US Religious Knowledge Quiz

[Svartalf]

Prepare your trick better next time, father of lies, I think the giants are onto you.

[Loki]

Your avatar looks familiar, did I know your mother?

Was a good trick and all.

[Hermit]

Not surprising that Atheists and Agnostics get the highest score.

Can you read a graph?



I got 14 right, and they were not guesses. Never heard of The Great Awakening, nor the names of two of the three candidates, so I didn't answer that question.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If you think you're hot shit...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I got 14/15. Who the crap is Jonathan Edwards?

His most famous sermon is called "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

Required reading when I was in HS.

HS?

High School. Last four out of twelve grades.

[Robert_S]

Nice little essay comparing the moralities of Jonathan Edwards, Heinrich Himmler, and Huckleberry Finn.

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/jfb/huckfinn.pdf

[hadespussercats]

I got 14/15. Who the crap is Jonathan Edwards?

His most famous sermon is called "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

Required reading when I was in HS.

HS?

High School. Last four out of twelve grades.

Yup. Read under the "But it's literature!" clause.

[Cormac]

Not surprising that Atheists and Agnostics get the highest score.

Can you read a graph?



I got 14 right, and they were not guesses. Never heard of The Great Awakening, nor the names of two of the three candidates, so I didn't answer that question.

oops.

That isn't the stat I saw... I'll look again when back at my pc.

[Seabass]

If you think you're hot shit...

29/55

I guess I'm not hot shit.

[Pappa]

I'd like to see Pew split their "Atheist/Agnostic" category into two. Particularly in the US, self-identifying as Atheist is very different to self-identifying as Agnostic. I'd like to see the comparative results after that.

[Svartalf]

If you think you're hot shit...

29/55

I guess I'm not hot shit.

42, in part because the luimited time hampered me

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'd like to see Pew split their "Atheist/Agnostic" category into two. Particularly in the US, self-identifying as Atheist is very different to self-identifying as Agnostic. I'd like to see the comparative results after that.

Nope, the number is bigger when we're lumped.

[Pappa]

I'd like to see Pew split their "Atheist/Agnostic" category into two. Particularly in the US, self-identifying as Atheist is very different to self-identifying as Agnostic. I'd like to see the comparative results after that.

Nope, the number is bigger when we're lumped.

They split the Christians into loads of useful data categories. They can always be counted together when required. They even have a "Nothing in particular" category.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'd like to see Pew split their "Atheist/Agnostic" category into two. Particularly in the US, self-identifying as Atheist is very different to self-identifying as Agnostic. I'd like to see the comparative results after that.

Nope, the number is bigger when we're lumped.

They split the Christians into loads of useful data categories. They can always be counted together when required. They even have a "Nothing in particular" category.

...and...?

[Pappa]

I think (in the US in particular) someone who self-identifies as an Atheist might possibly give quite different answers to someone who self-identifies as an agnostic. I'd be willing to wager that a lot of the time an American "Atheist" has done a considerable amount of thinking and/or reading about religion or religious arguments, whereas an "agnostic" could be anyone.