With some exceptions it doesn’t pay well to be a religionist. They often brush up against philosophy at their most sophisticated end, and literalism is the least developed form of any belief system. It may not be supernatural, but then not all religions are. So much so that some religionists consider Secularism a religion. Even in this increasingly secular world, religions remain the driving forces behind lives. The majority of Indians today are Hindu, but Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism were also children of India. India, of course, has been the birthplace of many religions. I taught world religion maybe fifteen years ago, but I haven’t kept up with my Hinduism.) In the case of both of these religions what eventually gave them away was the place names: Germany and India. (In the case of Shaktism it took well over 100 guesses. Despite having studied religion my entire life, my thought process doesn’t include guessing words like “theology” and “worship” for important articles on Wikipedia. We’d been able to guess famous people in two dozen guesses, and countries in about the same. In our first week of play, two of the puzzles were religions: Lutheranism and Shaktism. The thing that has surprised me the most in our early on is that the trickiest ones to get right were on religions. A redacted file from the CIA, via Wikimedia Commons
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