What do you know about religion?

Sep. 28th, 2010 05:36 pm
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A Pew Form study released today shows that atheists/agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves. That's not particularly surprising, but I found some of the results interesting. You can read the results here and take a sample quiz from the survey here.
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Date: 2010-09-28 09:50 pm (UTC)
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14 and muffled the great awakening

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Date: 2010-09-28 09:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lillibet.livejournal.com
I got 14, too, as I was erroneously under the impression that Vatican II had nixed transubstantiation in favor of merely symbolic cannibalism.

Date: 2010-09-29 07:06 pm (UTC)
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Nirvana was my one and only question that I answered incorrectly. Wow, sayeth I. :)

Date: 2010-09-28 10:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jelazakazone.livejournal.com
I missed the one about transubstantiation too. I just couldn't remember.

Date: 2010-09-28 10:23 pm (UTC)
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I also got 14; I was wrong about Pakistan.

Also, this is the second time I've seen mention of this study saying that atheists/agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves. I was surprised to actually click through to the article and see that, in fact, what it really says is that atheists and agnostics and Jews and Mormons are more knowledgeable than most of the Christian denominations.

Date: 2010-09-28 11:22 pm (UTC)
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If I remember correctly, what it really says is that educated people are more knowledgeable about religion than uneducated people. And, yes, some religious identifications (including atheism, agnosticism, and Judaism) correlate better with level of education than others.

Date: 2010-09-29 12:52 am (UTC)
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And really, it's probably more true (and more obvious) that more-educated people are more knowledgeable about religions *other than their own*, than less-educated people.

Actually, a lot of the non-Christian questions were questions that someone who listens to the news more regularly than I do probably knows from the news.

15 out of 15

Date: 2010-09-28 10:32 pm (UTC)
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I assumed I had gotten three of them wrong but I got them all right! This is entirely credited to my Unitarian Universalist upbringing, my Comparative Religions class in high school (taught by a Sikh) and my deductive reasoning (for the Great Awakening, since I barely learned any history in school).

Andy missed the Bible as literature in public school and the Great Awakening, both of which he knows but he wasn't taking the survey very seriously past the first few questions.

Date: 2010-09-28 11:19 pm (UTC)
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15 out of 15.

Date: 2010-09-29 12:50 am (UTC)
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I got 15 out of 15 (but that included one mostly-guess and one outright guess). And I'm not only atheist, I'm second-generation, brought-up atheist.

Date: 2010-09-29 02:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ceelove.livejournal.com
I got 15 right and am neither "religious" nor "atheist/agnostic."

Date: 2010-09-29 11:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moria923.livejournal.com
14; muddled the First Great Awakening.

Date: 2010-09-29 05:20 pm (UTC)
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15 out of 15. "You scored better than 99% of the public."
Ah...the joys of being a minister's daughter.

Date: 2010-09-29 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookly.livejournal.com
Hunh. 14 out of 15 right (I missed the one about the First Great Awakening -- what on earth was that??), and I don't consider myself particularly knowledgeable about religion. :( Or didn't, anyway....

Date: 2010-09-29 11:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookly.livejournal.com
And after reading the comments, I see that my first impression was correct -- compared to my peers, my knowledge of religion is average. Yay for smart friends! :)

Date: 2010-10-01 02:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] entirelysonja.livejournal.com
I got the last question wrong. I've never heard of the First Great Awakening.

Other than that, they were all easy.
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