Earlier today I posted an item about religious knowledge.
Here’s a quiz if you are inclined to test your own knowledge. 15 questions.
At the time I tried the quiz the Devil was messing it up and making it tediously slow. Despite that, I scored 15 correct out of 15 and feel actually quite spiritual. I may start my own faith.
Tried to take it, got through two questions and it said it was experiencing technical difficulties.
I’ll try again later as I’m curious.
I got 13 out of 15. I thought that Joseph Smith’s religion was Cons R Us. The wait period was very slow between question, but, hey, it’s a long way to Heaven where ALL of your answers were recorded!
This time I got seven questions in and got the “technical difficulties” page.
Maybe I’m just too evil for the quiz?
Leaning towards being an athiest, I remain agnostic, the only reasonable position to a question that cannot be answered. The path to this position comes from years and years of curiosity and reading on the subject of religion and mythology.
I got 14 out of 15 right, missing the one about the Jewish Sabbeth, which I thought was Saturday. The questions in the Pew quiz are looking for very basic knowledge.
It is sad but not surprising that religious folks have such poor knowledge about religion, including their own.
Little ole atheist me got them all right. And the process was zippy quick. I feel like I should sacrifice a goat or dance in the moonlight in celebration.
15 right out of 15. I’m not an atheist or an agnostic, nor do I affiliate myself with any particular religion. I am, however, theologically curious, so I have studied various religions over the years, thus no surprise I got them right. To be perfectly honest, though (since it’s one of the Ten Commandments), I did guess on one of them–the Great Awakening question.
14/15. John Edwards. Who’d a thunk it? Though imbued with the spiritual longing characteristic of the human condition, a Missouri Synod Lutheran upbringing convinced me that religion is no more or less real than Greek mythology.
I particularly enjoyed your name for the quiz.
14/15. Is it any coincidence that many of us who actually learn about religion end up not being religious?
Well, once you actually learn about religion, it only makes sense to NOT be religious. lol! Spiritual, yes; religious, no. The church always mucks up everything. I got 15/15 but wasn’t sure about that teacher thing and guessed.
There are a million conversion stories — the President told his yesterday, for example. But I also think there are a million awareness conversions, too. For many of us who grew up indoctrinated in a particular faith, the simple act of breaking away could put the whole religion chimera into question.
15/15. Interesting that those who attend church weekly barely score higher than those who attend seldom/never.
I got 14 out of 15 right. I rarely attend church, I was raised 1st Baptist.
Exception to every rule — 15 out of 15. Raised Catholic, of one Catholic and one Jewish parent. Active churchgoer. Married an Episcopalian woman whose field is Early America. I couldn’t not get Jonathan Edwards.