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Thread #132417   Message #2997187
Posted By: Slag
30-Sep-10 - 06:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey
Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey
Second look, first posting here.

Well, Joe, amazingly I also score 100%! What were the odds? Well, I didn't get the one about personal income correct but, hey! I never do get that one right!

The questions were simple and probably good survey questions for general knowledge about things religious. It would be interesting to see a correlation between level of interest and actual knowledge. The most "esoteric" question was the one about Johnathan Edwards as he has not been much in the news of late. I heard James Whitfield mentioned on Glen Beck's sermonette the other day. Whitfield would have made a great question on the survey as would the "Great Awakening".

They could have also mentioned Parmahansa Yogananda, Vivekanda, Emanuel Swedenborg (of whom John Chapman was follower) What? You don't know who John Chapman was!!??? (No!, not the guitarist!), and the Great Sky Fairy!