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[voodoopenguin]

I am an agnostic and have been for over 45 years. I scored 6/6 on that survey despite one of the questions being about US law. Over the years I have had many fun discussions about various religions but of course being the dominant one here the majority have been with Christians. I love it when they ask if I read the the Bible because I throw the question straight back to them. They usually say that yes, they read the Bible to which I ask "All of it?" I read the whole thing, cover to cover when I was about twenty and as yet I have not met anyone except a couple of vicars who have done that. I have mentioned this before here and there were some who did say they had read the whole thing.

I might be sceptical (bloomin' spellcheck says this is wrong but it is correct for English English) about Christianity but religions do fascinate me so will read about them all. There are Bibles in the house and also a Koran but unfortunately that is in Arabic!

Paul

[August West]

6/6, don't practice religion. The bible, to me, is fascinating historical literature.

[Seacrest]

Read the Bible cover-to-cover at around age 13.
Was still semi-religious at that point.

Most laypeople know very little about their own religions save what their closest religious authority tells them.
All of them ignore the parts of it they want to ignore anyway, when it's convenient.

[mattkime]

6/6, bitches!

[Rick-o]

6/6 for me. Wasn't that difficult, and no, I'm not a believer nor a disbeliever.

[August West]

Pew Research Quiz

Looks like the NY Times took their questions from here. The population in general performs rather poorly.

[Grace62]

That full quiz is a good bit harder than the NYT abbreviated version.

I got 14/15, did not know "The Great Awakening" person...

[kanesa]

15/15

[$tevie]

13/15, did not know "The Great Awakening" person, either. My other miss was because I was moving too fast and didn't stop to think what they were really asking, which is aggravating but I'll get over it I suppose.

[max]

Lifelong atheist....
15/15