Interesting study, the numbers are closer than the title leads you to believe, and I was surprised how much weight they put on knowing details about other religions or history of the church verses Bible teachings. I was also surprised on the results of the bread and wine question. It would be interesting to see all of the questions, and if there is any past polls that would show you a trend line…even though we know how it is trending. The Bible tells us.
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Survey: Americans don’t know much about religion
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.
Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn’t know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a symbol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ.
More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. And about four in 10 Jews did not know that Maimonides, one of the greatest rabbis and intellectuals in history, was Jewish.
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