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Sun Aug 25, 2013, 08:39 PM

Paulie (8,458 posts)

154. 15/15 - Atheist

Should have asked when the Seventh Day Adventists have sabbath.

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198 replies	Author	Time	Post
How much do you know about religion? [View all]	MoonRiver	Aug 2013	OP
I know that the three major religions	Le Taz Hot	Aug 2013	#1
+1	XemaSab	Aug 2013	#2
Knowledge is power,	MoonRiver	Aug 2013	#3
15/15	XemaSab	Aug 2013	#6
jews and atheist/agnostics score best on the quiz	burnodo	Aug 2013	#5
I am atheist and only 80%. I should have done better. n/t	RebelOne	Aug 2013	#12
I'm not in those groups and got all 15 questions	Yo_Mama	Aug 2013	#24
Anti-theist here, scored 14/15. Missed the last question.	stopbush	Aug 2013	#127
Nominally Jewish and truly lost religion	nadinbrzezinski	Aug 2013	#150
It says something about a tradition of asking questions.	aquart	Aug 2013	#156
Yep, that's pretty much the bottom line of it all IMO too. n/t	RKP5637	Aug 2013	#11
don't do nuance, huh?	arely staircase	Aug 2013	#79
9/15, I guess pretty well...	PowerToThePeople	Aug 2013	#4
I got 14/15.	MoonRiver	Aug 2013	#7
Gah. I mixed up the first and second great awakenings.	Recursion	Aug 2013	#8
Same here. (nt)	PotatoChip	Aug 2013	#96
Never heard of either one.	aquart	Aug 2013	#153
100%. Know thy enemy.	hobbit709	Aug 2013	#9
I scored in the top 16% and I'm not religious in the least, from what I've	RKP5637	Aug 2013	#10
14 out of 15	surrealAmerican	Aug 2013	#13
Same here. Being raised an atheist probably has something to do with my score.	GliderGuider	Aug 2013	#180
15/15	Bonobo	Aug 2013	#14
93% due to my life long study of	safeinOhio	Aug 2013	#15
15/15	quaker bill	Aug 2013	#16
+1	grantcart	Aug 2013	#130
me too n/t	catrose	Aug 2013	#176
struggled with the great awakening question	demwing	Aug 2013	#178
early American Lit	quaker bill	Aug 2013	#181
Dang, missed one. nt	bemildred	Aug 2013	#17
I'm agnostic - you'll occasionally find me in a church	TBF	Aug 2013	#18
100%. Only the last question was remotely	Warren Stupidity	Aug 2013	#19
15/15.	Arkansas Granny	Aug 2013	#20
I know enough to stay away from it...	99Forever	Aug 2013	#21
I practice, and I believe you	demwing	Aug 2013	#177
Atheist	Brewinblue	Aug 2013	#22
Yeah, I struggled some with that one.	MoonRiver	Aug 2013	#30
Nice, thank you for the insult	blueamy66	Aug 2013	#43
Do you actually believe that a cracker turns into flesh, suspending the laws of physics and reality?	cleanhippie	Aug 2013	#75
it's actually none of your business	blueamy66	Aug 2013	#88
What do I believe about what? That a cracker turns into flesh?	cleanhippie	Aug 2013	#93
Post removed	Post removed	Aug 2013	#97
Juror #6 really summed it up nicely, rug.	cleanhippie	Aug 2013	#102
I believe that I posted...."thanks for the insult"	blueamy66	Aug 2013	#110
You're right. Faith could care less about reality.	cleanhippie	Aug 2013	#112
Bingo.	Quixote1818	Aug 2013	#123
whatever....	blueamy66	Aug 2013	#158
Whatever?	cleanhippie	Aug 2013	#172
not quite...	Ino	Aug 2013	#189
Ever wondered why there are gluten-free communion wafers? If it turns into flesh, there's no gluten	cleanhippie	Aug 2013	#192
Yes. And wine is actually the blood. nt	msanthrope	Aug 2013	#35
