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I took the quiz online and the articles about it have been highly misleading. I consider myself a fairly knowledgeable religious person and I got 26 out of 32
by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I took the quiz online and the articles about it have been highly misleading. I consider myself a fairly knowledgeable religious person and I got 26 out of 32 questions right. Here's the thing, though: I got that many right because I took theology and history classes in college, not because I know anything about my faith. The average person isn't ignorant because they don't know who Maimonides, Jonathan Edwards, Vishnu, or Joseph Smith was. This survey appears to test primarily for education level.
Less than half of questions were actually applicable to the practice of religion, the rest were history and sociology questions. I guess, "Americans Don't Know Religious History" wouldn't be much of a headline.