Skwim
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Which comes as no surprise. Anyway . . . .
FWIW: I, an agnostic, took the test and got 80% correct.
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Which comes as no surprise. Anyway . . . .
"When it comes to basic knowledge about what different religions teach, Jews and atheists know more than every kind of Christian.
That’s the bottom line in a new survey from the Pew Research Center, which asked 32 questions testing everyone’s religious knowledge. (You can take the quiz right right here.)
Let’s discuss the results, then get into what the heck is going on here.
Only 9% of people got a score higher than 75% — which doesn’t sound all that impressive — but Jews, atheists, and agnostics fared better than Christians overall.
None of those scores are worth bragging about. We’re a nation of religious people who know nothing about religion.
Still. It’s telling that the people who reject the most popular brand of religion in the country are the ones who know more facts about faith. (For what it’s worth, atheists knew more than agnostics, and agnostics knew more than “Nones” in general. Why do historically black Protestants score much lower than everyone else? Arguably because their churches often focus on applying religious principles to social issues rather than focusing on individual stories.)
Some of the results, you could have predicted. In general, college graduates knew more than people who didn’t finish high school. Christians who attended a ton of Sunday school knew more about Christianity than those who never went. People who have friends of different religions know more than people who live in a religious bubble. Most Americans know specifics about Christianity but only the basics about other religions. They are familiar with what atheism means. They also greatly overestimate the percentage of Jews and Muslims that live in the U.S.
None of that is surprising.
Here’s an interesting tidbit, though: It turns out the higher you scored on the quiz, the more “warmly” you felt about nearly every group, including Buddhists, Jews, Hindus, and atheists. The more you understand about religions as a whole, it seems, the higher opinion you have of certain belief systems.
But there was one exception.
The people who aced the exam had a much lower opinion of evangelical Christians compared to the ones who royally flunked it."
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That’s the bottom line in a new survey from the Pew Research Center, which asked 32 questions testing everyone’s religious knowledge. (You can take the quiz right right here.)
Let’s discuss the results, then get into what the heck is going on here.
Only 9% of people got a score higher than 75% — which doesn’t sound all that impressive — but Jews, atheists, and agnostics fared better than Christians overall.
None of those scores are worth bragging about. We’re a nation of religious people who know nothing about religion.
Still. It’s telling that the people who reject the most popular brand of religion in the country are the ones who know more facts about faith. (For what it’s worth, atheists knew more than agnostics, and agnostics knew more than “Nones” in general. Why do historically black Protestants score much lower than everyone else? Arguably because their churches often focus on applying religious principles to social issues rather than focusing on individual stories.)
Some of the results, you could have predicted. In general, college graduates knew more than people who didn’t finish high school. Christians who attended a ton of Sunday school knew more about Christianity than those who never went. People who have friends of different religions know more than people who live in a religious bubble. Most Americans know specifics about Christianity but only the basics about other religions. They are familiar with what atheism means. They also greatly overestimate the percentage of Jews and Muslims that live in the U.S.
None of that is surprising.
Here’s an interesting tidbit, though: It turns out the higher you scored on the quiz, the more “warmly” you felt about nearly every group, including Buddhists, Jews, Hindus, and atheists. The more you understand about religions as a whole, it seems, the higher opinion you have of certain belief systems.
But there was one exception.
The people who aced the exam had a much lower opinion of evangelical Christians compared to the ones who royally flunked it."
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