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[Warriors]

I just found this rather amusing, especially in the US where now religion is playing a bigger role in politics.

"A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths."

"Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn't know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a symbol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ."

"More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation."

I would say its biased..Why? Because of course Atheists will know more about religion than any other group. It is because they are Atheists. =P

I just find all this stuff fascinating since a nation's collective psyche is mildly amusing...although very quite sad.

Take the test and see how you do.


http://features.pewf...ious-knowledge/



You answered 12 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 80%.

[Foe]

You answered 10 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 67%.

If there was more Buddhism questions I'd be rockin that quiz.

[Sweeney]

It is because they are Atheists. =P

Actually, I would say it's why they are atheists.

[Warriors]

Actually, I would say it's why they are atheists.

But of course, but I am a lazy lazy bastard..I re-read my whole thing and I saw that but I was too lazy to change it, so thanks =D

[MsRose]

You answered 13 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 87%.

[Drakonid]

You answered 13 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 87%.

Answered 3 and 15 wrong.

[MsRose]

Is this website where you got your quotes from?

[Waser Lave]

You answered 13 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 87%.

I'd never even heard of any of the people in question 15...

[Sweeney]

My signature quote I took from a book called "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass (formerly Dr. Richard Alpert)

Wait.
Richard Alpert is/was a real person!?

[MsRose]

Was that in reference to me?

The website this test was on appears to be Pew... which is probably THE research center in America for polling.

My signature quote I took from a book called "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass (formerly Dr. Richard Alpert) It is absolutely incredibly, even 30 years after it's publication. If I had the money in my account, I would actually buy a copy just to have codexians send around haha. It's amazing. I've read my copy probably 10-15 times minimum and find something I didn't pick up originally every time.

If you weren't talking to me, disregard all that... except to pick up Be Here Now/find it at your library. It's fantastic. I truthfully keep it at my nightstand table at all times.

I was asking warriors about the original post, but then I was snooping around the website and found it. This is fairly interesting. I wish it was worldwide though and not just in the US.

Here is another interesting poll. Although I could have guessed that already.

[Warriors]

Yea its just a regular AP page..but from Yahoo..Here is the link, not much there though..

http://news.yahoo.co...s_literacy_poll

[Noitidart]

Connection timed out >_< I think my net is busted

[Coilvect]

No its the site itself. Seems to have a lot of traffic.

[flashraven]

Connection timed out >_< I think my net is busted

Mine too, keeps hanging

[Faval]

You answered 12 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 80%.

I've never heard of some of these people. I also don't have a religion

[Gee]

15 out of 15.
I wanted to study theology in university at one point haha.

[luvsmyncis]

14 out of 15. WTF @ number 15. A pox on number 15!!

[jcrdude]

14 out of 15. WTF @ number 15. A pox on number 15!!

You answered 13 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 87%.

And... Spoiler alert about the damned "First Great Awakening"

Spoiler

The First Great Awakening (or The Great Awakening) was a religious revitalization movement that swept the Atlantic world, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American religion. It resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of personal guilt and of their need of salvation by Christ. Pulling away from ritual and ceremony, the Great Awakening made religion intensely personal to the average person by fostering a deep sense of spiritual guilt and redemption, and by encouraging introspection and a commitment to a new standard of personal morality.

The wiki page is actually pretty interesting... even if it is a bit disturbing seeing the beginning of the most modern puritanical movement

[iloveorange]

You answered 7 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 47%.

well, off to bible study.

[Gee]

You answered 7 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 47%.

well, off to bible study.

I'm sure you don't need to study a bible to get those questions right, considering some of the religions mentioned there aren't even dominantly Christian in the first place.

[Ozonewolf]

13/15

And I guess I continue the trend of getting more than half right and being Atheist.

[stirlingL]

12/15 also..

[Trichomes]

You answered 14 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 93%

[Sweeney]

Funny. I thought this was a debate topic, not a "post your inane test results with no comment" thread.

[luvsmyncis]

Funny. I thought this was a debate topic, not a "post your inane test results with no comment" thread.

Are you mad about number 15 as well? It's okay. *pat pat* No one gives a flying fuck who Johnathan Edwards was.