"religious studies"

There's only one Return, okay, and it ain't of the King, it's of the Jedi!
—Randal (Dante's vulgar friend), Clerks II

If you've never seen the LOTR-versus-Star Wars battle from Clerks II, watch it here.

Trinitarian Christians will quibble with the wording of the quiz/test question, which says parts when referring to the Persons of the Trinity. A part is a fraction or a portion of something, but the whole point of the mystery of the Trinity is that each Person of it (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) is fully God—100%, not 33.333...%. And those three Persons together are a single, 100% God. So you, being a logical person and a nonbeliever, will inevitably ask, "How the hell can 100% + 100% + 100% add up to 100%? That makes no sense!" And that's why it's considered a mystery, and no number of "triangle" analogies (three vertices, one figure!) can metaphorically spell that out: Either you believe or you don't.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.

—1 Corinthians 1:18-23

And whether the above question about the Trinity qualifies as a "religious studies" question is also open to debate. While theology deals with systematic discourse about the divine—the unraveling of scriptural and doctrinal and experiential implications—religious studies is a soft science along the lines of other soft sciences like psychology, sociology, and anthropology. To engage in religious studies isn't to do theology; this very interdisciplinary field focuses, instead, on the question of what religion is. Do all religions have gods or a higher power? How about prayer? Special buildings? Special times of the year? Are they all communitarian, or are some religions focused on individuals and individual praxis? Do they all see history as linear, cyclical, and helical? Do they all have an eschatology (a concept of the "end times" or a Teilhard-style "Omega Point")? Is there a catch-all definition of religion that can include all known religions (and not just the major ones)? With questions like these, can the question in the above photo be a religious-studies question? I think not. I'd say it's a theological question, the answer to which comes from doctrines that you either believe or disbelieve.

Of course, it might be a religious-studies question if other questions on the exam ask similar things about other religions—about Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Jainism, etc. Look at the questions on my religion quiz to get an idea of what those might be.