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laska said:
Stalin was not a Mormon. He was raised in the Greek Orthodox Church and was an atheist.
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That would be the Georgian Orthodox church and Stalin became an atheist after he was expelled from seminary for missing his final exams and not paying tuition fees.
 
14 of 15 ... clicked too fast on the Sabbath :roll:
 
Somerville said:
That would be the Georgian Orthodox church and Stalin became an atheist after he was expelled from seminary for missing his final exams and not paying tuition fees.
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My bad. Googled stalin religion and second website that pulled up stated Greek.
 
13 of 15 missed the Sabbath question and the one about reading the Bible as literature
 
Perotista said:
This one?

U.S. Religious Knowledge Quiz | Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project

The question I got asked what religion Joesph Stalin was.
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Goshin said:
Too easy for this evangelical Protestant. :)
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Too easy for this Baptist!

The only one I got wrong was not a religion question but law, or perhaps politics, and that was whether a teacher is allowed to read from the Bible as a literary example....

14/15 and better than 2% and less than 1%, whatever that means
 
Perotista said:
I didn't think so, but the answer on the quiz said he was a Mormon.
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No, the quiz talked about Joseph Smith, not Joseph Stalin.
 
Cephus said:
Question 9: What was Joseph Smith’s religion?

Nowhere in the quiz is Stalin mentioned at all.
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Hey, I misread it. I knew what religion Smith was, but you have to admit, it would have been much more interesting if the question was on Joe Stalin. At least I think so.
 
Gathomas88 said:
13 out of 15. I think I missed the questions about the Jewish Sabbath (I know it's on Saturday, but I wasn't sure if it technically started Friday night or not) and the "First Great Awakening."

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Nevermind, it tells you. :lol:

I apparently missed the question about reading from the Bible in the classroom and the "First Great Awakening."
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Weren't you amazed that your score wasn't higher? I assumed after all my biblical and religion studying that I'd ace it.

I'm not necessarily a real religious person, I simply wanted to understand what all the fuss was about and why so little was known about God.
 
grip said:
Weren't you amazed that your score wasn't higher? I assumed after all my biblical and religion studying that I'd ace it.

I'm not necessarily a real religious person, I simply wanted to understand what all the fuss was about and why so little was known about God.
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I don't feel too bad about it. All the ones I missed were either related to secular law, or media personalities I've never heard of.

I'd kind of like to take a more in-depth quiz and see how I do on it, however. lol
 
Perotista said:
Hey, I misread it. I knew what religion Smith was, but you have to admit, it would have been much more interesting if the question was on Joe Stalin. At least I think so.
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You got me wondering about Stalin. Seems he was Greek Orthodox, and his name really wasn't Stalin. I didn't know that, did you?

Joseph Stalin, whose real name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, was born and raised in Gori in what is now the nation of Georgia. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1953.

Stalin was raised very religious in the Greek Orthodox Church. He was named after Saint Joseph and was raised to be a priest. His father was a priest and young Joseph spent five years in a Greek Orthodox seminary.1
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Now it's up to the rest of you to figure out how to say his real name.
 
Gathomas88 said:
I don't feel too bad about it. All the ones I missed were either related to secular law, or media personalities I've never heard of.

I'd kind of like to take a more in-depth quiz and see how I do on it, however. lol
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I'm probably not good at remembering a lot of the verses I've read, but I'd put my religious philosophy up there with many scholastic theologians. Though when I talked to a priest about that stuff once and thought I'd really stump him or teach him something new, he had unbelievable depth on the subject. My old man told me, you realize how often he's heard those questions and answers, with pre-canned responses?

The problem with being a little intelligent is underestimating others knowledge. I'm just smart enough to be a wise ass and get into trouble. :lol:
 
Dittohead not! said:
You got me wondering about Stalin. Seems he was Greek Orthodox, and his name really wasn't Stalin. I didn't know that, did you?



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Now it's up to the rest of you to figure out how to say his real name.
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Yeah I did. But I would have had to look up his original name. For someone raised to be a priest, he was a real SOB. Robert Duvall played Stalin in a movie I watched the other day. From what I know of his history, it seem pretty accurate to me. Normally I do not like movies based on real live or dead people, I prefer documentaries, but the movie was quite good.
 
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