Yeah, they're a bit cannibalistic.	Neoma	Aug 2013	#37
Yeah - its called Transubstantiation	Ruby the Liberal	Aug 2013	#42
More than bizarre. It is sick. Like putting shrunken heads on poles.	BlueStreak	Aug 2013	#55
Are you saying that millions of Catholics are brainwashed?	rug	Aug 2013	#69
1) Yes, absolutely. 2) Somewhat -- enough to know about 1)	BlueStreak	Aug 2013	#105
Most Catholics don't even believe the doctrine	Quixote1818	Aug 2013	#135
And then you have apologists who say things like "do you understand the doctrine?"	cleanhippie	Aug 2013	#78
I'll put you down as not understanding it.	rug	Aug 2013	#85
Put me down as not giving a shit what an apologist thinks.	cleanhippie	Aug 2013	#89
No, that's why you felt compelled to post.	rug	Aug 2013	#91
Keep trying, ruggie, you can beat that last-word compulsion.	cleanhippie	Aug 2013	#94
Which is, of course, why you made that post.	rug	Aug 2013	#100
Which is why you are unable to not hav the last word.	cleanhippie	Aug 2013	#106
I imagine we may all agree that civility is not predicated on any religion... merely on the person.	LanternWaste	Aug 2013	#196
It's only sick if you both reject it	demwing	Aug 2013	#179
Huh?	BlueStreak	Aug 2013	#182
That's puerile	demwing	Aug 2013	#184
The doctrine says it IS actually human flesh and blood. That is why it is sick.	BlueStreak	Aug 2013	#194
No, the doctrine says it is the substance of the Body and the Blood of Christ	demwing	Aug 2013	#198
I knew it because of a scene from HBO's Oz...	shawn703	Aug 2013	#92
The reason I got that one is because I photograph a lot of 1st Communions	Quixote1818	Aug 2013	#121
They do. I broke out in silly giggles the day they brought that up	Warpy	Aug 2013	#126
I don't know that much and I got 14 out of 15	cali	Aug 2013	#23
Enough to know its based on ignorance and lies.	GeorgeGist	Aug 2013	#25
You answered 15 out of 15 questions correctly for a score of 100%.	xchrom	Aug 2013	#26
Nimby	bearssoapbox	Aug 2013	#27
15/15	etherealtruth	Aug 2013	#28
You answered 14 out of 15 questions correctly for a score of 93%.	Ms. Toad	Aug 2013	#29
Atheist. 100%.	MineralMan	Aug 2013	#31
15 out of 15 but the questions were super easy	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2013	#32
^That.	knitter4democracy	Aug 2013	#34
Apparently that whole cannibalism thing threw many people off. n/t	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2013	#111
Got 10/15...	2naSalit	Aug 2013	#33
It's good to sort of know in order to know about history in general though.	Neoma	Aug 2013	#39
I grew up	2naSalit	Aug 2013	#40
No no, I meant down the line in history.	Neoma	Aug 2013	#44
Oh, true. eom	2naSalit	Aug 2013	#45
15/15. Easy test. nt	msanthrope	Aug 2013	#36
15/15	PADemD	Aug 2013	#38
Easy quiz	FrodosPet	Aug 2013	#41
Interestingly...	2naSalit	Aug 2013	#47
It's a trivia quiz	Orrex	Aug 2013	#57
Religion is anti-intellectual.	99Forever	Aug 2013	#84
Not Anti but Pre or Prior To	The River	Aug 2013	#120
13 of 15. And I got the Catholic bread and wine thing wrong.	Zorra	Aug 2013	#46
Got 13 out of 15 correct...	Humanist_Activist	Aug 2013	#48
Really?	Ms. Toad	Aug 2013	#81
I heard about a survey in Ireland that said about 62% of them thought...	Humanist_Activist	Aug 2013	#134
