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Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Quiz: Who Said it--Rick Santorum or Ayatollah Khamenei?

Given Rick Santorum's recent statements opposing women's rights--especially women's reproductive rights-- his homophobia, his denial of global warming, his opposition to university education, his religious intolerance and--particularly--his statement that, when he heard President Kennedy's 1960 speech supporting the "absolute separation of church and state, Santorum "wanted to throw up," it seems to a lot of people--including me--that the kind of government Rick Santorum appears to want is not really a democracy-- which is rule by the people--but a theocracy--which is rule by religion.
Now there's one famous theocracy in the world, the Islamic Republic of Iran.  A well-known American magazine recently published a quiz in which readers were given a series of 8 quotations and asked to choose who made those statements, Rick Santorum or Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
I've reproduced the questions below, so that you can take the quiz, too. [I'll post the answers on this thread later.]
Who said it--Rick or the Grand Ayatollah?
1. We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth.
2. We believe in democracy and we also believe in freedom, but we do not believe in liberal democracy.
3. Although the literal meaning of socialism is equitable distribution of wealth, it is associated with other concepts which we hate. Over time, socialism has come to be associated with certain things in society that are unacceptable to us.
4. The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.
5. This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war.
6. This is a war between two willpowers: the willpower of the people and the willpower of their enemies.
7. Go back and read what the sirens did once you arrived on that island.… They devour you. They destroy you. They consume you.
8.The Iranian people's hatred for America is profound.
Jagor


Update March 6, 2012

Well, it wasn't as easy as you expected, was it?  It's not that easy to distinguish between a Roman Catholic religious fanatic and a Shi'ite Muslim religious fanatic, is it?

So, here's a link to the original article and the answer key.

Jagor

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