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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (24770)	4/14/2012 4:25:05 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 69300

I've busted that bogus study before: Another shallow "study" designed to promote atheism and agnosticism. Apparently the study is a questionnaire with 32 questions, 12 of them about Christianity. From the LA Times story, it seems two of those 12 Christianity questions involved being able to identify Martin Luther and Mother Teresa. Does this mean a young person raised in say an Assy of God church who doesn't know who Martin Luther and Mother Teresa were doesn't know much about their own religion or God? Thats the premise and its nonsense. Oh wait: Turns out the study atheists tout actually shows Christians know more about the Bible. Surprise, surprise. "On questions about Christianity – including a battery of questions about the Bible – Mormons (7.9 out of 12 right on average) and white evangelical Protestants (7.3 correct on average) show the highest levels of knowledge." http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=60976&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=Religion%20and%20Public%20Life&WT.rss_a=U.S.%20Religious%20Knowledge%20Survey&WT.z_contenttype=PublicOpinion Uh, this would indicate Mormons and WEP's actually got higher scores on the Christian section of the questionnaire than any other group, even those brilliant atheists and agnostics. This is contrary to the stories written about the questionnaire most of which claim atheists and agnostics know more about Christianity than those dumb Christians - you just can't count on the media to get stories right. ------ If 12 of the 32 questions were about Christianity (and were of the who was Mother Teresa and Martin Luther type), what were the other 20 questions? Well, 11 of the other 20 involved "other world religions" and the rest must have been on "the role of religion in public life" whatever that is. The server for the questionnaire is down or I'd post the 32 questions. "Jews and atheists/agnostics stand out for their knowledge of other world religions, including Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism; out of 11 such questions on the survey, Jews answer 7.9 correctly (nearly three better than the national average) and atheists/agnostics answer 7.5 correctly (2.5 better than the national average). ...