{"id":2072,"date":"2013-02-11T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/02\/im-smarter-than-an-atheist.html"},"modified":"2013-02-11T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:04:00","slug":"im-smarter-than-an-atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/02\/im-smarter-than-an-atheist.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m smarter than an atheist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>So The Christian Science Monitor had a quiz on that was given to people of various religious traditions. \u00a0As usual, Catholics came in last. \u00a0That\u2019s starting to get on my nerves. \u00a0Atheists were, not\u00a0surprisingly\u00a0 at the top since most atheists spend most of their time pouring over the various beliefs they reject. \u00a0A person who is single looks at more members of the opposite sex than married individuals \u2013 at least I hope. \u00a0A person who has settled into what they have concluded to be true may well be content to remain there.<\/p>\n<p>Still, at an average of 20.9 answers correct, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2011\/0105\/Are-you-smarter-than-an-atheist-A-religious-quiz\/Results\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">I beat them with all but one correct<\/a>. \u00a0It came down to which religion was dominant in\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0 Islam or Hinduism. \u00a0Because the previous\u00a0question\u00a0had been Indonesia, I second guessed myself and picked Islam. \u00a0Otherwise, got\u2019em all! \u00a0And you know what? \u00a0I probably understand and appreciate the other religions I answered correctly about as most\u00a0atheists\u00a0understand and appreciate my religion. 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