Atheists the most informed about religion.

[faethor]

Pew Study on Religion indicates that Atheists know the most about religion. For example: "More than four-in-ten Catholics in the United States (45%) do not know that their church teaches that the bread and wine used in Communion do not merely symbolize but actually become the body and blood of Christ." I bet the number was even lower if they didn't describe the word transubstantiation.

Other interesting things are while 90% of the population knows that schools can't teach religion a mere 36% know that schools can teach a comparative religion course. People knowledge is legal. Indoctrination is illegal.

Take a Mini-quiz see how you do.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Take a Mini-quiz see how you do.

Well, I didn't get the last one, oh well. But the site must be very bust as it was slow and failed to serve me all the pages. I had to click refresh a couple of times to get through and by the time I got to the end it had lost my first 13 answers. Fortunately it gives the correct answers at the end so you can check your results - but maybe give it a day or two to calm down before you try it.

 

[cecilia]

the more you know about religion the more you realize it's full of shit

I wish I could recall how George Carlin put it, but his point was that you became an X catholic Because you attended catholic school. gotta agree! :mrgreen:

 

[minator]

The quiz is a bit silly really.

I wouldn't mark catholics down because they do't know much about Hindu beliefs.
OTOH I might expect atheists to have a more broader knowledge.

It strikes me it's a set of questions designed to give a certain answer.


The whole science Vs religion thing has never made any sense to me. I never took the bible to be literal truth in the first place (I used to have great arguments with a friend about why I believed in evolution and he didn't). As I see it, there's nothing to argue about.

Galileo (a committed Catholic) said it very well:
“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go”

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

The quiz is a bit silly really.
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OTOH I might expect atheists to have a more broader knowledge.

You might then imagine that the Catholics would outscore the atheists on the matter of transubstantiation.

 

[faethor]

The quiz is a bit silly really.

I wouldn't mark catholics down because they do't know much about Hindu beliefs.
OTOH I might expect atheists to have a more broader knowledge

Why? There is no difference between the Atheist and the Catholic in the relation to Hindu. Both Atheist and Catholic deny the existence of Hindu gods. In fact the Catholic denies all other gods except for 1. The Atheist chooses to deny that last 1 too.

It strikes me it's a set of questions designed to give a certain answer.

That's what questions typically are for. In this type of study one wants to know how much people understand of their own belief system and how well they did, or did not, critique other beliefs prior to making their judgement.

Though we already know this indirectly by analyzing societies. Families tend to the same religion, or sects of the same religion. Geographical regions tend to the same religion.