Religion A-Z #2

Guess these religion-themed answers from A to Z.

All answers are a single word

For the purpose of this quiz, "religion", "ideology", and "spirituality" are interchangeable

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Last updated: November 27, 2018

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	Clue	Answer
A	Religious group that shuns many modern inventions	Amish
B	Biblical city ruled by Nebuchadnezzar	Babylon
C	97% of people from this country are Buddhist	Cambodia
D	He slept in the lion's den	Daniel
E	Where Osiris and Ra were worshipped	Egypt
F	What Muslims do during daytime in the month of Ramadan	Fast
G	Hindu god with an elephant head	Ganesha
H	Greek god of the underworld	Hades
I	The only majority Jewish country	Israel
J	Biblical character who was swallowed by a "great fish"	Jonah
K	Indian belief crudely summarized as "what goes around comes around"	Karma
L	He started the Protestant Reformation	Luther
M	Islamic place of worship	Mosque
N	Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, ...	Numbers

	Clue	Answer
O	Branch of Christianity practiced in Russia: Eastern ________	Orthodox
P	Zoroastrianism was the state religion of this empire	Persian
Q	Religious group also known as Friends	Quakers
R	End of the world in Norse mythology	Ragnarök
S	Largest branch of Islam	Sunni
T	Chinese belief system based on the teachings of Laozi	Taoism
U	Greek primordial deity who personified the sky	Uranus
V	Headquarters of the Catholic church	Vatican City
W	Muslim men are permitted to have as many as four of these	Wives
X	Ancient galactic overlord in the beliefs of Scientology	Xenu
Y	God of the Israelites	Yahweh
Z	King of the Greek gods	Zeus

Level 81

Nov 28, 2018

Oh. I didn't know Yahweh was with a v. I tried Yahveh and when that didn't work Yehova and nope. Doesn't help when my native language treats v and w as the same letter.

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Level 74

Apr 18, 2019

"But in the Latin alphabet, 'Jehovah' begins with an 'I'."

Level 81

Apr 18, 2019

Only in the footsteps of god will he proceed...

Level 78

Nov 8, 2021

Tried lots of ways to spell Yahweh . I knew the answer but could not spell it correctly . maybe a bit of leniency on the spelling like in so many jetpunk quizzes should be allowed here .

Level 75

Nov 28, 2018

Ugh. I thought the N clue wanted to know what group of books Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus belonged to. Can't argue with 67% getting it right though

+11

Level 90

Nov 28, 2018

Yeah, perhaps a _____ instead of a ... would make it more clear.

Level 75

Feb 4, 2019

An ellipsis makes more sense to me - it suggests that it is a sequence of words and the next word is missing

Level 67

Nov 29, 2018

Ditto!

Level 60

Nov 28, 2018

could you accept Numeri instead of Numbers for the bible book?

Level 71

Nov 29, 2018

If you would like a less "crude" expression of karma – because yeah, that one sounds pretty glib – and one that will raise the quizee's knowledge via exposure to accurate terminology, you could change it to something like "The Indian principle of cause and effect".

Level 87

Dec 3, 2018

That sounds Newtonian.

Level 63

Feb 19, 2019

Wouldn't V work without the 2nd word as those are all supposed to be single word answers? I know it's accepted without but it just caught my eye.

Level 62

Apr 18, 2019

Yeah, Scientology is not a religion. It's a cult

+12

Level 83

Apr 18, 2019

the difference being?

Level 59

Apr 19, 2019

You probably want to look at Steven Hassan’s BITE Model and that might help you understand the difference. Look at jehovah's witnesses or mormons compared to non-cult christian groups, for example

Level 83

Apr 19, 2019

I've looked. Okay, so, using the BITE model, let's look at, say, Christianity...

promote dependence and obedience. check.

modify behavior with rewards and punishments. check.

dictate where and with whom you live. check.

restrict or control sexuality. check.

control clothing or hairstyle. check.

regulate what and how much you eat and drink. check. bigger check or Judaism or Islam, though.

deprive you of seven to nine hours of sleep... I don't think so? Do we have to check off every single box to be a cult? Islam does that by forcing you to wake up and pray but Christianity I don't think so except on Sundays.

exploit you financially. check.

restrict leisure time and activities. check.

require you to seek permission for major decisions. like whom you're allowed to marry? check.

deliberately withhold and distort information. check.

forbid you from speaking with ex-members and critics. I wouldn't say forbid, but strongly advise against? check

Level 83

Apr 19, 2019

I ran out of characters there was more to the list but... just going down what they've got, it definitely seems like all Abrahamic religions fit the bill and should be considered cults. If this is your standard.

