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For the past two weeks or so, all we’ve been hearing about is “the Fourth.” “Oooh, the Fourth is coming!” “I can’t wait until we get a day off on the Fourth.” Well, for those of you outside American borders, “the Fourth” is more properly known as “Independence Day.” And since Kara and I couldn’t seem to get away from discussion about “the Fourth,” we felt that a quiz was certainly in order. As a heads up, none of these questions directly relate to the holiday – it’s just a celebration of all things “Fourth.”
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I hate to get nit-picky, but I’m bored at work so why not. The question about the Ten Commandments needs to be more clear that you’re using the (mostly) Protestant or Orthodox version of splitting the numbers.
The Catholic Christians divide it so “Honor your father and mother” is the fourth. In fact, I have friends whose parents would say, “Remember number four!” to them when they disobeyed as children. Wikipedia has a pretty good table of how traditions split it–apparently Lutherans see it my way too (click my name).
Interesting quiz though, thanks.
posted by catherine ann on 7-2-2008 at 10:44 am
Catherine Ann, you beat me to it. I was going to make the same point about the 10 Commandments and the Catholic tradition.
posted by Lindsey on 7-2-2008 at 12:00 pm
Confirmed Lutheren here. Yes, we follow the Catholic numbering. For all the fuss about Luther breaking away from the Catholics to make changes, there are a lot af things that he kept the same.
posted by Dianna on 7-2-2008 at 2:36 pm
Catherine Ann, thanks for pointing that out and clearing up my confusion. I was raised a Catholic and kept looking for honor your mother and father as a choice for that question. I don’t practice my faith regularly anymore, but I was pretty sure that I still knew my 10 Commandments. I never realized that different religions numbered differently. Thanks for the info.
posted by HeyBeckyJ on 7-2-2008 at 3:19 pm
Glad to see that people don’t think I’m a nag! I actually had no idea about the different numbers until a Catholic friend in college was dating a Baptist guy, and she needed someone else to vouch for her version of number four. We even dug through our various bibles to confirm.
That couple is now married, so I think they worked it out :)
posted by catherine ann on 7-2-2008 at 4:06 pm
I scored a 44%. How appropriate is that? 44!
posted by Mary on 7-2-2008 at 8:32 pm