@hingehead,
hingehead wrote:
In the preamble it says it's a Pew test to determine your religious knowledge and the Christians average 16 and atheists and Jews about 21. It's not actually designed to show believers are smarter than non believers.
It is interesting, but not surprising, that adherents of one religion would not know much about other religions unless your Jewish. I wonder why that is?
The scores of Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus aren't mentioned.
True, it's not designed to test for intelligence. That's just what the headline read as a draw to get you to the site. It didn't surprise me either that actual Christians wouldn't bother to learn anything about any other religion. Dismaying, but not surprising. I know people who have zero interest in learning anything that might upset the apple cart. Not just in their religious beliefs either.
If it's different, it's "weird".
Yes, from what I recall, some of the questions where geared to the US constitution and such.
heh, just remembered something.
I went 12 years to Catholic school. I remember 1 day sitting on the gym floor during some pep rally, and looking at the life size crucifix on the far wall. I remember sharing with my friend sitting next to me "Can you imagine if you were an alien and just arrived here, and was told that's a symbol of our religion?" Yikes. Talk about different and weird. "yeah, that's our God, hangin' up there bloody and nailed to a piece of wood. How did he get up there? Oh, we killed him."