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Test Your Faith (Take the Quiz)

Topic: MeditationBy E. Raymond RockPublished Recently added

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Score your answers as follows:

Strongly agree -- 1

Agree -- 2

Disagree -- 3

Strongly disagree -- 4

At the end of the quiz, add up your score and check the results. Good luck!

1. My God is the only true God.

2. I would defend my religion to the death.

3. Only my faith insures salvation; everyone else is lost.

4. I tolerate other religions but really feel that they must be converted.

5. It is my mission to convert the entire world.

6. God looks upon my religion as special.

7. If my children strayed from my faith, I would be devastated.

8. People must be converted for their own good even if it involves aggressive action.
9 Other religions scare me.

10. The world would be a better place if everyone believed as I do.

Now add up your score and check your results below:nn-- A score of 10 indicates that the world is going to blow up at any moment. Pray very hard!nn-- A score of between 11 and 20 means that the world might blow up at any moment, however there is a slight, very slight chance that it might not blow up until 2012. Pray hard!nn-- A score of between 21 and 30 means that there is a very good chance that the world will not blow up at all, and that we will eventually learn to love one another. Yay!nn-- A score of between 31 and 40 means that there will be peace on earth after 2012, and we will all live happily ever after! Cool.

So, how did you score? Whatever your score, be assured that everything is merely opinions, and opinions are only thoughts and words. It is only when those thoughts and words turn into actions that our fate is sealed. Therefore, always be careful of your actions.

Thanks for taking the quiz!nnnn n

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About the Author

E. Raymond Rock of Fort Myers, Florida is cofounder and principal teacher at the Southwest Florida Insight Center, http://www.SouthwestFloridaInsightCenter.com His twenty-eight years of meditation experience has taken him across four continents, including two stopovers in Thailand where he practiced in the remote northeast forests as an ordained Theravada Buddhist monk. His book, A Year to Enlightenment (Career Press/New Page Books) is now available at major bookstores and online retailers. Visit http://www.AYearToEnlightenment.comn

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