{"id":1877,"date":"2013-05-02T12:32:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2013-05-02T12:32:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:32:06","slug":"are-we-really-this-dumb-when-it-comes-to-religious-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2013\/05\/are-we-really-this-dumb-when-it-comes-to-religious-knowledge.html","title":{"rendered":"Are We Really This Dumb When It Comes to Religious Knowledge?"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/230\/2013\/05\/Picture1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1878\" title=\"Picture1\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/230\/2013\/05\/Picture1-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\"><\/a>The Pew Forum has a 15 question quiz on general religious knowledge. <a href=\"http:\/\/features.pewforum.org\/quiz\/us-religious-knowledge\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here and take the test<\/a> (it\u2019ll only take a few minutes). How did you do? Post your scores in the comments section below if you want to share how you did.<\/p>\n<p>I got all of them right (remember I went to school for this stuff), but I have to admit that I was sorta guessing on\u00a0Vishnu and Shiva \u2013 I was pretty sure it was Hindu, but wasn\u2019t positive. When I got the results back, it was interesting to look at how others scored:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>45% of people taking the survey do not know that \u201cdo unto others as you would have them do unto you\u201d is not one of the Ten Commandments.<\/li>\n<li>55% of people taking the survey do not know that the Jewish Sabbath begins on Friday.<\/li>\n<li>60% of people taking the survey do not know that Roman Catholic teaching on communion is that the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Jesus.<\/li>\n<li>61% of people taking the survey did not know that Job was the biblical figure most associated with being faithful despite suffering.<\/li>\n<li>77% of people taking the survey did not know its fine for a public school teacher to read\/study the bible as literature.<\/li>\n<li>89% of people taking the test did not know Jonathan Edwards figured prominently in the first great awakening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was pretty surprised by these results. I was also a bit surprised that Jews scored best, averaging 65%. Evangelicals were in the middle, averaging 54%. Hispanic Catholics were the lowest, 39%.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Forum has a 15 question quiz on general religious knowledge. Click here and take the test (it\u2019ll only take a few minutes). How did you do? Post your scores in the comments section below if you want to share how you did. 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