Which religion is the right one for you?

My friend Dr R sent me a link to a new quiz at the quizfarm, "Which religion is the right one for you?" it was relatively easier than the previous one.

Does it matter what is your religion?

Let me see:

When I was a kid the very first question other kids would ask you is: what is your religion? They might not ask it in a direct way, they might pull up some old tricks to know your religion! What next, nothing, they just want to know, nothing further! I always thought that was weird.
That was not the case in college; it was weirder. I was in a college where most students were Christians, well at least that what it seemed like to me, I can't confirm this until I return to my yearbook and make some statistics. Any way, they would be OK with me (my name has no religious inferences) for the first few days until Oops, she is a Muslim, and it's have a nice time somewhere else! Of course they don't say it directly but I can tell you how many different ways you can get the message of "you are not welcome in this group anymore". Only one deviated, she used to go on and talk to me, exchange notes, ...etc, but then she stopped as she felt/or was told that she was not supposed to do so.
Well of course I found myself another group to hang out with but that was the most extreme thing I have ever seen in my life. For, I had Christian friends from elementary until high school, they never "dumped" someone because he wasn't of the same religion, similarly for Muslim friends at school.

Then I came to USA, I had more experiences with religion.

I was a Muslim in a State that is in the Bible belt. Let me explain to you what the "Bible belt" is: "an area including a number of Midwestern and southern states in the United States in which fervent Evangelical Protestantism is a pervasive part of the culture" (wikipedia) or another definition "The term Bible Belt refers to states in the Deep South plus Texas where fundamentalist and evangelical Christianity is taken very seriously."(life in USA). In simple words, that means, these are religious people that try to follow the Bible as far as possible, with a little bit over doing it (at least in my opinion). For instance, one of the things I noticed is, when you open the TV you have at least four channels (or may be more on Cable TV) talking about Christ, Salvation, Bible stories, Words of God,...... etc. No other religion is on TV; most programs are somehow related to religion. I first thought, "well may be that's normal, I mean I come from a Muslim country, we have religious programs too and some religious channels on Cable". I was surprised as I have been to the other States before (mainly in the North and East coast) and there wasn't much emphasis on religion. So, I talked to an American friend, she's from a Northern state, she said religion is more emphasized here in Tennessee! Even an Egyptian Christian friend of mine, when I was surprised how conservative people are in this state, simply said, "welcome to the Bible belt”. Wow it's not only me noticing. Those people take religion pretty seriously.

Another totally different but really interesting experience was my "no religion" roommates. First I thought they don't believe in God, so what, may be they'll figure it out later. But I was wrong they believe in a Higher Power, and in many different stories that I learn from them gradually day by day. It's amazing; they reject all religions, yet they can take something from each religion. I really admire them. The funny thing is, I heard more than once from different people, "why don't you try to convert them into Islam?" I was shocked, these are human beings with free will, and are all adults, they can choose their own way of living, and above all their religion. You don't recruit people to religion, it's God who will guide them to Himself, or as it's best said in Quran, (translation of the meaning in English: you can try to guide people to God, but it's only God who will help them to follow Him.)

Now, after my long talk, What do you think? Does the religion of other people matters that much to you?

Ps. My quiz results were:

You scored as Islam. Your beliefs are most similar to those of Islam. Do more research on Islam and possibly consider taking the shahadah and officially becoming a Muslim, if you aren't already. Despite the actions of some - who go against the teachings of Islam - Islam is a religion of peace; the word "islam" means "peace through submission to God." "Muslim" means "one who submits to God." Islam is the third of the three Abrahamic faiths, and it shares much with Judaism in Christianity; its differences are the acceptance of Muhammad as the last and final prophet, and the oneness of God - in other words, that Jesus, though he was a revered prophet, was not in fact God, and only one God exists. Apparently the Taliban could not read (though their name means "students"), because the Qur'an states that men and women are equal as believers, and that all believers should be educated and seek knowledge. Modesty in dress and behavior is required in Islam for both men and women to preserve the values of society and move the emphasis from superificial appearance to intelligence, knowledge, and God. Islam 88% Judaism 58% Buddhism 54% Paganism 54% Satanism 42% agnosticism 33% Christianity 29% Hinduism 4% atheism 4% Which religion is the right one for you? (new version) created with QuizFarm.com

You can try for yourself this quiz at the link above.

Funny, relative things in life!

Although I have just read about 7 or more posts(R,AZ, Ebles,Socrates, alfares, wa7ed mn masr, Mohammed Gamal) on women "rights",etc...and I am a woman but i am not going to talk about it, just because this is one of the many relative things in life, are you a minority, are your rights taken away?... for me those are relative things, just like my old friend form college used to go on for hours on the phone before exams, we'll never make it, the professors children (sons and daughters as i like to call them as the old British series on the Egyptian T.V). She never attempted to get high grades, she thought what's the use, they get highest grades for both oral and practical exams. I didn't care, so what they get higher grades, but suddenly one year i got higher grades than the daughter of the head of the department in his syllabus (of course he didn't put the exam questions but she got ALL the help they/his collgues and students could give, but hehe i got higher grades, so what again i said, i just study, higher or lower grades doesn't matter.
Very long introduction, any way that was THE point i wanted to say, it's how you feel about things in life that matters, i could have always kept in mind that i'll never get higher grades because i am not the daughter of a professor in my college but i didn't care, so it was no more an issue for me.
You can argue saying "that's not true for everything in life" but still things are relative, if you are interested read Relativism
Finally my solgan in life (for the current moment :) )
Life is a state of mind.