From the Pew Research Center national survey on religious knowledge, we learned that Americans don't actually know an awful lot about it - not about their own self-professed religion, and certainly less about anyone else's. Self-identified atheists scored highest.
Here's a pop quiz from NYTimes columnist Nicholas Kristof. Admittedly, I did not do so well - 3 or 4 correct answers out of 13. And I hardly count those because I was either guessing or trying to psych out the test objective. The quiz focuses on more extremist views of social and moral values, and it illustrates that religious tenets are more complicated and nuanced than one might be led to believe from the geopolitical bent of media and crazy, uninformed religious and political extremists....(Grrrrr....don't get me started). I like that several questions on the quiz have more than one correct response. Well-researched and provocative, it makes one stop and think. Too bad, so many people don't bother doing so.
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