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marciosmg on 29 September 2010
rocketpig said:
raptors11 said:
dystopia said:

No surprise there, Athiests knowing the most about religions makes complete sense to me.


lol atheists scored 20.9% compared to 17.6% for protestants. Not much to brag about, we all failed.

 

I would love to have taken that survey though see how I did.

It's available on the Pew site (15 questions of it, anyway).

I got 14 of 15. I took a wild shot in the dark on the last question.

Ha. I did just like you. I didnt know the last question and guessed it wrong. The rest was pretty easy.



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raptors11 on 29 September 2010
rocketpig said:
raptors11 said:
dystopia said:

No surprise there, Athiests knowing the most about religions makes complete sense to me.


lol atheists scored 20.9% compared to 17.6% for protestants. Not much to brag about, we all failed.

 

I would love to have taken that survey though see how I did.

It's available on the Pew site (15 questions of it, anyway).

I got 14 of 15. I took a wild shot in the dark on the last question.


Damn I only got 9. Kinda dumb though, I don't know anything about Islam, Buddhism, etc. I got the Christianity related questions right.



sapphi_snake on 29 September 2010
marciosmg said:


Yes. Why?

Its an early Christianity heresy that denied the Trinity.

Arians didn't believe that Jesus was God and they called themselves Christians. That's why!



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rocketpig on 29 September 2010
raptors11 said:
rocketpig said:
raptors11 said:
dystopia said:

No surprise there, Athiests knowing the most about religions makes complete sense to me.


lol atheists scored 20.9% compared to 17.6% for protestants. Not much to brag about, we all failed.

 

I would love to have taken that survey though see how I did.

It's available on the Pew site (15 questions of it, anyway).

I got 14 of 15. I took a wild shot in the dark on the last question.


Damn I only got 9. Kinda dumb though, I don't know anything about Islam, Buddhism, etc. I got the Christianity related questions right.

From the sounds of the survey, Christians were given more Christian questions, Jews more Jewish questions, etc. The online version looks like a base-level quiz only.




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marciosmg on 29 September 2010
sapphi_snake said:
marciosmg said:


Yes. Why?

Its an early Christianity heresy that denied the Trinity.

Arians didn't believe that Jesus was God and they called themselves Christians. That's why!

Well, the werent. So there is a difference. There is a line where a person doesnt get to be something just because she says she is. 

If a guy who doesnt think Jesus is God says he is a Christian, he is not. he may think it, but its not true.He might be something else but he is not Christian. That is the most basic aspect of Christianity.

You dont get to be a fan of the New York Yankees and yet only cheer for the LA Lakers.

The problem for me is that how can a survey know that, be prepared for it?



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AdventWolf on 29 September 2010

I didn't do too bad,  but I missed #15 and #7. I'm really surprised how low the average is.



highwaystar101 on 29 September 2010

15 out of 15, pretty swish. But like Rocketpig I had a shot in the dark with last one, but I was lucky.



sapphi_snake on 29 September 2010
marciosmg said:
sapphi_snake said:
marciosmg said:


Yes. Why?

Its an early Christianity heresy that denied the Trinity.

Arians didn't believe that Jesus was God and they called themselves Christians. That's why!

Well, the werent. So there is a difference. There is a line where a person doesnt get to be something just because she says she is. 

If a guy who doesnt think Jesus is God says he is a Christian, he is not. he may think it, but its not true.He might be something else but he is not Christian. That is the most basic aspect of Christianity.

You dont get to be a fan of the New York Yankees and yet only cheer for the LA Lakers.

The problem for me is that how can a survey know that, be prepared for it?

The goal of this survey was to establish whether people have knowledge regarding their own religion and other religions. I don't get the point of that bad anology you came up with.



"I don't understand how someone could like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, but not like Twilight!!!"

"Last book I read was Brokeback Mountain, I just don't have the patience for them unless it's softcore porn."

                                                                               (The Voice of a Generation and Seece)

"If you cant stand the sound of your own voice than dont become a singer !!!!!"

                                                                               (pizzahut451)

marciosmg on 29 September 2010
sapphi_snake said:

The goal of this survey was to establish whether people have knowledge regarding their own religion and other religions. I don't get the point of that bad anology you came up with.


I guess my point is different and not really about the issue. I dont like the way certain people make religion relative nowadays. 

They take this "it is whatever I want it to be, and if you say otherwise you are opressing me"approach and I dont like it.

But, as you said, the survey wasnt about that, so I went a bit off-topic. Sorry.

There are a lot of religious people out there who are ignorant of their own faiths for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with being lazy or having that approach I mentioned above.  So it would be wrong to make such affirmation about them.

Am I being clear (for some reason the question mark isnt working on my keyboard, so imagine one at the end of this phrase )



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raptors11 on 29 September 2010
rocketpig said:
raptors11 said:
rocketpig said:
raptors11 said:
dystopia said:

No surprise there, Athiests knowing the most about religions makes complete sense to me.


lol atheists scored 20.9% compared to 17.6% for protestants. Not much to brag about, we all failed.

 

I would love to have taken that survey though see how I did.

It's available on the Pew site (15 questions of it, anyway).

I got 14 of 15. I took a wild shot in the dark on the last question.


Damn I only got 9. Kinda dumb though, I don't know anything about Islam, Buddhism, etc. I got the Christianity related questions right.

From the sounds of the survey, Christians were given more Christian questions, Jews more Jewish questions, etc. The online version looks like a base-level quiz only.

oh okay that's cool!