According to a report co-authored by some British parliamentarians and published this month, interviewers in Britain often challenge self-described Christian applicants by giving them general-knowledge tests. These are relatively hard ones: How many books are there in the Bible? Can you list the ten commandments? Can you name the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ?
There are people with university degrees in religious studies who might stumble over those questions. But the parliamentarians’ point was not merely that the asylum-seekers were asked too much; it was more that the questioners knew too little and took the simple option of subjecting the applicants to a quiz (the sort one could devise after a quick internet search) instead of probing their feelings in a more searching way.
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