I photograph a lot of 1st Communions so I got that one right	Quixote1818	Aug 2013	#113
14/15. The last one stumped me.	CJCRANE	Aug 2013	#49
Probably because it occurred a couple hundred years before you were born.	NuclearDem	Aug 2013	#52
I guessed on that one and got it right	Quixote1818	Aug 2013	#114
That was the only one I missed too, same reason, same wrong answer.	1-Old-Man	Aug 2013	#166
Missed two. Numbers 10 and 15....	socialist_n_TN	Aug 2013	#50
You answered 13 out of 15 questions correctly	Coyotl	Aug 2013	#51
15/15	NuclearDem	Aug 2013	#53
Ditto	ReasonableToo	Aug 2013	#162
I got 12. This is like "how much do you know about Dungeons and Dragons	BlueStreak	Aug 2013	#54
I would probably do better with the D&D test	PowerToThePeople	Aug 2013	#59
D&D has ruined / ended a lot less lives than religion	BlueStreak	Aug 2013	#65
Maybe 2/15. there were two constitutional questions.	PowerToThePeople	Aug 2013	#67
Agreed.	BlueStreak	Aug 2013	#68
The constitutional questions had the lowest scores.	rug	Aug 2013	#71
indeed, there are many Americans especially among fundamentalist Protestants who believe a bunch of	Douglas Carpenter	Aug 2013	#95
To be fair, The Pew Trust	hootinholler	Aug 2013	#72
Maybe you missed my point	BlueStreak	Aug 2013	#83
Yes Apparently I did, but	hootinholler	Aug 2013	#101
That might have been the case 2000 years ago.	BlueStreak	Aug 2013	#122
100 percent......	Ichingcarpenter	Aug 2013	#56
Are there any "now much do you know about atheism" quizes online?	Orrex	Aug 2013	#58
Here's one, 25 questions. Not interactive though.	rug	Aug 2013	#74
Nice--thanks!	Orrex	Aug 2013	#80
Whoops--blogs are blocked while I'm at work	Orrex	Aug 2013	#109
Why would there be? Atheism is nothing more than a lack of belief in a god.	cleanhippie	Aug 2013	#82
Really? I've had decades of theists telling me what atheism "really" is.	Orrex	Aug 2013	#86
That is still happening right here. Theists tell non-believers here everyday what atheism really is.	cleanhippie	Aug 2013	#98
Heh	Capt. Obvious	Aug 2013	#187
Because they do.	rug	Aug 2013	#87
if you scored 14 out of 15 - you scored better than 97% of the American public - that's scary	Douglas Carpenter	Aug 2013	#60
click on by religious affiliation	Ichingcarpenter	Aug 2013	#62
interestingly, it seems tied to how actively bounded and defined each group is	MisterP	Aug 2013	#128
Like many others here, I got 14 out of 15.	drm604	Aug 2013	#61
Huh...well I'm surprised...	pipi_k	Aug 2013	#63
Non religious, 14 out of 15. I was unfamiliar with the First Great Awakening...	DreamGypsy	Aug 2013	#64
Discussion of religion was par for the course in geography and history classes back in the day.	CBHagman	Aug 2013	#66
87% ~ 13 of 15	Grey	Aug 2013	#70
i know that i know nothing n/t	BOG PERSON	Aug 2013	#73
I "know" that it was probably "created" by clever men, who claimed to know	SoCalDem	Aug 2013	#76
It's the scurge of mankind. nt	valerief	Aug 2013	#77
93 percent	arely staircase	Aug 2013	#90
Religious Affiliation- doesn't list Pagan. Nor Pantheist. The questions were so general	KittyWampus	Aug 2013	#99
15/15	frogmarch	Aug 2013	#103
Perfect. and an atheist, how common. I've found that the more one learn about	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2013	#104
