Aargh.

Little Hawk and Jim Dixon, my husband, who is a non-affiliated Christian (and a physicist, and who the habit of doing his homework on both fronts) is also not surprised at the public's ignorance about religion. He says that most people's approach to religion is cultural, and doesn't involve much attention to the details of theology.

The full details of the survey are now accessible. I'm going to actually take a look at it. Little Hawk's and Steamin' Willie's dismissal of the results on the blanket assumption that all surveys are biased is pretty sad: no valid research on human behavior is possible? Because of that assumption one shouldn't even bother to look? Please.

Bill D thanks for your input. I'm looking forward to the upcoming PBS series for just that reason.

The short summary of the survey results provide an interesting headline, but it's the details that I'm curious about.

The rest of you: there's already another two threads full of hundreds of posts with your arguments for and against. In this thread I'd like to discuss further details of the survey's results and the topic of religious literacy. Anyone else up for it?

~ Becky in Long Beach