Posted on 09/28/2010 8:54:29 AM PDT by MNDude
And how do you compare with the average American? Here's your chance to find out.
Take our short, 15-question quiz, and see how you do in comparison with 3,412 randomly sampled adults who were asked these and other questions in the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey. This national poll was conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life from May 19 through June 6, 2010, on landlines and cell phones, in English and Spanish.
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100%
Yeah, number 15 and the Shiva question did me in. Number 15 is a history question.
Web site response was very slow but Yeah, I got them all. I’d love to see how a breakdown of recent college graduates answered as broken out into Ivy League through State Univ. through to private Religious. Given the multiculturalism bent of current academia, I’m wondering how well the Ivys would do.
Right on! I can score a hundred on a hundred tests but it won’t guarantee that I won’t go to hell.
The idea was to suggest that all non-Christians are intellectuals I think. So your comparison is apt. I’ll stack any 10 Christians against any 10 atheists any day.
For me this was a history question .. Oppenheimer's quote at the 1st Atom Bomb at the Trinity Site; "I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds" and attributed to Shiva in the Bhagavad Gita.
Same here. I missed the history question (15) and the Shiva question.
The Sabbath one was tricky along the lines of “is midnight the beginning of one day or the end of another”. If it had simply said “which day is the Sabbath”, the answer would have been much more obvious.
http://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/holy-days/when-does-the-sabbath-begin.html
Who told you that?
Baptist, going to Catholic Mass (w/spouse), played softball on Lutheran team. All my bases are covered. Missed the second question about reading the bible in the classroom due to my connection timing out and thinking when it came back, I was answering the previous question about school prayer (wording was similar). If I’d have paid attention, I would have gotten 100%.
You don’t know your bible history. At all.
Jews reckon the end of a day and thus the beginning of the new day (ritually speaking) is when the sun goes down. Catholics have maintained this practice.
Got a 93. Missed “nirvana.” I thought “nirvana” was a Hindu concept, not Buddhist. My bad.
Me, too, but it doesn’t bother me much. Not something I really feel like stressing over.
15 out of 15
For me it seems that even if you were never formally taught all of the facts, just living day to day and keeping yourself informed would tend to expose you to many of the correct answers.
It’s not really about religion..
It’s more of a cultural over view in the area of religion.
Yep 100%. I agree very easy.
I guess I knew more than I thought I knew...
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“You answered 15 out of 15 questions correctly for a score of 100%.”
I wonder what the average journalist scored on this. 10% correct?
100%. I rock.
Again.
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