{"id":3871,"date":"2010-10-12T20:28:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T19:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2010-10-12T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T19:30:00","slug":"a-short-religious-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3871","title":{"rendered":"A short religious quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3781\">my earlier posting<\/a> about the results of a survey in the United States examining how much people knew &#8211; in most cases, very little &#8211; about various religious faiths including their own. There was a link from the posting to some of the questions posed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, thanks to a recommendation from an American friend, I&#8217;d like to link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/10\/opinion\/10kristof.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\">a piece<\/a> in the &#8220;New York Times&#8221; which presents a 13-question quiz that I think you&#8217;ll find find particularly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas D. Kristof concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; religion is more complicated than it sometimes seems, and &#8230; we should  be wary of rushing to inflammatory conclusions about any faith,  especially based on cherry-picking texts. The most crucial element is  perhaps not what is in our scriptures, but what is in our hearts.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree with this, but I would also argue that <em>all<\/em> religious texts are of their time and should not be interpreted literally as applying to our modern world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have seen my earlier posting about the results of a survey in the United States examining how much people knew &#8211; in most cases, very little &#8211; about various religious faiths including their own. There was a link from the posting to some of the questions posed. Now, thanks to a recommendation from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}