Posted on 09/29/2010 3:05:05 PM PDT by zippythepinhead
Atheists and agnostics know more about major world religions than many people of faith, while Mormons can answer more Bible questions than their Catholic and mainline Protestant counterparts.
Those are among the somewhat startling conclusions about religious literacy in America the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life drew after surveying 3,412 Americans.
Some of the multiple-choice questions were relatively simple: Where was Jesus born and who led the exodus from Egypt? What religion was Mother Teresa, what day does the Jewish Sabbath begin and what is the name of Islam’s holy book?
Others were more obscure: What is Indonesia’s dominant religion? Which Christians teach that salvation comes through faith alone?
About half the Protestants (53 percent) couldn’t correctly identify Martin Luther as the person whose writings and actions inspired the Protestant Reformation. Fewer than half of Americans (47 percent) knew the Dalai Lama is Buddhist and only 38 percent correctly associated Vishnu and Shiva with Hinduism.
John Morehead, director of the Western Institute for Intercultural Studies in Salt Lake City, had already noted religious illiteracy in the general population as well as in the evangelical community. But he did not expect Mormons to top them in their biblical fluency.
“Mormons tend to emphasize Mormon scriptures like the Book of Mormon rather than the Bible in their devotional life,” Morehead said in an e-mail.
Even some LDS scholars were surprised to find Mormons at the top.
(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...
You’ve never studied your Prophets then?
And they give away a few million here and there...and crow about it?
Do you realize how many million goes into a billion? 1,000 million equal's a billion...just to help you out.
Explain to me...the huge ranches, the malls, the hotels, motels, the outlandish temples, the business's....
EXPLAIN THAT!!!
Or you lied about that?
eh?
Please.....you words/posts are recorded.
But, would not what you have commented on...make you a religious bigot?
LOL Pinglist
“Do you realize how many million goes into a billion? 1,000 million equal’s a billion...just to help you out. “
Please! The LDS leaders alone have the right to tell members mathematical facts.
Once the leaders have spoken, the math is done!
On questions about Christianity – including a battery of questions about the Bible – Mormons (7.9 out of 12 right on average) and white evangelical Protestants (7.3 correct on average) show the highest levels of knowledge.
Jews and atheists/agnostics stand out for their knowledge of other world religions, including Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism; out of 11 such questions on the survey, Jews answer 7.9 correctly (nearly three better than the national average) and atheists/agnostics answer 7.5 correctly (2.5 better than the national average).
Atheists/agnostics and Jews also do particularly well on questions about the role of religion in public life, including a question about what the U.S. Constitution says about religion.
The quiz is available here: U.S. Religious Knowledge Quiz
I took it the other night, it is easy, but it also is not about Christianity, it is a quiz with no real purpose, yet it is being used as if it were a major study, with deep, meaningful results and implications.
LOL. Don't get too worked up about it. The headline is misleading. The survey was about general religious knowledge, not the Bible.
I thought you had sworn off being a “defender”...
Or you lied about that?
eh?
Please.....you words/posts are recorded.
lol
I didn’t engage in any anti-Mormon propaganda discussion. Just made a statement.
What if I had changed my mind? I haven’t mind you but who made you boss? And would that really be a lie? And if it were, are you saying Mormons have to be perfect to be Mormons?
You have nothing but regurgitated blabber and no points at all. This thread is full of it. And you know what? These regurgitated non points are all addressed as I always say, at the links provided.
I invite all to seek the truth about whatever “issue” is being “revealed” or “exposed”. I promise that if you do so with honest intent, the “ahah” moments you will have will be many and frequent. You will start to recognize the tactics employed to cleverly twist and attack and will likely chuckle the more you see. There’s nothing new here. It’s all been addressed many times before.
Here’s a few links to get your started from a different viewpoint. I have found that the vast majority of the “issues” brought up can be found and addressed at http://www.fairlds.org/ but here’s more:
http://scriptures.lds.org/
http://www.lds.org
http://www.fairlds.org/
http://www.mormonwiki.com/Main_Page
http://www.lightplanet.com/response/index.html
http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDS_Intro.shtml
http://www.answeringantimormons.com/index.htm
http://promormon.blogspot.com/
Now you will likely notice the “you never address our points” posts pop up as usual. All after providing the answers just as you have here. Will you wear blinders too? Seek truth. Find out for yourself.
LOL, there is more than "doubt" there is unanimity, Mormons are not Christians, and all Christian churches agree on that.
Greek Orthodox, Protestants, the Catholic church, as you know they have disagreements, and "doubts" between each other, but one thing that they all agree on is, MORMONISM IS NOT CHRISTIAN.
You’re a Baptist?! Huh! That’s not what my Baptist church preaches.
There is much to be learned by studying the final minutes of the thief’s life and what Jesus told him when he asked to be remembered by Jesus. And yes, I do spend a lot of thought on his regard. I also find the way the disciples behaved when their Lord was killed and tucked away in the tomb to be very interesting.
I would be interested to read your thoughts regarding the thief on the cross. Care to share?
LOL, there is more than “doubt” there is unanimity, Mormons are not Christians, and all Christian churches agree on that.
Greek Orthodox, Protestants, the Catholic church, as you know they have disagreements, and “doubts” between each other, but one thing that they all agree on is, MORMONISM IS NOT CHRISTIAN.
oooooh wow capital letters! Since Mormons are Christians, then I guess all Christian Church’s don’t agree.
Undecided readers,
As an ex Mormon-basher, I invite everyone to read all of the multitude of Anti-Mormon attack threads and/or comments on this board and then do some research on your own from more than one side of the “issues”.
Is what all these Mormon attack squad people parrot day in and and day out on these boards true? Don’t take their word for it. Find out for yourself. Put forth some effort. You do want the truth right? Prove it.
Read both sides. Talk to both sides. Not just mine. Not just theirs. Make up your own mind.
Here’s a few links to get your started from a different viewpoint. The vast majority of the issues brought up can be found and addressed at http://www.fairlds.org/ I have found but here’s more.
http://scriptures.lds.org/
http://www.lds.org
http://www.fairlds.org/
http://www.mormonwiki.com/Main_Page
http://www.lightplanet.com/response/index.html
http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDS_Intro.shtml
http://www.answeringantimormons.com/index.htm
http://promormon.blogspot.com/
Of course the cult itself doesn't agree with Christianity, that is one of the traits of a cult.
“Kenneth, what is the frequency?”
I have to admit, this just cracks me up. It is so-o-o-o-o damn funny to watch as all the little pointy heads (no offense intended to you, zippy) of the Mormon-bashing “christians” explode from cognitive dissonance.
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