What Religion is the Best Religion? .......Consumer report

[Ibtisam]

Religion has been with man for thousands of years, but with so many to choose from how do you know which one is right for you? We did a study on major religions to provide the answers.

 

You’ll find religion providing these basic essentials:

Explanation of what happens when we die

Narration of universal origin

Understanding of what is intrinsically good and bad

 

We tested eight beliefs Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, along with Atheism, Hinduism, and Satanism to determine which one is best for you..

 

 

HOW WE SCORED

 

We tested eight beliefs Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, along with Atheism, Hinduism, and Satanism to determine which one is best for you. We used four major test criteria:

 

Ritualistic

We determined how much ritualism goes into religion. The less rituals that are involved the less burden it is on a person and the less work that had to be performed.

 

Sin threshold

This determines how much you can get away with before it is considered a sin. The greater the sin threshold the more leeway you have, and the more free you are to do as you please without repenting.

 

Penalty for sin

This is the price that you are forced to pay for your sins. The higher the penalty for sin, the more burdensome the repentance process is.

 

Ease of getting in heaven

This is how much work you are responsible for performing before you are allowed to reach nirvana. With most of the religions this was a hazy area. Majority of the information we were able to gather came from scriptures as well as extensive interviewing of theologians.

 

How We Tested

Since most people have some sort of religious predisposition, in order for our investigation to be unbiased we had to use impartial participants. For our independent test, we brought in 37 aborigines from the Brazilian rain forest tribe of Raoni. With a crude understanding of god and the universe, we explained each religion to them and asked them to try it out for a 4 week period. All the participants had a chance to try out all eight religions for a 4 week time frame and rank them based on their findings.

 

Our Findings

 

In our tests we have found that most of the aborigines preferred Christian religion based on its ease of understanding. With Catholicism being a close second, followed by other religions. Here are the findings.

 

Christianity

This is by far was the most popular belief among the aborigines people, with more than 2 out 4 preferring it. The concept of a loving god, was easy to understand, since it bore some semblance to their god “Khatimi†, the god of 'big shiny things'. This belief was so favorable among the tribesmen that a few even made a small donation to the Robert Schuller Ministries at the end of their two weeks trial.

 

 

 

Two of our panel testers

Zeha and Rhadi who

we named Ben and Gary.

 

Catholicism

A close second, it nearly did as good as Christianity, if it not for a few confusing ritualistic beliefs. The tribesmen enjoyed the Pope, after we were able to show them rare footage of His Holiness giving Easter Mass in the Aboriginal language of drum thumping.

 

Hinduism

This was a distant third. Most tribesmen had a difficult time comprehending the perpetual birth and rebirth concept. Majority of the tribesmen also found the movie Gandhi to be way too long, with Candice Bergen’s performance substandard and trite.

 

 

 

Our panelists attempting to play with a Dreidel during their evaluation of Judaism.

 

Buddhism

Buddhism did not fare well among the tribesmen. Most found the notion of Buddha as god, not to be credible. With many questioning how can a god control the world, when he can’t even control his weight? Most of the tribesmen preferred Jesus who had a slender and slightly muscular body.

 

Muslim

Although not very popular it did appeal to a few of the aborigines. Ironically the few tribesmen who chose the Muslim religion soon got into an altercation with those who preferred Judaism. The dispute was over the territorial right of the grass hut in which they were living. The tribesmen who choose the Muslim religion claimed they were in it first.

 

Judaism

This religion was very confusing to most. From proper attire, ritualistic conduct, and Kosher food, left most of the aborigines baffled and perplexed. With one of the tribesmen eating a Dreidel out of confusion.

 

Satanism

Chosen only by few. Although many of the tribesmen could relate to sacrificing of animals to a higher power. This is due to a common practice of sacrificing small rodents to their evil god “Khulli†the god of the 'itchy rash.’

 

 

 

Here our supervisor is trying to make Hapti grasp the concept

of Holy Communion.

 

Atheism

Although ranking high on our scholarly section, this belief was not preferred by any of our testers. The concept of life being meaningless and with no hope of an after life, left most of the tribesmen desponded and depressed, with a few actually needing short term therapy, after the four week trial.

 

Recommendations

If you are looking for a good over all religion you can't go wrong with Christianity. It ranked the highest among the tribesmen and very high in our scholarly test. If you prefer no ritualistic practices bestowed upon you, atheism is the right belief for you, even though it ranked very low in our independent tests. If you prefer a lot of rules and customs take a look into Judaism, or the Muslim religions. The chart should provide more information for you :rolleyes:

 

Final Results

 

 

 

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[Socod_badne]

What Religion is the Best religion? .......Consumer report

 

Religion of Ibtishaam.

