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Fossaman

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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2010, 05:44:15 pm »

14/15. I missed the last one, but since only about 10% of people get that one right and most of them are probably guessing, it's all good.
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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #16 on: October 02, 2010, 06:04:24 pm »

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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #17 on: October 02, 2010, 06:08:21 pm »

I got that one right, oddly.  Gogo barely useful RE knowledge!
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« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2010, 06:09:22 pm »

12/15

6. Which of the following best describes the Catholic teaching about the bread and wine used for Communion?     
wrong Answer  The bread and wine are symbols of the body and blood of Jesus Christ. 
   The bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

Am I the only one that sees that that is physically impossible?


also, since when is the religion you belong too defined by the colour of your skin? as the survey clearly makes a difference between white protestants and black protestants.

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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #19 on: October 02, 2010, 06:12:21 pm »

You're not the only one, no.  There was that big thing about PZ Myers destroying a communion wafer.
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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #20 on: October 02, 2010, 06:13:32 pm »

also, since when is the religion you belong too defined by the colour of your skin? as the survey clearly makes a difference between white protestants and black protestants.
As pseudo-racist as it is, there are great divides between "white churches" and "black churches" in the U.S such that they could be considered different forms of Christianity, and generally are.
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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2010, 06:13:56 pm »

Erm, perhaps that should also be a question on the list. Read here. Technically, white protestant isn't a real term, but it's probably there to mark them apart from black protestants without using statments like common, normal or soft (which all carry unfortunate implications)
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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #22 on: October 02, 2010, 06:36:53 pm »

12/15

6. Which of the following best describes the Catholic teaching about the bread and wine used for Communion?     
wrong Answer  The bread and wine are symbols of the body and blood of Jesus Christ. 
   The bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

Am I the only one that sees that that is physically impossible?




It's more complex than that, IIRC. They regard it as becoming the blood and body but at some abstract spiritual level, rather than a literal physical one (like Dungeon Crawl's weapon branding, I guess) . So when they say it's not symbolic it's not as much a claim that they performed some strange alchemycal ritual, as it is a claim that the ritual actually means something.
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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #23 on: October 02, 2010, 06:45:42 pm »

Yeah, they're not claiming to be cannibals.
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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #24 on: October 02, 2010, 06:47:18 pm »

Yeah, they're claiming they are no cannibals.
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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #25 on: October 02, 2010, 07:00:22 pm »

12/15

Very poor quiz.

Why are say Catholics suppose to know about Hindus and visa versa? Who did they give these tests too anyway? To vague and, may I say this, may be a attempt to say religious people are dumb.

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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #26 on: October 02, 2010, 07:04:17 pm »

Why should atheists know any more about any of the others?
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« Reply #27 on: October 02, 2010, 07:06:33 pm »

They should not.

I am not a atheist but I know more then all of the averages. Seems that they may have a bad base group to me.
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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #28 on: October 02, 2010, 07:09:14 pm »

One would expect Jews to be the most knowledgeable about at least their own religion, because scripture studies are a central part of their fate. The same goes to a lesser extent for Muslims and Protestants.
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Re: Test Your Religious Knowledge
« Reply #29 on: October 02, 2010, 07:13:30 pm »

The going hypothesis about why atheists/agnostics had such a high average score is that, because most atheists/agnostics are formerly religious individuals who have spurned belief in a deity, they would have had to leave a religion. This implies that they had issue with their religion, and thus probably knew a lot about it. Ignorance about a group that you are part of tends to not give you issue with said group. The hypothesis also says that as those leaving their former religion might not be willing to give up the concept of a deity or declare it unknown just yet, and thus would research other faiths but end up rejecting them as well. Another concept behind the idea is that due to the fairly large non-acceptance of atheism, at least in the U.S., atheists would know more about their postition as a reaction to challanges leveled against them so that they could defend their ideas.
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