Major World Religions

This quiz was so good!!! Best quiz I've taken in a while!

interesting quiz..

I believe Mormonism would fall under Protestantism

Is Mormonism really considered a type of Protestant Christianity or rather a loony cult like Scientology?

One vote here for cult. Just because you say something about Jesus in it doesn't make it Christianity.

Mormonism is not a protestant denomination and it most certainly is not a "cult" (as that term is widely used). Incidentally, I find it interesting when another Christian ridicules Mormon beliefs. Remember, to non-Christians your beliefs sound just as ridiculous as Mormon beliefs seem to you. God creating the earth in six days, Moses receiving stone tablets from God, Jonah being swallowed by a whale (fish?) and living to tell about it, the tower of babel, parting the Red Sea and Jesus's miracles (just to name a few) require more than a little bit of faith.

The difference between loony cult and major world religion is measured mostly in the number of adherents. As to whether Mormonism counts as Protestantism or not... on the one hand it did come from the Protestant tradition (i.e. Western Christian tradition that denied the authority of Rome). As did the Jehovah's Witnesses. Both religions were started in the United States by people of Protestant Christian backgrounds. On the other hand, the Protestant Reformation happened a long time before Joseph Smith dictated the Book of Mormon, in a different place at a different time under very different circumstances, and the fact that Smith received a completely new revelation and wrote a whole new book I think places Mormonism further from mainstream Christianity than any of the Protestant branches which were more about minor changes in church bureaucracy and procedure. Mormonism is much closer to, say, Islam, than it is to Calvinism or Lutheranism. Smith had a lot in common with Muhammad.

I believe that the site used for the data (adherents.com) groups Mormons together with Christians to get the 2.1 billion figure, but does not group Mormons in with Protestants. If you add up Catholics, Protestants, and Eastern Orthodox you do not get 2.1 billion. You end up with a number that is still several hundred million short. I'm guessing this is where the LDS Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, Amish, Ethiopians, etc etc come in.

The Jediism has around 100'000 followers. Not enough for this quiz I guess.

Only 12 right. And I couldn't figure out how to spell Confucianism. Dammit.

Don't swear!

That's hardly a swear word, and he spelt it wrong any way.

It was a joke. 'Damning' something is an ollllld swear, and since this is a religious quiz...

Yes 15!!!

Couldn't spell Zoroastrianism for the life of me, great quiz!

Agree with Nikki...one of the best quizzes in a while! Awesome job!

Really well made quiz, good job! It makes my quiz (Which I recommend you all try, "Countries whose capital isn't the largest city) look pretty average.

Too easy -- and I'm an atheist (thank god).

Atheists know more about religion than religious people do. Which is why they are atheists.

I think its fairly safe to say that a person's religion is tied to where they are born..Hindi being mainly India and the surrounding countries (Sheik in northern India), Buddism in Tibet and China, Muslims in the Middle East and Northern Africa, and Christianity basically everywhere else.... My point being that every one of these religions thinks they are the only true religion. One might think that your eternal salvation might not be so trivial as to be determined by where you are born. All these prophets are complete BS and most people are just hedging there bet by pretending to have real faith so that if in the unlikely event that there is an afterlife that they get to take part. That's more blasphamous than being atheist or agnostic if you ask me...That and poor people are more likely to be religous because life sucks and they will get to live the good life when they die. Jesus was a magician Mohamed was aparently camara shy and Budda is the fat guy at the party smoking opium

I'm by no means well off, so anyone that gets their panties in a knot over what I just said don't think I'm some spoiled rich kid...I just think religion needs to fade to the backround and not dictate the actions of entire regions. At this point instead of keeping people in line with societal norms like it did back 1500 years ago it is causing countries to go to war and supress their people. It hurts more than it helps at this point

good quiz! but could you add "zoroatrianism"? I forgot the S and couldnt get it :\

Communism? Wut?

most people guessed Islam. hmmmmmmmmm

Spent most of the time trying to spell zora... zore... err...

Can't believe I forgot Jainism.. and I missed the branches of Buddhism because I didn't know how to spell them. Also, if you accept the name of an adherent for all other religions (i.e. you take Christian for Christianity, Sunni for "Sunnism", Hindu for Hinduism etc), then you ought to accept Shiia I think. I got it but had to fiddle for a second.

fun to play