Knowing your religion?

Booko · #31 29th September 2010, 12:20 AM

Originally Posted by red_panda

You bring up a good point, Booko. Thank you for mentioning that. Not every atheist is some angry anti-theist who is out to persecute Christians and threaten a lawsuit over something trivial like a Nativity scene or someone silently praying. I myself once went through a time when I questioned my faith. I guess sometimes I'm too suspicious of people and shouldn't be too quick to expect the worst.

Oh, I understand, Red Panda. I have certainly seen atheists on a crusade to disparage Christianity, and it's only natural when you see that so constantly to assume that atheists are all coming from that place. The ones that aren't are not so noisy and are polite so you don't notice them as much.

Montalban · #32 29th September 2010, 12:46 AM

Originally Posted by awitch

I thought this was an interesting article:
Survey: Americans don't know much about religion

But atheists actually know more than Protestants and Catholics, Pew Forum finds

"A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths."

I'm not sure a mere 32 questions is sufficient to make that determination. Still, I'd like to know what they asked.

That's what I said to you on another thread about the Moslems you know who are nice people . I noted that most people don't know their own faiths that well. I also noted that many Catholics don't understand about the Immaculate Conception

I see a lot of people who just do things by rote