It’s Sunday, with many of us heading off to church. In more churches than we’d like, Christians will hear how evil Islam is. But here’s an experiment done by a couple of pranksters from the Dutch internet show “Dit Is Normaal” (“This is Normal”) that shows we’re not so very different.
[Islam] has been under huge scrutiny lately and is often [criticized] for being an aggressive religion… but what about Christianity? In this video we disguised a Bible as a Quran and read some of its most gruesome verses to the people. This is what they had to say.
It wasn’t a bit difficult to convince the people on the street that the violent, misogynistic, unforgiving passages were straight out of the Quran.
But what is heartening are their reactions when they learn that it’s actually from the Bible …
“WTF?!?”
“That’s just sick! Really sick!!”
… And how objective they were in assessing their shock.
TWO BONUSES …
To save you all the time and trouble, I Googled the Bible passages they used so you don’t have to – with a few surrounding verses where appropriate:
(NOTE: They were all New International Version [NIV])
◄ Leviticus 26:15 ►
http://biblehub.com/leviticus/26-15.htm
15: and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant …
◄ Leviticus 26:29 ►
http://biblehub.com/leviticus/26-29.htm
29: You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
◄ 1 Timothy 2:12 ►
http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/2-12.htm
[11: A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness.
12: But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.
[13: For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.]
◄ Deuteronomy 25:12 ►
http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/25-12.htm
[11: "If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals]
12: then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.
◄ Leviticus 20:13 ►
http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-13.htm
13: If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Second Bonus:
How well do you know your Bible? Here’s a pretty tough quiz TEST with 50 questions. Or you can skip it and just click the “Submit” button at the bottom to find the Answers.
I scored 22, and 15 is the average. How did you do?
https://ffrf.org/legacy/quiz/bquiz.php
12 Responses to “Reactions to the Bible Masquerading as the Quran”
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The hypocrisy with the right and the values they expouse has always been stunning.
Unfortunetly few give a fuck about that.
"Oh the repuglicans are near the end because of – – – – -"
My ass – stronger than ever before.
I did not take the quiz as I am not familiar with the bible nor with the quran. As for the interviewees, once they were told that the passages from the fake quran were actually from the bible, they could not believe it. At least their responses were honest and fairly intelligent. It also makes me wonder how an american US citizen would have responded as an authentic christian or as a supply-side pseudo-christian. I'll leave that decision up to you.
As I am fond of quoting myself, "All religions are flawed as are men". IMO, "Holy" books are full of crap regardless of the religious belief.
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Quiz – 33. Interesting. Those WERE hard.
Excellent video.
I scored 44.
There are only 50, so no one is going to get 55 LOL. Kudos to you!
did not take the whole quiz, but the ones I did answer were hard. Didn't do well at all.
I always listened to the sermons in Church, as my dad would test us over lunch to see if we had been listening. I also, at a young age, found it perplexing that after the sermon, people would act the same way.
There are some very rich people worldwide with organized religion, and personally, even though I still have my deep rooted beliefs, I rarely go to Church anymore. It would do well for those rich preachers to take collection money to help the poor, and make the world a better place for them.
Great post, and very interesting.
Thanks, Joanne for this post.
This only shows how Biblically illiterate people are. The pranksters, lived up to what they are – pranksters. Anyone can read the Bible and I suppose any book out of context to makes some point. Further, this experiment is pathetic in its leftist cowardice. Anytime an Islamic inspired massacre occurs Liberals align to defend them and somhow Christianity comes under scrutiny, as the limp minded attempt to make similarities, rather than confront Islam and question those within it. Oh, but the Crusades. Do people realize that the Crusades began as a reaction to Radical Islam? I doubt it.
Always good to have different viewpoints presented here; just a couple of points:
[1] I look forward to your providing the "context" that will make the cited Bible verses if not appealing, at least not appalling
[2] Please provide a citation from a reliable source showing where “Liberals align to defend them [Islamic-inspired massacres]”.
(Please note that I’m wisely refusing to engage w/ someone who actually defends the Crusades)
According to a resource that gets reviewed by others for content accuracy:
"This article is about the medieval religious military campaigns. For other uses, see Crusades (disambiguation).
Multicolored map of the 12th-century Near East
Map of the Eastern Mediterranean in 1135, showing crusader-held and neighbouring territories
The Crusades were military campaigns sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. In 1095 Byzantine Emperor Alexios I, in Constantinople, sent an ambassador to Pope Urban II in Italy pleading for military help against the growing Turkish threat. The Pope responded promptly by calling Catholic soldiers to join the First Crusade. The immediate goal was to guarantee pilgrims access to the holy sites in the Holy Land under Muslim control. His long-range goal was to reunite the Eastern and Western branches of Christendom after their split in 1054 with the pope as head of the united Church. A complex 200-year struggle ensued.
Hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholics from many different classes and nations of Western Europe became crusaders by taking a public vow and receiving plenary indulgences from the church.[1][2][3] Some crusaders were peasants hoping for Apotheosis at Jerusalem.[4] Pope Urban II claimed that anyone who participated was forgiven of their sins. In addition to demonstrating devotion to God, as stated by the Catholic Church, participation satisfied feudal obligations and provided opportunities for economic and political gain. Crusaders often pillaged the countries through which they traveled, and contrary to their promises the leaders retained much of this territory rather than returning it to the Byzantines.[2][5]
The People's Crusade prompted the murder of thousands of Jews, known as the Rhineland massacres. Constantinople was sacked during the Fourth Crusade rendering the reunification of Christendom impossible. Due to the weakening that resulted from the siege, the remnants of the Byzantine Empire finally fell to the Ottomans in 1453. The Catholic Church mounted no coherent response when their last stronghold in the region, Acre, fell in 1291.[6]
Opinions concerning the conduct of crusaders have varied from laudatory to highly critical. The impact of the crusades was profound; they reopened the Mediterranean to commerce and travel, enabling Genoa and Venice to flourish. Crusader armies would trade with the local populations while travelling, and Orthodox Byzantine emperors often organized markets for crusaders moving through their territory. The Crusades consolidated the collective identity of the Latin Church under papal leadership, and were a source of heroism, chivalry, and piety. This consequently spawned medieval romance, philosophy, and literature. However, the crusades reinforced the connection between Western Catholicism, feudalism, and militarism, which was counter to the Peace and Truce of God that Urban had promoted.[7]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
Welcome John!
You'll find very little agreement here, because your argument has little factual basis. Jihadists are not authentic Muslims. They twist Islam to conform to their own hatefil agendas. In like manner, Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians ate not authentic Christians. They twist Christianity to conform to their own hateful agendas. The problem is neither Islam, nor Christianity. It is the exterme right-wing terrorists, who commit violence in the names of both religions.
It wasn't hard to fool these Dutch people in the experiment, because most of them wouldn't know the Quran quotes from the Bible quotes anyway. As I've said many times before on this site, The Netherlands are one of the most secular societies in Europe and this influence is so strong that second or third generation immigrant Muslims are quickly adopting this pattern by becoming equally secular. The same holds for other religions. It isn't because religion is forbidden or banned or even frowned upon, it's just the way our society works. We have our share of strongly religious Catholics, but they are the most fast fading of them all, most of them calling themselves Catholic just by denomination, and we have a number of Protestant fractions who are akin to your evangelicals. Muslims are the second most religiously active group with some of the young Muslims turning extremist where there was hardly any religious observance before. But that doesn't matter, when push comes to shove, we're as biased as anybody else when it comes to Muslim violence. :-((
As you might have guessed I didn't take the quiz.