Darkforbid
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The test also shows the more time you spend studying religion the better your score. Which proves atheists are more fixated on religion
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"Survey: Jews and Atheists Have More Religious Knowledge Than Christians"
- Thread starter Skwim
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I had to quess one and guessed wrong. Only 14 right, oh woe is me, what sort of Atheist am i?
Darkforbid
Well-Known Member
Like?
Like misrepresentation, like needing a time machine to make it work, like cherry picking, like dedicating life to bronze age mythology at the expense of reality, like lying for their god book and ultimately their god
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Which comes as no surprise. Anyway . . . .
FWIW: I, an agnostic, took the test and got 80% correct."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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I took the test and, by the power vested in me, I can certainly ascertain that @Skwim understanding of Christian beliefs, doctrines and understanding of scriptures is at about 15%.
I got 13 out of 15 correct. So non-believers do score higher.I took the test and, by the power vested in me, I can certainly ascertain that @Skwim understanding of Christian beliefs, doctrines and understanding of scriptures is at about 15%.
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Darkforbid
Well-Known Member
Well it's just rhetoric unless post it
'twas you who made the claim I replied to, may i suggest you go first
As a believer My score was 15/15 So where is the math?
You are a believer? I'm sorry, I was mistaken.As a believer My score was 15/15 So where is the math?
The math was that I am a believer that scored 13 of 15 and I thought you were a non-believer that had a perfect score. Thus, the idea that atheists know more about religion than Christians remained acceptable.As a believer My score was 15/15 So where is the math?
Darkforbid
Well-Known Member
'Among Christians, knowledge of the Bible and Christianity is closely linked both with the amount of effort respondents say they invest in learning about their faith and with their religious background. Christians who say they regularly spend time learning about their own religion (for example, reading scripture, visiting websites, listening to podcasts, reading books or magazines, or watching television) answer more questions correctly about the Bible and Christianity than do those who say they make such efforts to learn about their faith less often (9.4 questions right out of 14 total, vs. 6.8)'
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Same here. I screwed up on one that I should not have screwed up on.
Darkforbid
Well-Known Member
Pointless
Yes they are. Thanks for agreeing
Sand Dancer
Crazy Cat Lady
15/15
Sand Dancer
Crazy Cat Lady
Most atheists were Christian, but with the reading and studying they do, they tend to know more than current Christians.