Americans Are Shockingly Ignorant About Religion

[spirit1st]

That was a Very Nice post , You put up!
You know , satan sends many in to these forums for evil and in many other places and chat rooms!
he means it for evil!
But we get to PLANT seeds of truth in them!
These seeds will grow in some?
There are many here , that LOVE our LORD and are better writers than me! I thank GOD for all these here who LOVE our LORD JESUS!
This is a wonderful site!
Glad they do not put up with too much junk!

 

[IloveJesus92]

I'm in college. I work almost full time and go to school full time.
I read my bible and pray a lot, I don't go to church anymore.
Once I go to my next school and I don't work, I plan on going back though. I wasn't raised in church, I went on my own.

 

[allforihs]

Christians aren't as ignorant as the poll suggests. Christians scored best on the questions about Christianity. Jews and Atheists should be expected to know something about Christianity because this is a predominately Christian country. But, there's little reason for Christians to know anything about Judaism.

People with no religion identification, but did not claim to be Atheists, scored the worst. Christians with a low level of religious commitment also scored very badly. As far as I'm concerned, these two groups should be counted with the Atheists, making Atheists the lowest scoring group.

The other big factor was education. Avowed Atheists tend to be very educated, and education correlates strongly with general knowledge of world religions.

On the other hand, Christians are shockingly ignorant about religion, and Christianity itself. These were very easy, non-controversial questions, like naming the four Gospels.