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bluescat48 Member (Idle past 4218 days) Posts: 2347 From: United States Joined: |
It tells me, according to the %'s of correct answers, the average less than 50% of Americans know what they are talking about concerning religion, both their own and others.
There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002 Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969 Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008
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ringo Member (Idle past 441 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Theodoric writes:
I had to guess (I was smart enough to rule out Billy Graham from the start), so I can only claim a half-point for that one. I don't think I've ever heard of the Great Awakening. (And it looks to me like it didn't work.) I know US history up and down so the Great Awakening question was easy for me. I find it kind of scary that only 23% got this one correct. "It appears that many of you turn to Hebrew to escape the English...." -- Joseppi
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jar Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Like Friday the 13th..
Zombies are hard to keep killed. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
93%. Had to guess on the last one and got it wrong. Though I had known about two of the Great Awakenings, having read about them years ago in an obscure book, History of the End of the World. They kept predicting the end being near, just a few years away, and it kept failing to happen. As I understand, that's where the Adventists came from.
Oh yeah, demographics. Atheist since about 1963, so about 47 years.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8563 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
I got them all wrong. Scored a perfect 0%.
Had to think hard on that last one though.
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slevesque Member (Idle past 4669 days) Posts: 1456 Joined: |
Look at the table titled: Mormons and evangelical know more about christianity; ...
You should've maybe read the article before commenting Edited by slevesque, : No reason given.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1053 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
It tells me, according to the %'s of correct answers, the average less than 50% of Americans know what they are talking about concerning religion, both their own and others. It tells you nothing of the sort. I would predict that almost every single Hindu got every question about Hinduism right, almost every Muslim got every question about Islam right, almost every Jew got every question about Judaism right, and so on, because there was only one or two of each. This means the majority of all these could well know their own religion inside out, for all you know. There were far more questions on Christianity, so Christians fared less well, but they still, on average, got slightly over half the questions about their own religion right. Mormons and white Evangelicals did better on the Christian questions than did atheists.
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Larni Member Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
Jason was not a zombie. He could not die. Very different.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1053 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
This means the majority of all these could well know their own religion inside out, for all you know. To expand on this, it seems that 1% of the survey respondents were Jewish, 1% Muslim, 1% other faith. With the exception of 1% who refused to say, the rest were all Christian or non-religious - mostly Christian. Clearly, this survey really does tell us next to nothing at all about the religious knowledge people of most faiths in the US.
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
ABE: Whoops, I read Jesus instead of Jason. Wierd...
Jason was not a zombie. He could not die. Very different. He died, was buried, and then rose again. From the Nicene Creed:
quote: Edited by Catholic Scientist, : see ABE
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hooah212002 Member (Idle past 830 days) Posts: 3193 Joined: |
He said Jason, not jesus.
"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof."-Hitch.
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
Holy Shit!
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Larni Member Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
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jar Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
So Jesus was a Zombie?
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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frako Member (Idle past 334 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: |
yea the later brain eating parts of the story got censured by Constantin
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