Source: The New York Times
Donald Trump’s proposal to bar Muslims from America may be a gift to ISIS recruitment and a grotesque echo of the sentiment behind the Chinese Exclusion Act and the internment of Japanese-Americans. But, like those earlier spasms of exclusion, the Trump proposal has plenty of supporters.
In one recent poll, more than three-quarters of Republicans said that Islam was incompatible with life in the United States. There’s a widespread perception in America that Islam is rooted in misogyny and violence, incorrigible because it is rooted in a holy text that is fundamentally different from others.
So here’s my quiz on religion. Some questions have more than one correct answer.
1. Which holy scripture declares: “Slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them captive, and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent…then leave them free. Lo! God is forgiving, merciful.”
2. Who had 700 wives?
3. Which holy book limits polygamy?
4. Which country bans churches?
5. Which scripture describes the Virgin Mary as preferred by God over all other women?
6. Which scripture describes Jesus as born to a virgin?
7. Which religious leader massacred an entire city, including “men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys,” saving only one prostitute and her family?
8. Who is said to have ordered a massacre of heretics and innocents alike with the explanation: “Kill them all. God will know his own”?
9. Who said: “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal”?
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