Level 59

Apr 25, 2019

I'm not sure you can apply it to as broad a label as christianity, or islam or any other religion. There is too much variation between the subgroups. I personally think a group needs to check off a clear majority of the boxes, but more importantly I think the degree to which a group fulfills each criterion must be considered. Sure, you could say that giving in church or something is technically financial exploitation, but it's a far cry from scientology fees and to fail to distinguish the two is silly. I also don't know that christianity in general discourages contact with ex members or critics, but consider that jehovah's witnesses can be disfellowshipped even as children, and these children may be permitted to remain in the family home, but they will not be allowed to eat with the family and they will have minimal contact- This is clear extremist/ cult behaviour. I don't see that getting up to pray is any different than getting up to go to work or something. Perspective is important

Level 83

May 21, 2019

I would say that all branches, sects, and pretty much even individual ministries within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam check off the majority of boxes on the BITE model and most check off pretty much all of them, but you're right that there can be degrees. For instance, most Christians would discourage you from walking around in public nude. They will shame you for showing someone else certain parts of your body. I'd call this controlling the clothing you wear. Certain sects take this to a whole different level, though, mandating to a high degree of detail exactly what you can and cannot wear including undergarments, hats, even buttons. But they all seek to control how you dress, what you do with your body, how you cut your hair etc to an extent and it's been that way since Judaism was founded (originally on the basis of genital mutilation). I didn't see that degrees were part of the model, though.

Level 75

Jun 14, 2019

Olober - you've never heard of tithes or excommunication?

A bit outmoded in many places now maybe but I expect that would be because the church has lost a lot of the power it was holding over people - I expect they would enforce such things if they could

Level 90

Mar 5, 2021

To perhaps further disparage the BITE model, how about we look at parenting?

promote dependence and obedience. check.

modify behavior with rewards and punishments. check.

dictate where and with whom you live. check.

restrict or control sexuality. check.

control clothing or hairstyle. check.

regulate what and how much you eat and drink. check.

deprive you of seven to nine hours of sleep... as a parent, the opposite really.

exploit you financially. arguably.

restrict leisure time and activities. check.

require you to seek permission for major decisions. like whom you're allowed to marry? check.

deliberately withhold and distort information. Far too often.

forbid you from speaking with ex-members and critics. Typically not, but occasionally seen.

Parenting is a cult. We need to liberate all minors!

Level 83

Aug 10, 2021

Being a child doesn't mean you are in a cult though it just means that you are born into a perpetually renewed underclass. And eventually you grow out of it. Quite a bit different.

Level 56

Apr 18, 2019

The only difference between a religion and a cult is the number of followers.

Level 90

Mar 6, 2021

I think I'd say the biggest difference between what we call religions or cults is actually how acceptable their beliefs and behaviors are to people outside the organization. Take the Amish as an example: they are viewed as super strict and insular, but their practices and beliefs aren't objectionable to the majority, even if viewed as quaint, so they're accepted as a religion.

Level 73

Apr 18, 2019

There's a creation story, fantastical characters, and you have to give them money. Sound familiar? Only we factually know the source of that flavor of nonsense.

Level 83

Apr 19, 2019

I'd actually recommend looking up the "BITE" model that Olober referenced above. It all sounds very VERY familiar, to me, someone who used to be a devout practicing evangelical Christian in the USA, and who later converted to Islam in Saudi Arabia (for the lolz, but still, went through the process), and later lived in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Israel. *very* familiar.

Level 44

Nov 6, 2021

so are the quakers and the amish man this quiz literally said it treats certain beliefs and ideologies as a religion in the description

Level 56

Nov 6, 2021

All religions and shared beliefs are cults.

Level 73

Mar 29, 2022

It's not even a cult. It's a pyramid scheme, with some mob elements to spice it up.

Level 83

Apr 18, 2019

You ought to at least accept masjid for mosque, and possibly Mecca and Medina as they are the two most significant. But masjid is the non-Romanized version. and all of the above starts with M.

Level 74

Apr 18, 2019

I agree with masjid being acceptable as that is what muslims call it regardless of their language (maybe turkish might be an exception here).

However, Mecca and Medina should not be acceptable answers based on the clue provided.

Level 83

Apr 18, 2019

are they not places Muslims worship?

I wouldn't add them either, but I would put in Masjid

Level 65

Apr 18, 2019

"Place of worship" colloquially means the name of the specific building or area in which worship takes place. Holy cities are another matter.

Level 60

Apr 18, 2019

I think every one of us calls it Masjid instead of mosque. So I think "Masjid" should be added as a type-in.

Level 83

Apr 18, 2019

Mecca is a specific area in which worship takes place. Have you ever been there during hajj?

Level 55

Jun 21, 2022

should we also accept every city on god's green earth that starts with m and has at least 1 praying muslim in it? montreal, madrid, melbourne, etc etc?

and yes i've been to mecca during hajj, not like this is a requirement to make this statement

Level 57

Apr 18, 2019

Came to say too that Masjid should be the correct answer, with mosque possibly as a second option.

Level 83

Apr 18, 2019

Yahweh is not we, Jewish people, use or have ever used for G-d.

