A new survey of Americans shows that atheists and agnostics rank with Jews and Mormons as the top-performing groups in religious knowledge. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life posed 32 basic religious questions and found that atheists and agnostics answered, on average, 20.9 correctly. Jews were right on 20.5, and Mormons on 20.3. The survey found atheists and agnostics to be more knowledgeable about religion than Protestants and Catholics. See how you do on this mini online version of the quiz that asks 15 of the questions asked on the survey.
Friday, October 1, 2010
How much do you know about religion?
> A new survey of Americans shows that atheists and agnostics rank with Jews and Mormons as the top-performing groups in religious knowledge. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life posed 32 basic religious questions and found that atheists and agnostics answered, on average, 20.9 correctly. Jews were right on 20.5, and Mormons on 20.3. The survey found atheists and agnostics to be more knowledgeable about religion than Protestants and Catholics. See how you do on this mini online version of the quiz that asks 15 of the questions asked on the survey.
A new survey of Americans shows that atheists and agnostics rank with Jews and Mormons as the top-performing groups in religious knowledge. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life posed 32 basic religious questions and found that atheists and agnostics answered, on average, 20.9 correctly. Jews were right on 20.5, and Mormons on 20.3. The survey found atheists and agnostics to be more knowledgeable about religion than Protestants and Catholics. See how you do on this mini online version of the quiz that asks 15 of the questions asked on the survey.
