Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says

[Mattie Jo]

i didn't even see a questionaire.

[TRANSPONDER]

Yep, under the second para. Mind, the quiz is not so much test you religious knowledge but has a polemic function in showing that we have preconceptions about religion (Christianity is loving, Hinduism is life - respecting, islam is harsh and violent)

Point taken. I was surprised to find that the suicide vest and women sicide bombers were first begun by the Sri lanka Tamils. Maybe...but it is Islam that has made the practice particularly its own just as crucifixion was invented by the Persians but it was Rome that took it up with such enthusiasm.

However...

The first Black Tiger was Vallipuram Vasanthan, who drove a small truck laden with explosives into a Sri Lanka Army camp in Nelliady, Jaffna peninsula, on 5 July 1987, killing himself and between 39-100 Sri Lankan soldiers. Immediately after the attack, regular LTTE cadres followed up, overwhelming the stunned SLA soldiers. This single attack was hugely effective, and proved vital in the dismantling the Sri Lankan Army’s operation – dubbed Operation Liberation.[2] (Wiki)

but

Suicide operations caught the Arab imagination in 1983, when Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim guerrillas trained by Iran blew up 241 American servicemen and 58 French paratroops in a simultaneous operation in Beirut.
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/s37.html

So it seems that Islam can claim to have invented the suicide bomber by five years precedence and maybe someone who posts religious quizzes in order to argue a point should check his facts first.

[Farrowlane]

I got 14 out of 15. I didn't know that a teacher could read from the bible as an example of literature. I'm agnostic and I'm not going to tell you why I shouldn't have missed that one.