Thursday, October 28, 2010

A New, More Difficult Religion Quiz

Nicholas Kristof offers a new quiz in response to the Pew's results from last week.  If you remember, the Pew Research Center found that atheists know more about religions than believers, that most Catholics don't understand the Eucharist, and that most Protestants don't know of Martin Luther's contribution to their own religion.  This test features 13 questions about more specific questions of religion.  I will admit that it was far more difficult than the other.  Kristof clearly had a hidden motive to this quiz.  Religion is far more difficult and a few questions can suggest.  
And yes, the point of this little quiz is that religion is more complicated than it sometimes seems, and that we should be wary of rushing to inflammatory conclusions about any faith, especially based on cherry-picking texts. The most crucial element is perhaps not what is in our scriptures, but what is in our hearts.
Good point.

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