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Survey: Americans don't know much about religion
Associated Press ^
| 28 Sept 2010
| RACHEL ZOLL
Posted on 09/28/2010 11:55:57 AM PDT by killermedic
A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths. Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn't know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a symbol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ. More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. And about four in 10 Jews did not know that Maimonides, one of the greatest rabbis and intellectuals in history, was Jewish.... On questions about Christianity, Mormons scored the highest, with an average of about eight correct answers out of 12, followed by white evangelicals, with an average of just over seven correct answers. Jews, along with atheists and agnostics, knew the most about other faiths, such as Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism. Less than half of Americans know that the Dalai Lama is Buddhist, and less than four in 10 know that Vishnu and Shiva are part of Hinduism.
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TOPICS: Ecumenism; History; Religion & Culture; Worship
KEYWORDS: antimormonism; atheism; godlessness; inman; knowledge; mormonism; truth
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To: ejonesie22
LOL! You're whining because you got your ever-lovin' "christian" ass kicked by some "vile" cultists who know more about the supposed leader of your religion that you do.
And I am talking about Jesus Christ if you're too dense to give my drift.
To: colorcountry
Follow the leader, perhaps???? All good cultists do as they are told. While I think the leaders might be right in regards to Obama, it is scary to wonder what might happened if those leaders ordered their members to, oh say, massacre a wagon train, or drink the kool-aid. I really love your post! Too funny. Yeah, Mormons just do what we are told. uh huh.
To: colorcountry
Follow the leader, perhaps???? All good cultists do as they are told. While I think the leaders might be right in regards to Obama, it is scary to wonder what might happened if those leaders ordered their members to, oh say, massacre a wagon train, or drink the kool-aid. I really love your post! Too funny. Yeah, Mormons just do what we are told. uh huh.
To: Colofornian
So when it comes to obeying the Bible & worshiping Jesus -- do Mormons do that? No, they overwhelmingly don't (with a few exceptions). Yep, Mormons (except a few) do not obey the Bible. Especially the 10 commandments. right? In fact Mormons obey the bible less that any other religion major or minor. /sarc
As for worship Christ? The fact that ordinances are done in His name is meaningless right.
Sheeeeeeeeeesh, what a stretch.
To: killermedic
Well all this time I thought you were a Mormon. But since Mormonism teaches that there are three gods acting as a troika, your comment on The One God shows me I was mistaken, you’re not a Mormon. Might explain some of your posting methodology, too.
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posted on
09/29/2010 6:54:06 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it's nye impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: behzinlea
Careful there, your ignorance is spewing out all over the thread for everyone to see. Jesus is not the ‘leader of a religion’, friend, He is the Savior. Men make religions, Jesus makes people members of His family.
146
posted on
09/29/2010 6:58:09 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it's nye impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: behzinlea
Um, since I wasn't surveyed, how exactly did “I” get my butt kicked?
LOL...
147
posted on
09/29/2010 7:00:09 PM PDT
by
ejonesie22
(8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
To: killermedic
Sorry KM, smokescreens are a Mormon tactic, not one of mine. I deal in facts...
148
posted on
09/29/2010 7:06:25 PM PDT
by
ejonesie22
(8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
To: MHGinTN
Watch it you’ll get your butt kicked...
LOL...
149
posted on
09/29/2010 7:16:45 PM PDT
by
ejonesie22
(8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
To: ejonesie22
;^)
150
posted on
09/29/2010 7:54:08 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it's nye impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: Elsie
Toad eating ducks? I didn’t know that.
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posted on
09/30/2010 4:28:31 AM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Mount Carmel Utah, where the world comes to see America)
To: GreyMountainReagan
Your implication is that Mormons are racist.Quotes are the damnedest things!
152
posted on
09/30/2010 4:44:34 AM PDT
by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: GreyMountainReagan
Quotes are the damnedest things!
But first...
Care to explain why Mormons are more conservative also?
153
posted on
09/30/2010 4:45:24 AM PDT
by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: GreyMountainReagan
The fact that ordinances are done in His name is meaningless right.Oh no!
They DEFINITELY mean something!
(One of the ten mentions 'taking His name in vain' I believe.)
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posted on
09/30/2010 4:47:11 AM PDT
by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: ejonesie22
Um, since I wasn't surveyed, how exactly did “I” get my butt kicked? Because we SAID so!
You KNOW that's how MORMONism works!
--MormonDude(BTW; still got a couple of non-calendar grade material folks wanting to come to your house to explain the RG to you.)
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posted on
09/30/2010 4:49:48 AM PDT
by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
So ordinances in the name of the “Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost” are against the 10 commandments? In your opinion?
To: Elsie
LC, back in the '50's many Christian denominations had separate churches for blacks and whites....so using your all intelligent logic members of those churches are all racist.
You just keep playing that race card when your argument is losing.
To: GreyMountainReagan
You just keep playing that race card when your argument is losing. Sorry; but Mormon SCRIPTURE has the RACism embedded in the verses.
Only MONSON can make THAT fact go away!
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posted on
09/30/2010 10:27:50 AM PDT
by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
There’s no ‘attempt’; just DO! I thought it was grace not works?
To: GreyMountainReagan
You distinctly ordered an apple and NOW you complain that I did not bring you an orange?
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posted on
10/01/2010 5:25:16 AM PDT
by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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