Atheists, Agnostics Smarter About Religion? Take the Quiz

Phew! I just took this survey from The Pew forum on Religion and Public Life and scored 100%, thankfully. It’s interesting to note that I scored better than 99% of the public. (It’s a very simple 15 question test, really.)

How well do you think you’ll do? According to the article below atheists and agnostics did pretty well, outperforming Protestants and Roman Catholics.

Take the survey by clicking here before you read the article (it gives away some answers), then write in the comments how well you did.

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. Read the rest by clicking here.

***IN OTHER NEWS…

Fourth Grader Barred from Recess Bible Reading

A five-year struggle for one Tennessee student’s religious liberties entered a new legal phase on Tuesday.

In 2005, the then-10-year-old Karns Elementary student and a few classmates read and discussed their Bibles during a recess period. When an unnamed parent complained, the principal ordered the student-led study to be stopped.

The Spit and Argue Club

Before Ray Comfort preached at the Huntington Beach pier in the open air, there was the Long Beach “Spit and Argue Club.” The story goes that in the 1880s, a woman spotted some tobacco-chewing debaters on the veranda of the Long Beach Hotel and complained to a friend: “All they do is spit and argue.”