Survey: Americans don't know much about religion - U.S. news - msnbc.com

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friendlyatheist:

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.

Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn’t know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a symbol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ.

More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. And about four in 10 Jews did not know that Maimonides, one of the greatest rabbis and intellectuals in history, was Jewish.

Atheists and agnostics scored highest.

Duh, if people actually knew about their religions there would be no religious people at all.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
-Isaac Asimov

fritch just tweeted this too! many luls were had.