How much do you know about religion?

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15 I would imagine most participants on the NCR forum of CAF are in that range.
 
13 out of 15 for me - and one of the ones I missed was due to a brain cramp.
 
I scored in the 93rd percentile - 13 out of 15.

I guess I need to read up on the First Great Awakening (sounds awfully Protestant).

The Jewish Sabbath question was a toss-upā€¦
 
ā€œYou answered 15 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 100%.ā€

ā€œYou scored better than 99% of the publicā€

Yay šŸ˜ƒ
 
The official results were a bit suprising
  • Jewish people scored best, then Atheist/Agnostic
  • only 55% knew the Golden rule was not one of the Ten Commandments
  • 7% of Mormons did not know Joseph Smith was Mormon
  • Transubstantiation was poorly understood by all.
 
I scored 14 out of 15 - 93%.

Missed the last one. Had I answered it correctly it would have been a guess anyway. The rest are pretty basic.
 
14/15.

Got one of the US questions wrongā€¦ Unfortunately I didnā€™t know that US public school teachers were unable to lead classes in prayer because fortunately I donā€™t live in the US.

Incidentally; since when was
What was the name of the person whose writings and actions inspired the Protestant Reformation?
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Martin Luther; and Not Zwingli or Wycliffe?

Fortunately there was only one sensible answer; but I seriously doubt the knowlege of the people making the quiz.
 
12 or 15.

I thought Jonathan Edwards was the television psychic. šŸ˜ƒ

Wasnā€™t sure about leading school prayer, and I didnā€™t know which religion is big on nirvana. Scientology wasnā€™t an option.

(The press and the testers put more emphasis on the results of that test than they should have.)
 
For other Americanā€™s who missed this in your history class,
The First Great Awakening (or The Great Awakening) was a religious revitalization movement that swept the Atlantic world, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American religion.
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It resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of personal guilt and of their need of salvation by Christ. Pulling away from ritual and ceremony, the Great Awakening made religion intensely personal to the average person by fostering a deep sense of spiritual guilt and redemption, and by encouraging introspection and a commitment to a new standard of personal morality. It brought Christianity to African slaves and was an apocalyptic event in New England that challenged established authority.
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15 of 15

Well, I guess a 15 year old with a Catholic school education knows more about religion than 99 percent of the population. Sad day indeed, especially considering that Catholics did extremely poorly on this :confused:
 
14 out of 15!! YES!:extrahappy::yeah_me: Iā€™m gonna put me up on the frig.

Missed the one about teachers being able to lead a prayer in school. Silly me.
 
I got stuck with the one about Hinduism, Buddhism and Nirvana. Is it a bad question? Both Hinduism and Buddhism use the word ā€œNirvanaā€ now, for a similar concept. Hinduism was the first to teach the concept of a state of bliss, free from the cycle of re-incarnation, and Buddhism was the first to use the word ā€œNirvanaā€. In neither does it just mean ā€œfreedom from sufferingā€, although that seems to be closer to the Buddhist meaning than the Hindu.

To me, itā€™s a bit like asking ā€œWhich Christian tradition teaches salvation by faith: ā€¦?ā€. ie. itā€™s not well enough defined to get to a distinction, it obscures the common origins of the traditions, and it probably reflects a popular misconception.

However, Iā€™m no expert - Iā€™d be interested in anyone elseā€™s opinion.

(As an aside, I recall a question many years ago from an Australian quiz show - ā€œIn which religion is the Apostles Creed the statement of faithā€. The champion, a Catholic, pressed the buzzer, then paused, and after a little thought said ā€œCatholicismā€. She was told that the answer was wrong, because the correct answer was ā€œChristianityā€, and Catholicism was only a sect within Christianity. She didnā€™t argue the point, and went on to win that show, and the grand prize eventually šŸ‘ )
 
Whatā€™s up with the 41% of White Catholics that missed the question about communion?
 
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