“Kind of makes sense. ..”
My thinking too. That should be obvious, really.
It will be interesting to watch the evasion here though... :)
Actually, the same could be said for all religion. Fairy tale stuff.
> It will be interesting to watch the evasion here though... :)
Before you get too pleased with yourself, you should keep in mind that this is New York Times writing about Pew - no reason to expect facts from either source.
Consider this:
> 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.
This demonstrated that the followers of the majority religion (Christians) in the United States know more about their religion than atheists/agnostics or followers of a minority religion (Jews). No surprises here.
Also:
> Jews and atheists/agnostics stand out for their knowledge of other world religions, including Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism;
Jews know more about Judaism. Amazing! And, atheists and agnostics know more factoids about multiple religions. Most of these factoids probably came from the recent “Eat, Pray, Love” movie.
Then we have a winner:
> 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.
Probably comes from complaining about school prayers.
(I must say that as a Jew, having my religion combined with atheists on any level is offensive.)