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.
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 .
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".
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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)
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 :(
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
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
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!
However, Mecca and Medina should not be acceptable answers based on the clue provided.
I wouldn't add them either, but I would put in Masjid
and yes i've been to mecca during hajj, not like this is a requirement to make this statement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caelus