanging gifts.
Christmas trees. --Many other Christmas traditions have their roots in pagan practices, such as the holly wreath, a fertility symbol. Even the date of Christmas, near the winter solstice, is linked to sun worship. Modern Christians have stolen Christmas from the pagans.
"Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. . . . They are altogether brutish and foolish." (Jeremiah 10:2-8)



Is it weird that I think that's really cool? Now I really want to read a book about the origins of Christmas.

[greyl]

4. That's a good one.

It may deserve its own thread, being so timely. ;)

[lakemonster11]

6. Hmmm...now that I check my Bible...

In context, it seems to me that they're describing wooden idols, not Christmas trees.

Thus said the Lord:
Do not learn to go the way of the nations,
And do not be dismayed by portents in the sky;
Let the nations be dismayed by them!
For the laws of the nations are delusions:
For it is the work of a craftsman's hands.
He cuts down a tree in the forest with an ax,
He adorns it with silver and gold,
He fastens it with nails and hammer,
So that it does not totter.
They are like a scarecrow in a cucumber patch,
They cannot speak.
They have to be carried,
For they cannot walk.
Be not afraid of them, for they can do no harm;
Nor is it in them to do any good.
Jeremiah 10:2-5

Oh well!

[greyl]

9. Look again. It's saying that destroying trees to use as idols

is wrong behavior. That would include a cut "live" Christmas tree. Add to that the fact that a Christmas tree is an idol, and is typically adourned with still more idols, and it's pretty clear that the passage is anti-christmas tree even if it's an artificial one.

edit: However, I have to say that I'd quibble with "expressly forbidden" as used by the quiz. It falls just short of expressly I think. Expressly forbidden would be more like "thou shalt not do the christmas tree thing." ;)

[lakemonster11]

14. Oh, I agree it's anti-Christmas tree if you consider

it an idol (which is definitely arguable).

Yeah, it's the "expressly forbidden" that I would have to question.

:)

[tocqueville]

3. the 11th commandment ? don't get caught n/t

[NMMNG]

5. 31 out of 50

Congratulations! You scored 31 correct out of 50!

40 - 50: Wow! You know more than a minister, priest, or rabbi!

30 - 39: Congratulations! Better informed than most Americans

20 - 29: Passing Grade

10 - 19: Did you get your bible knowledge from Sunday School?

0 - 9: Don't feel bad. You may be better off not knowing much about the bible.

[greyl]

7. btw, I think "Wow! You know more than a minister, priest, or rabbi!"

is sarcasm, don't you?
I mean isn't the whole point of this quiz that the typical pious person who praises the Bible is in fact ignorant of the (even more) obviously nutty stuff it contains?

Iow, I don't suspect that the average minister, priest, or rabbi would score 40 - 50.

[NMMNG]

8. Oh yes

Most of the people who go around blathering about the Bible this and the Bible that would be hard pressed to quote more than the few verses they've been spoon fed in Sunday services. They know the clobber verses about how homosexuality is an abomination, blah blah blah. But hell if they know that the gold jewelry the women are wearing, the pork/shellfish they are eating and the divorce they got were also expressly forbidden in the same Bible. Why? Because their Priest/Pastor/Reverend never touched upon those verses--he wouldn't want to offend a crowd of people, at least 50% of whom were guilty of those sins. No, he sticks to the ones they can wield over other people, and feel all pious about.

[progdonkey]

10. link to the actual test

your link takes you to the answers page meant for after you've finished the test.

Here's the link to the test itself: http://www.ffrf.org/quiz/bquiz.php

[greyl]

11. Arrrrrrgh! Thanks a lot. :) nt

[progdonkey]

12. no problem :-) ... this agnostic got 35 out of 50!

I'm actually a bit surprised at how well I did, considering I felt many of the questions were throwing me for a loop, but I did already know I have a pretty good grasp of what's in the Bible.

It's been certainly true for the "Christians" I've met that rigid fundamentalism is directly proportional to ignorance of what's actually in the Bible. (Like "uber-patriots" who think the Constitution mentions Man's "inalienable rights.")

I especially loved number 43: "Which of these words is in the Bible? A. Trinity, B. Liberal, C. Christmas, D. Rapture." It's one of my favorite tools to use when some fundie says that "the phrase 'separation of church and state' doesn't appear in the Constitution," but they'll gladly listen to and/or deliver sermons about the holiness of the "Trinity."

[trotsky]

13. 37!

No too bad for an atheist, eh?

[Disturbed]

15. I took the test and flunked.

After reading the correct answers it is obvious that those folk living in those ancient times were extremely barbaric and cruel and illogical. How any human being today can say that they follow this Judeo/Christian religion? Strictly following the laws and rules laid out in the OT is astonishing. Are millions of people still as barbaric and cruel, ignorant and stupiid as those ancient people were? Obviously, millions are.

[CatholicEdHead]

16. Wow, only 15

but then reading the Bible is not something Catholics do.

[grumpy old fart]

17. well, which 10 commandments?

I mean the ones that got smashed are different than the second draft. Looks like this test some problems.