A Funny Result

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Jews and Mormons have to explain to the flock how their ideas are different from those of the majority. Atheists and agnostics too, in their questioning and even rejecting, have probably devoted more thought to religion, or more accurately, religions

-- Jay Livingson, sociologist

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[hardblue.livejournal.com]

You can take the quiz yourself if you want:

http://www.pewforum.org/quiz/u-s-religious-knowledge/

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

Oh cool! Thank you!

I got a 13/15.

I missed the one about Jewish Sabbath and the last one about something called the "First Great Awakening"...

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I was perfect! :p

Though, I was just lucky on a number of guesses.
Thank god for multiple choice!

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Yay for a perfect score! Multiple choice did make some of it easier.

[liliaeth]

I got 13/15
I had no idea what they meant with the great awakening, let out who started it. And embarrassingly I got a question about the host being the blood and flesh of Christ wrong. Saying embarrassingly, seeing as how I am Catholic ;-)

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

I know, I had no idea about the great awakening either. Never heard of it. So I assumed wrongly that it had something to do with televangelists or something.

[st-croix-wis.livejournal.com]

Atheist, 14 of 15, Great Awakening got me too. Have to thank 13 years of Catholic education for most of that score.

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

I caught myself at the last second on the Jewish Sabbath question. Nearly said Saturday, but then remembered Friday at sundown. Saturday is Temple.

Read up on The Great Awakenings. The second was actually more interesting than the first. Fundamentalists in the US know surprisingly little about their own sects. I'm always a little thrilled that I know more than they do. My grandmother and I used to talk about it when I was a kid. She said the third Great Awakening was at the turn of the last century. I agreed with her.

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

Cool! =)

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

15/15 for a lapsed catholic atheist here. Though I'd have to thank AP US history for the tricky religion questions.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Well, at least we are the 1%ers in something. ;)

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

I'd rather be in the money 1%. The whole religious knowledge thing hasn't earned me a single cent.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Heh, I hear you. It would be nice to be able to buy things, I suppose. ;)

[moonshaz.livejournal.com]

I got 'em all right! :D

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

We're a very naughty community and probably doomed. ;)