A company which asked questions about religious beliefs in a test for people wanting to become security guards at the Olympic Games has agreed to to drop the questions after the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith complained that the questions were offensive to some and irrelevant to the job. Applicants were asked five questions, among 160 in test, including whether they believed in the Second Coming of Christ and whether “everything is turning out just like the Prophets in the Bible said it would.” The security firm which propared the questionnaire signed the queries were part of a widely accepted screening process to determine patterns of thinking.
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