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  • tooblue
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2008
    • 5127
    #1

    Atheists not so smart after all

    410 Gone
    http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/05/my-take-atheists-not-so-smart-after-all/?iref=obnetwork


    So in this first-ever religious literacy Olympics, Jews earned a gold medal, Mormons a silver and atheists a bronze.
    The Pew Forum U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey

    http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-an...ge-Survey.aspx

    Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.
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    • Solon
      Lost in the flood
      • Nov 2008
      • 5747
      #2
      Originally posted by tooblue View Post
      http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/1...iref=obnetwork


      The Pew Forum U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey

      http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-an...ge-Survey.aspx
      Hmmm. So, atheists aren't doing as well in a religious-knowledge quiz as religious people.

      That doesn't exactly surprise me.

      Fun quiz, though. thanks for posting, tooblue.
      Last edited by Solon; 01-04-2011, 09:44 AM.
      "More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
      -- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)

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        • tooblue
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2008
          • 5127
          #3
          Originally posted by Solon View Post
          Hmmm. So, atheists aren't doing as well in a religious-knowledge quiz as religious people.

          That doesn't exactly surprise me.

          Fun quiz, though. thanks for posting, tooblue.
          I'll tell you my score (without googling) if you'll tell me yours

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            • Solon
              Lost in the flood
              • Nov 2008
              • 5747
              #4
              Originally posted by tooblue View Post
              I'll tell you my score (without googling) if you'll tell me yours
              There's no way you didn't get 100% on that thing. If not, you didn't get questions that were as easy as I did.
              "More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
              -- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)

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                • Paperback Writer
                  Signature won a Pulitzer
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 5211
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Solon View Post
                  There's no way you didn't get 100% on that thing. If not, you didn't get questions that were as easy as I did.
                  Agree. But then again, only 93% of Mormons identified Joseph Smith Jr. as the faith's founder. Wonder what the other 7% were thinking.
                  “Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory.”
                  "All things are measured against Nebraska." falafel

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                    • creekster
                      It is NOT a monkey!
                      • Nov 2008
                      • 22661
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Paperback Writer View Post
                      Agree. But then again, only 93% of Mormons identified Joseph Smith Jr. as the faith's founder. Wonder what the other 7% were thinking.
                      Jesus.
                      PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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                        • Borderline Divine
                          Junior Member
                          • Jul 2010
                          • 598
                          #7
                          I'm SHOCKED!!!

                          In other news citizens of Zambia finished third in an online quiz about baseball. Not surprisingly, Americans took the gold and Dominicans the bronze.
                          The Holy War is over, and Utah won - Federal Ute

                          Think of how stupid the average American is. Then remember that half are even dumber than that. - George Carlin

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                            • Solon
                              Lost in the flood
                              • Nov 2008
                              • 5747
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Borderline Divine View Post
                              In other news citizens of Zambia finished third in an online quiz about baseball. Not surprisingly, Americans took the gold and Dominicans the bronze.
                              Bronze for second-place? What do the Zambians get? Iron? []
                              "More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
                              -- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)

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                                • Paperback Writer
                                  Signature won a Pulitzer
                                  • Nov 2010
                                  • 5211
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by creekster View Post
                                  Jesus.
                                  Actually, I got the question wrong. It was the reverse:
                                  What was Joseph Smith's religion?
                                  * Catholic
                                  * Jewish
                                  * Buddhist
                                  * Mormon
                                  * Hindu

                                  And 7% of "Mormons" answered something other than Mormon.
                                  “Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory.”
                                  "All things are measured against Nebraska." falafel

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                                    • myboynoah
                                      Senior Member
                                      • Nov 2008
                                      • 21719
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by Paperback Writer View Post
                                      Actually, I got the question wrong. It was the reverse:
                                      What was Joseph Smith's religion?
                                      * Catholic
                                      * Jewish
                                      * Buddhist
                                      * Mormon
                                      * Hindu

                                      And 7% of "Mormons" answered something other than Mormon.
                                      They got confused when Methodism was not an option.
                                      Last edited by myboynoah; 01-04-2011, 09:40 PM.
                                      Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

                                      For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

                                      Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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                                        • Babs
                                          Not a Lawyer
                                          • Nov 2008
                                          • 17128
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by creekster View Post
                                          Jesus.
                                          No need to swear!

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                                            • SoCalCoug
                                              Ragnar Lodbrok Descendant
                                              • Nov 2008
                                              • 5214
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by Solon View Post
                                              Hmmm. So, atheists aren't doing as well in a religious-knowledge quiz as religious people.

                                              That doesn't exactly surprise me.

                                              Fun quiz, though. thanks for posting, tooblue.
                                              Actually, they did better than all of the religious groups other than Jews and Mormons.

                                              Bronze is third place.
                                              If we disagree on something, it's because you're wrong.

                                              "Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney." — Last words of George Harris, executed in Missouri on Sept. 13, 2000.

                                              "Nothing is too good to be true, nothing is too good to last, nothing is too wonderful to happen." - Florence Scoville Shinn

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                                                • tooblue
                                                  Senior Member
                                                  • Nov 2008
                                                  • 5127
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by Solon View Post
                                                  There's no way you didn't get 100% on that thing. If not, you didn't get questions that were as easy as I did.
                                                  I missed the First Great Awakening question.

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                                                    • Solon
                                                      Lost in the flood
                                                      • Nov 2008
                                                      • 5747
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by tooblue View Post
                                                      I missed the First Great Awakening question.
                                                      Your foot has slid.

                                                      May God have mercy on your soul.
                                                      "More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
                                                      -- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)

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                                                        • tooblue
                                                          Senior Member
                                                          • Nov 2008
                                                          • 5127
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by Solon View Post
                                                          Your foot has slid.

                                                          May God have mercy on your soul.
                                                          Wow, now that's hellfire and damnation!

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