no trick questions??	handmade34	Aug 2013	#107
14/15.	temporary311	Aug 2013	#108
Here is the full 32-question quiz, as originally administered in the Pew survey, for those who are	kath	Aug 2013	#115
got them all too	treestar	Aug 2013	#132
I got 0% on that one...	Ms. Toad	Aug 2013	#160
I got 100% right on that one too. It's too easy.	MineralMan	Aug 2013	#133
Atheist, 32 of 32 correct.	truebluegreen	Aug 2013	#141
31/32	ReasonableToo	Aug 2013	#165
30/32 - missed that one and the faith alone one	Capt. Obvious	Aug 2013	#188
Look who did the best on this	Quixote1818	Aug 2013	#116
That it and it's gods are as phony as a $3 bill	Submariner	Aug 2013	#117
You shouldn't have done that to those nuns.	Orrex	Aug 2013	#119
not to mention the drunk priests	RainDog	Aug 2013	#164
14 out of 15	Blue_In_AK	Aug 2013	#118
That fact that I knew a bit means nothing about knowing about religion..	Tikki	Aug 2013	#124
14 of fifteen -- thought Jewish Sabbath started on Saturday./ nt	Demo_Chris	Aug 2013	#125
That's the only one I missed, too.	GoCubsGo	Aug 2013	#161
87%	treestar	Aug 2013	#129
15/15 n/t	RainDog	Aug 2013	#131
15/15 ......	oldhippie	Aug 2013	#136
93%.	nyquil_man	Aug 2013	#137
That must be an easy quiz	krawhitham	Aug 2013	#138
I got them all, though the last one was a guess	LeftishBrit	Aug 2013	#139
14/15 and I'm an Atheist.	BlueJazz	Aug 2013	#140
Asking when the Jewish Sabbath begins is a nasty trick question.	Donald Ian Rankin	Aug 2013	#142
15/15 with an unfair advantage	Jim Lane	Aug 2013	#143
13 out of 15 n/t	malaise	Aug 2013	#144
14/15. I've not heard of the First Great Awakening previously, guessed, and missed.	TransitJohn	Aug 2013	#145
To make it harder, one of the names was from the second great awakening 100 years later	Recursion	Aug 2013	#167
too easy. 100%	eShirl	Aug 2013	#146
15/15	LadyHawkAZ	Aug 2013	#147
Not a lot	tabasco	Aug 2013	#148
I got one wrong... not bad	nadinbrzezinski	Aug 2013	#149
15/15 Another Atheist.	wickerwoman	Aug 2013	#151
15/15 but Jonathan Edwards was a guess.	aquart	Aug 2013	#152
15/15 - Atheist	Paulie	Aug 2013	#154
15/15	Tuesday Afternoon	Aug 2013	#155
All questions answered correctly. They were super-easy.	LuvNewcastle	Aug 2013	#157
14 out of 15	LiberalElite	Aug 2013	#159
15/15 Correct	distantearlywarning	Aug 2013	#163
13/15. nt	City Lights	Aug 2013	#168
14/15	truth2power	Aug 2013	#169
I missed two	Chiennoir54	Aug 2013	#170
14 of 15, missed question 8	HarveyDarkey	Aug 2013	#171
15/15 -- 100% correct	HeiressofBickworth	Aug 2013	#173
14/15 - I missed the Nirvana question - but looking it up - I see that I wasn't completely off base	Douglas Carpenter	Aug 2013	#174
Yeah, I waivered on that one, too	deutsey	Aug 2013	#190
Jews, atheists and Mormons are particularly well informed	eridani	Aug 2013	#175
atheist here. Got 14 out of 15 but I guessed on many of them...	Phentex	Aug 2013	#183
Enough that it the term "religion" should be stricken as it is all "mythology"	snooper2	Aug 2013	#185
15 out of 15 correct	Capt. Obvious	Aug 2013	#186
The true religion "Nudism" was not represented there!	RedCloud	Aug 2013	#191
Not bad.	ChazII	Aug 2013	#193
15/15.	hrmjustin	Aug 2013	#195
15 of 15	Xyzse	Aug 2013	#197

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