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Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Sep 28, 2010 12:12pm |
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| Author | Mitchell Landsberg |
| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 05:10:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | If you want to know about God, you might want to talk to an atheist.
Heresy? Perhaps. But a survey that measured Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists and agnostics knew more, on average, than followers of most major faiths. In fact, the gaps in knowledge among some of the faithful may give new meaning to the term "blind faith."
A majority of Protestants, for instance, couldn't identify Martin Luther as the driving force behind the Protestant Reformation, according to the survey, released Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Four in 10 Catholics misunderstood the meaning of their church's central ritual, incorrectly saying that the bread and wine used in Holy Communion are intended to merely symbolize the body and blood of Christ, not actually become them.
American atheists and agnostics tend to be people who grew up in a religious tradition and consciously gave it up, often after a great deal of reflection and study, said Alan Cooperman, associate director for research at the Pew Forum. |
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