How much do you know about religion?
A ran across a blog written by Benjamin Radford. According to a recent test conducted by "The Pew Forum" has shown that Atheists and Jews seem to know more about religion than others.
"The researchers polled nearly 3,500 Americans and asked them 32 basic questions about world religions, their texts, main figures, and tenets. Most respondents got about half the questions wrong. For example, 45 percent of Catholics polled did not know that the Catholic church teaches that the consecrated bread and wine in holy communion are said to actually and literally become the body and blood of Christ. About as many Americans did not know that the Dalai Lama is Buddhist."
So I decided to take the quiz to see where I stand. The questions are difficult, in the sense that if you don't know it, you just don't know it. It makes the quiz harder to pass without previously knowing the answer.
Hurray! I scored higher than 80% of the public!
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Comment by Morgan Matthew on March 21, 2011 at 8:38pm -
Nice! I got 13 out of 15 right. Thanks for sharing :]
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Comment by Jessica Cox on March 21, 2011 at 8:40pm -
Interesting!! I got 73%
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Comment by scLovely on March 21, 2011 at 9:00pm -
I also got 11 out of 15!
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Comment by Michael C. on March 21, 2011 at 9:07pm -
Wow I got 13 out of 15! I think atheists definately put more thought into religion than the faithful do, that's why we are atheists!
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Comment by James on March 21, 2011 at 9:38pm -
13 out of 15 :)
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Comment by Jeremy S on March 21, 2011 at 9:50pm -
12 out of 15. I think it's biased against theist though. Lol. Most thiests I know are willfully ignorant of other religions and quite a few refuse to read the bible straight through. Especially after I bring up the inconsistencies and maliciousness of the god they worship. I guess it's better to keep faith by any means necessary.
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Comment by Isaac on March 21, 2011 at 10:31pm -
13 out of 15. The ones that I got wrong were the ones that had to do with the Protestant Reformation and the First Great Awakening.
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Comment by Adam Weber on March 21, 2011 at 10:38pm -
93%!
Either that was divine intervention, or I knew all of those questions but one :P.
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Comment by Sean Fraser on March 21, 2011 at 11:12pm -
80%. Missed the question about Jewish Sabbath (forgot their days begin at sundown!), the nirvana question, and the last question about the first great awakening.
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Comment by Ethan Levy on March 21, 2011 at 11:33pm -
11 of 15 not bad..
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