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To: 1010RD

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.


70 posted on 09/29/2010 6:50:52 PM PDT by ansel12 ([fear of Islam.] Once you are paralyzed by fear of Mohammedanism...you have lost the battle.)
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To: ansel12
PEW is a left-wing trash bin with an axe to grind. That said the quiz isn't completely empty, but it does seem to have an agenda. I found this conclusion most disturbing:

Mormons, black Protestants and white evangelicals are the most frequent readers of materials about religion. Fully half of all Mormons (51%) and roughly three-in-ten white evangelicals (30%) and black Protestants (29%) report that they read books or go online to learn about their own religion at least once a week. Only a small fraction of all religiously affiliated Americans – 6% of the general public and no more than 8% of any religious group – say they read books (other than Scripture) or visit websites to learn about religions other than their own at least once a week.

Those are very sad and low numbers. How can you not read about your religion at least on a weekly basis? How can you "practice" your religion without knowing it?

The studies conclusions aren't clear and possibly they're not meant to be. PEW likes contention, destroying/undermining Western Civilization, and garnering headlines. They've obviously succeeded here.

82 posted on 09/29/2010 7:26:57 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: ansel12

ding we have a winner!


105 posted on 09/30/2010 4:49:57 AM PDT by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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