RE: This is unexpected.
May 13, 2011 at 5:57 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2011 at 6:09 pm by Zenith.)
(May 9, 2011 at 9:32 pm)R-e-n-n-a-t Wrote: I just realized I'm a satanist, as defined by religioustolerance.com.
By the way, I've remembered some things...
1. There was a kind of online test that showed you what religion represents you best (which actually said, "which is your religion"). Forgot the name of the site. Anyway, it was funnily made: perhaps any ordinary man had Satanism on one of the first 3 religions that represent him most. If you were an atheist or seemed to say atheistic things, the first (the religion that represented you most) was Satanism. I believe the test had stupid, or at least not well thought questions and answers (you had to check some checkboxes to questions).
2. religioustolerance.com remembers me of some interesting, quite unpleasant things: it claims to be objective towards religions (as far as I remember), but it is not:
a) Wicca and things like sorcery and Satanism are regarded as something "good" and "nice". I sincerely regard wicca and sorcery as something foolish, especially when I imagine a man bowing down to the image of the Horned God (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horned_God.JPG). While Satanism is not at all a religion asking its adepts to be "good" and "fair" and "honest".
b) The topics regarding Islam seemed to have been written (at least when I was looking on that site) by muslims: Muslims and only muslims could have written "(pbuh)" after mentioning a prophet, like Muhammud (e.g. "Muhammud (pbuh) ...."). pbuh means "peace be upon him". Now what I've found about Islam from there was nothing shocking or something (if it was written by muslims, it is quite obvious) so it was shown as something pretty 'good'.
c) The things that were written for Christianity were, funnily, from Zeitgeist and The Da Vinci Code (they were written as "resources" or something in the bottom of the page). Funnily, because the Da Vinci Code was a very subjective story that tried to prove how "the real Jesus" was (i.e. they said that Jesus existed), while Zeitgeist claimed that Jesus never existed, but that he was only a fairytale! (in other words, the resources used were contradicting each other, but were used as absolute truths that complete each other). And, the author of the topics of Christianity didn't seem to be a christian.
Anyway, I believe that a site that shows correctly and objectively all religions is quite impossible. And if one would try to do that, the "fair" way would be to call a representative of every religion and denomination to show the basics of his religion. Anyway, the problem is that you'll never get to know how a religion actually is, if you're looking on a site that deals with "religions". Besides of the fact that those representative would never represent everyone's beliefs. The only possible way to know a religion is to study it yourself (read their holy books, speak with adherents of that religion, etc.).