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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: Elsie

I think this applies to yourself.


161 posted on 10/01/2010 6:11:20 AM PDT by GreyMountainReagan ("Pray for America")
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To: GreyMountainReagan
Whatever makes you happy.

MORMONism is PERVERTED Christianity.

162 posted on 10/01/2010 10:58:13 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
My family, fishing, good friends work, sports, and good weather, are some of the things that help me be happy. A return to conservative government would really make me happy.

Christ and His gospel give me hope and definitely make me happy.

Not to sound like something out of Rogers and Hammerstein but those are a few of the things that make me happy.

regards.

163 posted on 10/01/2010 4:25:44 PM PDT by GreyMountainReagan ("Pray for America")
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To: Elsie

15/15. Did you take the quiz? I suspect approximately 90% of Freepers (you included) would get a similar score.


164 posted on 10/01/2010 4:34:28 PM PDT by GreyMountainReagan ("Pray for America")
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To: GreyMountainReagan

Heck - brain dead people would get a ‘similar’ score!

I missed the one about the TEACHER leading the prayer in a classroom.


165 posted on 10/01/2010 7:51:04 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: GreyMountainReagan

Whiskers on kittens - definitely!!!


166 posted on 10/01/2010 7:52:15 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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