Don't know much about religion? You're not alone, study finds

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I took the 15 question one and only missed the last one, so my score was 93%, in other words, better than 97% of the population.

I rock! 😃
 
It says much about us Christians that basic questions about our own faith are not known by 100% of those claiming adherence to it. Leave aside other religions for a while, what is the excuse for any adult Catholic of normal mental capacity to not know what we believe about the Eucharist?!

Not too surprising actually when one attitude to knowledge these days seems to be: believe what you’re told and close your mind to the rest. Investigation, questioning, reasoning, researching, discussing are neither necessary nor desirable it would seem. Just find someone you trust and look up to, believe whatever they tell you, repeat it as often as possible and reject whatever they don’t or won’t say - if that’s not the greatest biological short-circuit in history, I don’t know what is!
 
OMGAWSH I took the test and got 30 out of 32!!! I’m so PROUD!! awwww…

I’m totally proud…I got the one about who would sacrifice their son for God, and the one about the great revival or something…

But not bad, eh!
 
100% baby!!! 👍 My college history classes helped (and I"m shocked that I was able to dust off the cobwebs in my brain to remember the answers). Why don’t they poll me for these things? :hmmm:
 
masondoggy said:
Absolutely appalling.
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Not terribly surprising - only about 1/3 of all Catholics attend weekly mass. Easter/Christmas Cathoilcs may very well be ignorant about the faith. I will have to read the results of the survey - but I’ll guess the results are general about a wide range of topics, not split out, such as “Practicing Catholics vs. atheists on questions regarding Catholic faith” - for instance…
 
didymus said:
How many of those polled are college graduates?
How can you get a bachelor’s (esp. w/all the campus “diversity”) without having heard of Maimonides, Shiva, Luther or Ramadan?
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Easily, Maimonides and the Jonathan Edwards questions were my two misses. But I did learn about Zeus in Junior High School.
 
Mr_Skeptic said:
I got 10 out of 10, first try. 👍
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I got 9 out of ten. I got the sabbath wrong. I put Saturday. I guess I overanalyzed it, thinking Friday turned into Saturday at sundown on Friday. It was a trick question!
 
I did very well on the practice quiz, however this survey is a bit misleading. It reads like to be a good Christian you need to know details about other religions. You don’t. You don’t have to know who was an instrumental figure in the second great awakening or what some Hindu god or goddess was known for, or what the Islamic holy month is to be a great and saintly Christian.

I don’t see scoring poorly on this survey as indicative of how saintly someone is.

my 2-cents
 
Charlotte408 said:
I’m totally proud…I got the one about who would sacrifice their son for God…
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I remember distinctly that I heard about that before First Communion in 1993… Don’t know what that class is called in English…
Some things just stick.
 
Janet1983 said:
I got 32 out of 32…
Well all that it does show is that I have received some education about other religions…
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So did I. But, your “some education” is a lot more than that of the overall number of people, including Catholics, having education even about their own faiths.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
So did I. But, your “some education” is a lot more than that of the overall number of people, including Catholics, having education even about their own faiths.
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If you only knew a lot about your own faith, you would have scored very poorly on the survey. This is not a survey to show you are religious or spiritual, this is a survey to show you did OK in history or in comparitave religions.
 
gilliam said:
If you only knew a lot about your own faith, you would have scored very poorly on the survey. This is not a survey to show you are religious or spiritual, this is a survey to show you did OK in history or in comparitave religions.
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Exactly! 👍

Some thing no one has mentioned is the faith alone question. The answer is Protestants, however that’s not true. Not all Protestants believe that. There are some who are more in line with Catholics in that area. Protestant beliefs tend to be vary diverse. You can’t lump them all into one big category.
 
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