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Questions to test religious beliefs

Stop Indoctrination

In matters of extraordinary claims, kids are outgunned by adults. Good quality questions serve to equalize the inequality

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Religious Tolerance Website

Religious Tolerance

Unlike essentially all other religious web sites, we don't promote the beliefs and practices of a single religion, or of one denomination, faith group, or sect within a single religion. Instead we try to explain the beliefs, practices, moral teachings and histories of a wide range of faith groups within many religions. We promote religious tolerance, freedom, understanding, coexistence, respect, and cooperation. We also promote equal rights and treatment of persons of all races, nationalities, genders, gender identifications, and sexual orientations.

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God Checker

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📚 Books(5)

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The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture

Darrel Ray

Dr. Darrel Ray, psychologist and lifelong student of religion, discusses religious infection from the inside out. How does guilt play into religious infection? Why is sexual control so important to so many religions? What causes the anxiety and neuroticism around death and dying? How does religion inject itself into so many areas of life, culture, and politics? The author explores this and much more in his book The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture. This second-generation book takes the reader several steps beyond previous offerings and into the realm of the personal and emotional mechanisms that affect anyone who lives in a culture steeped in religion. Examples are used that anyone can relate to and the author gives real-world guidance in how to deal with and respond to people who are religious in our families, and among our friends and coworkers.

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Worldviews: Crosscultural Explorations of Human Beliefs

Ninian Smart

This book offers a balanced, wide-ranging, and realistic approach to the full range of worldviews, showing how, whether religious or secular, they define the human values that drive the engines of both continuity and change worldwide. It shows readers the dynamics of each tradition, and emphasizes that although the various traditions may all share similar aspects, they each assign varying levels of importance to specific areas. KEY TOPICS: Explores the major religious traditions and secular ideologies (Marxism, nationalisms, scientific humanism) from six dimensions: experiential/emotional; narrative/mythic; doctrinal/philosophical; ethical/legal; ritual/practical; and social/organizational.

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SelectSmart - Spiritual Belief System Selector

This quiz may help you decide where you fall on the spectrum of belief. The results may help you figure out which church or religious group might fit you closest.

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