Quiz No. 2 - “Christian” America’s Permanent 30% Under-Caste

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Quiz No. 2 - “Christian” America’s Permanent 30% Under-Caste


1. Have college courses in “comparative religion” traditionally focused on the FIVE so-called “great religions” of the world?

2. Were those FIVE religions called “great” because each had more than 1 billion followers?

3. Was Judaism (the only one of the FIVE that did not have 1 billion followers) always included because two of the others (Christianity and Islam) are based on it?

4. For example, is “Allah” simply the Arabic word for the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?

5. Were the other two also “joined at the hip”?

6. For example, did the first Buddha die still thinking he was a Hindu monk?

7. BTW, has Buddhism fallen from the ranks of the FOUR religions that have more than a billion followers?

8. Was this the result of the success of The People’s Republic of China in stamping out religion?

9. Does every one of the world’s so-called FIVE “great religions” feature a version of “The Golden Rule” (do unto others as you would have them do unto you)?

10. For example, does Hinduism believe in reincarnation up and down the animal chain (and within the hierarchy of castes for the human species) based on how well the spirit has treated its fellow inhabitants of the earth in its most recent incarnation?

11. Does Judaism feature 613 Commandments?

12. Is one of them to “Love Your Neighbor As Yourself”?

13. Did Christ say in Luke 10:25-37 that to “inherit eternal life” there are TWO Commandments – To Love God and To Love Your Neighbor As Yourself – immediately following which is the Story of the Good Samaritan to drive home that EVERY human being is your “neighbor”?

14. BTW, is this the reason why so many religious orders down through the centuries have required a “vow of poverty” – because you can NOT truly love your “neighbors” as yourself until, inter alia, you have shared with them your wealth so that you are as poor as the poorest Bangladeshi (no offense intended toward Bangladesh or its inhabitants)?

15. Did Christ ON A DIFFERENT OCCASION answer the question of which of the 613 Jewish Commandments were the most important by saying that “the greatest” was “Loving God” and the “second greatest” was “Loving Your Neighbor As Yourself” (WITHOUT mentioning a “third greatest)?

16. On YET ANOTHER OCCASION commonly known as The Story of the Rich Young Ruler even though there is no evidence that he was either young or a ruler, did Christ “call the bluff” of the Rich Young Ruler who wanted Christ’s assurance that he would “inherit eternal life” because the RYR was claiming that he had kept all 613 Jewish Commandments “from his childhood up” -- by saying “then sell all your worldly assets and give the proceeds to the poor”???!!!

17. Does the CIA’s World Factbook (www.cia.gov > World Factbook > United States > People and Society) say that 46.5% of the 332,639,102 estimated population of the U.S. is Protestant and 20.8% is Roman Catholic – for a total of 67.3% “Christian”?

18. Is this the reason why The U.S. Supreme Court, as the nation’s highest but unelected legislative body, has NEVER DARED to remove “In God We Trust” from American currency? Or was the U.S. Supreme Court’s reason that when the U.S. went off “The Gold Standard” in 1933, there was nothing else to support U.S. currency?

19. Did the First Short Quiz review the sad facts of, and surrounding, America’s Permanent 30% Under-Caste that has existed for more than half a century?

20. So how is it that in a predominantly “Christian” society that knows that to “inherit eternal life” its members are required to (1) Love God, AND (2) Love Their Neighbors As Themselves – America has had for more than half a century a Permanent 30% Under-Caste???