Level 83

Apr 18, 2019

Yahweh is the name of the old Hebrew air god. These primitive people believed that he existed everywhere, that being inside of you is what gave things life (as they were filled with air; breath), and that you could not avoid saying his name as it's the sound you make when you inhale (yah) and exhale (weh). Some of this is speculative. We don't know exactly how old Hebrews used to vocalize the names of their old gods because starting around the 3rd century BC their superstition made them think it was bad to say or write down the gods' names. Jehovah became a common English transliteration. There are something like 50+ different gods mentioned in the Hebrew bible, and good reason to believe that at some point Hebrews at least believed in and probably worshipped many, until a couple different gods got fused into their concept of YHWH and eventually they became monotheistic similar to in Egypt when the pantheon was slowly abandoned in favor of worship of Amon-Ra, another combined god.

Level 61

Apr 23, 2019

Really? You're saying the tetragrammaton יהוה means nothing to you? Yahweh, Yehova, Yeshua. Literally all the same thing.

Level 66

Apr 25, 2019

You fail to understand that the tetragrammaton is a sacred name for God that is traditionally believed to be unpronounceable/secret pronunciation (Hebrew does not have vowels). The English (seemingly phonetic) rendering of Yahweh is not only impossible in Hebrew (which doesn't have a w sound, and the number of letters doesn't even correspond), but shows a lack of basic understanding of the significance of the letters in Jewish thought, tradition, and belief. To render them here, as blackholexsun has done, shows yet more ignorance. Whether from a technical or religious perspective, Yahweh is not significant to or representative of the Jewish people in this English form.

Level 83

Apr 25, 2019

^those traditions (read: silly superstitions) are more recent than the name of the god we're talking about.

Level 65

Feb 28, 2022

Kal, why insult others religion. Sure you can say you think it is false or that they are inconsistent, but to call someones traditions as silly is just rude. Any tradition that is not your own will tend to be "silly" if you can't or refuse to understand it. That doesn't mean you have to disrespect them whenever you can. If you don't have something nice to say..

Level 47

Apr 18, 2019

Please accept Dao(ism)

Level 65

Apr 18, 2019

The whole question should be removed to stick with the alphabet theme. You combine Laozi's name spelled in pinyin with Taoism spelled in Wade-Giles. That's wildly inconsistent.

Level 65

Apr 18, 2019

I tried Dao first and was wildly confused

Level 67

Apr 18, 2019

Ragnarok is not the end of the world in Norse mythology. It means "Twilight of the gods," and it does feature a lot of natural disasters, a great battle, and the death of many (but not all) gods, and humanity survives as well.

Level 83

Apr 18, 2019

yeah but then they get stopped by Thanos on their way to Earth.

Level 83

Apr 18, 2019

I honestly wish I could travel 1000 years in to the future just to see if Jesus had made it on to the Avengers by then. I assume that some day he'll be treated about the same as Thor is now. I know South Park made him part of the Super Best Friends but that's a parody; I want to see the serious Russo Brothers version of Jesus.

Level 83

Apr 18, 2019

awesome

Level 77

Apr 18, 2019

If you haven't seen it, the show Preacher's depiction is nice.

Level 69

Apr 18, 2019

Could the "Y" question potentially be changed, as Jews are not allowed to write the name of G-d. Great quiz though.

Level 60

Apr 19, 2019

weird.

Level 59

Apr 19, 2019

jkabq its not weird. In Judaism, if one writes G-d's name, they can not throw out the paper on which it is written or erase the word itself

Level 75

Jul 10, 2019

Yes, it is. Just because it's established, doesn't mean it's not weird.

Level 67

Dec 17, 2019

That is tough when you write it online. Then you cant close the tab? But what if you browser or computer crashed. (It happened to me soo many times, a lot of tabs open which I wasnt done with yet, for various reasons the computer restarts and all the tabs are gone... (without the option of restore your session)

Level 75

Apr 18, 2019

I'd like to thank Thor for being able to provide the answer "Ragnarok". Never would have got it if it weren't for the movie.

Level 62

Apr 18, 2019

sad, i thought the N question was asking for the group of books because i read the ellipsis as "etc" instead of it indicating that i had to complete a sequence, would have gotten it though :(

Level 80

Apr 18, 2019

Thank god I'm an atheist.

Level 83

Apr 19, 2019

Did Satan put you up to making Fuller House?

Level 64

Nov 9, 2021

What?

Level 22

Apr 27, 2019

100% with 1:16 remaining

Level 67

Jan 3, 2020

Please allow "Ouranos" as a type-in for "Uranus".

Level 75

Nov 9, 2020

For a deity whose name starts with the letter U?

Level 73

Nov 6, 2021

I would have thought Holy See would be the more precise characterization for the V question, but I'm not sure. Any insights?

Level 78

Nov 6, 2021

My only insight is that it's not called the Voly See.

Level 59

Nov 6, 2021

Nice

Level 59

Nov 6, 2021

Not sure how I came up with Xenu but okay lol

Level 69

May 28, 2022

MINE IS Q!!!

Level 55

Jun 21, 2022

im just here for the enlightened edgelords saying religion bad

Level 54

Jul 14, 2022

For U, is should be changed to say "Roman primordial diety" not Greek. The Greek equivalent of Roman Uranus is Ouranos.

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