Nope, all that proves is I just *know* shit.

[etakyma]

Yahoo news has an article about how most Americans can't answer the simplest questions about their own, and other people's faith. (Take the quiz yourself before reading the article: http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/)

Read the article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_rel_religious_literacy_poll

I was raised Unitarian, in probably the most organized of any Unitarian church I've ever seen or heard of (it is also one of the oldest Unitarian churches around). But what they did really really well while I was growing up was giving us glimpses of other faiths, and told us any and all faiths were valid, and should be respected.

I no longer consider myself Unitarian. Or even Christian of any flavor.

But I got a 100% on the quiz - better than 99% of the people who took it. There was only one question I guessed (and guessed correctly) on. The majority of the questions are Judeo-Christian in content, but there are a couple that are (broadly) related to Hindu, Islam, and Buddhism.

Now, I know that the article is about a slightly different test - one with 32 questions, while this quiz only has fifteen, but I still felt pretty good about the score I got. Between my liberal arts education and my Sunday school curriculum I did okay.

Comments

[drvsilla.livejournal.com]

Well done. :D

I got 14/15, but I'm not sure which I missed. I'm thinking one of the supreme court ruling questions, because I had no hesitation on the other questions.

[gillianinoz.livejournal.com]

You can check which one you missed.

I got 14/15 as well - I missed the Ten Commandments one, but everything I know about religion I got from TV shows, so that's not bad.

Oh, and I guessed the last one.

[ksl2025.livejournal.com]

I missed two on the quiz. The First Great Awakening---I never heard of that. And one of the Supreme Court Rulings I got wrong because we used to have a Bible as Literature class offered in my high school and the school board killed it. Silly me for thinking they might have been legally required to. Oy.

Still, I did better than 93% of the population...and really, that's just scary. How can so many people not know this stuff?