[Khayr]

Is this Satire?

[Ibtisam]

^^ no, you can put your sword away long enough to read it fully. it is a report!! and the conclusion of a study, don't try and read too much into everything. sometimes there are no hidden agendas and no one is ridiculing anything.

 

cheers

 

SB: really now, God forbid anyone is taht lost

[Socod_badne]

What's satire?

 

We're just expressing heart-felt opinions. This is Islam love-fest, we love Islam. Please step outside, you're unwanted here.

[RendezVous]

Read this

 

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Main

 

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Other Statistics

 

and

 

Allah Akbar

 

CNN

 

SOL

 

I stop???????

 

There are many people against Islam but still ISLAM is rapidly growing...

[Ibtisam]

^^ and here i was thinking you were a dictionary.

he wants to chop off your head for making fun of....

 

filp; how i'm against ISlam? did you even read the post :rolleyes:

[Socod_badne]

Originally posted by The Rendezvous:

There are many people against Islam

Really? Why?

[Khayr]

Originally posted by ibtisam:

^^ no, you can put your sword away long enough to read it fully. it is a report!! and the conclusion of a study, don't try and read too much into everything. sometimes there are no hidden agendas and no one is ridiculing anything.

 

cheers

 

SB: really now, God forbid anyone is taht lost

Proof that it is satirical in nature

Catholicism

A close second, it nearly did as good as Christianity, if it not for a few confusing ritualistic beliefs.

The tribesmen enjoyed the Pope, after we were able to show them rare footage of His Holiness giving Easter Mass in the Aboriginal language of drum thumping.

 

Hinduism

This was a distant third. Most tribesmen had a difficult time comprehending the perpetual birth and rebirth concept.

Majority of the tribesmen also found the movie Gandhi to be way too long, with Candice Bergen’s performance substandard and trite.

 

 

Our panelists attempting to play with a Dreidel during their evaluation of Judaism.

 

Buddhism

Buddhism did not fare well among the tribesmen. Most found the notion of Buddha as god, not to be credible. With many questioning how can a god control the world, when he can’t even control his weight? Most of the tribesmen preferred Jesus who had a slender and slightly muscular body.

 

Muslim

Although not very popular it did appeal to a few of the aborigines. Ironically the few tribesmen who chose the Muslim religion soon got into an altercation with those who preferred Judaism. The dispute was over the territorial right of the grass hut in which they were living. The tribesmen who choose the Muslim religion claimed they were in it first.

 

Judaism

This religion was very confusing to most. From proper attire, ritualistic conduct, and Kosher food, left most of the aborigines baffled and perplexed. With one of the tribesmen eating a Dreidel out of confusion.

 

[Ibtisam]

^^^ as i said take a chill pill and relax your little self. you have just quoted the findings. nothing more nothing less. is it the fact that it is not proi Islam that bothers you?

[Ibtisam]

DP

[RendezVous]

Originally posted by ibtisam:

^^ and here i was thinking you were a dictionary.

he wants to chop off your head for making fun of....

 

filp; how i'm against ISlam? did you even read the post :rolleyes:

Sister, I didn't say you are....Read posts properly :cool: :cool:

 

My Nick is Flipmode Not filp Or Philip or Whatever :cool:

[Ibtisam]

i repeat Read the thread properly, I know you wanted the conclusion to be that everyone liked Islam best and found it the easiest to follow. But the result went the other way, and that’s does not take anything away from Islam, maybe it was not explained or most probably as the findings suggest people liked religions which did not impose on them a whole new way of life, (i.e. ones that do not change your life or have an impact on it) it is therefore logical that Islam, Judaism will get the lowest results, as they govern your whole daily life, from what you wear, to eating and everything else.

 

As for your name if you did not ask in a such rude way flip, i might add the mode!!

 

cheers

[N.O.R.F]

So a bunch of bushmen determine what religion is right?

 

In other words, Christianity is the best religion for a lazy person who wants his/her sins to be forgiven without much repentence so they can do it again, and again and again.

 

:rolleyes:

 

ps does Judaism allow converts? I dont think so

[Gabbal]

For non-believers, they seem a little too attached to Islam. Matter of fact, one would call it downright obsessed..