Survey: Atheists, Agnostics Know More About Religion Than Religious

[Lester Sasquatch]

http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/index.php

I got 'em ALL RIGHT! But then I had Santa, the leprechauns, and Pele (the goddess, not the soccer player) helping. And I took comparative religions in college -- which was where Coyote and I discovered peyote.

The test I took had 32 questions. It has the same questions as the one your link goes too and more.

[Anne]

I missed one.

[LOsborne]

Lester, please provide the link to the 32-question survey. I'm feeling lucky.

[Lester Sasquatch]

Lester, please provide the link to the 32-question survey. I'm feeling lucky.

The link no longer works. But if you are a genius you can pick them out of appendix B of the original report.

"The full wording of all questions and topline survey results are provided in Appendix B. "

http://pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Belief_and_Practices/religious-knowledge-topline.pdf

One question I recall was "Who wrote the novel Moby Dick".

[LOsborne]

Okay, I found, and knew the correct answer to, thirty (counting multi-part questions as multiple questions.) I didn't find any that I didn't know. Maybe I miscounted, or thought a couple of the religious questions were statistical control questions.

I know who wrote Moby Dick but I didn't count that question in my tally.

[Lester Sasquatch]

As far as folks being so ignorant of religion, there are some pretty dumb folks out there. Like the woman who was upset to learn that the Crunchberries in Cap'n Crunch are not real fruit. I thought it was very interesting to learn the litigant Janine Sugawara was an atheist. Using the powers of logic, which I read about in a Sherlock Holmes book, I can deduce that atheists know a lot more about religion than they do breakfast cereals containing brightly colored balls. Note that she was a "serial litigant", I assume that was a misspelling.

On May 21, 2009 Judge Morrison England, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed a complaint filed by serial litigant Janine Sugawara who said she had purchased "Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries" because she believed "crunchberries" were real fruit. Sugawara alleged that after four years of purchasing the product she had only recently discovered to her dismay that said "berries" were in fact simply brightly-colored cereal balls. The judge commented "In this case,... it is simply impossible for Plaintiff to file an amended complaint stating a claim based upon these facts. The survival of the instant claim would require this Court to ignore all concepts of personal responsibility and common sense. The Court has no intention of allowing that to happen."

[LOsborne]

Hmmmm.... something about this complaint is reminiscent of the ground-breaking Hamilton v Prewett litigation. How did you discover Ms. Sugawara is atheist?

Lester, you are awfully well-read for someone who lives in a cave.

[followsthewolf]

Yep. Ah thinks Lester is one a them there faker-outer, "aw-shucks" kinda boys whut acts like he ain't seen a book, but actually's been to Harvard Law Skool -- 'er sum wheres like that.

[Lester Sasquatch]

Hmmmm.... something about this complaint is reminiscent of the ground-breaking Hamilton v Prewett litigation. How did you discover Ms. Sugawara is atheist?

Lester, you are awfully well-read for someone who lives in a cave.

I have quite a library after Rufus Taylor stole the Martin County Bookmobile and threw out all them books to make room for his still. Took me darn near four nights to pack them books back to the homestead.

Somewhere I read where Sugawara said she could no longer believe in God because after the shocking revelation that crunchberries were actually man made, she had doubts that the Bible was the true word of God and thought that it was probably man made too. According to Sugawara the perfect qualities of these tasty spheres led her to believe only a perfect all knowing deity could create such absolute edible perfection of color, shape, taste, and texture as found in the Capt'n Crunch Crunchberries. When she discovered they were actually made by Quaker Oats, Sugawara was left psychologically devastated and suffered a mental breakdown because she always thought Quakers were deeply religious people whom she trusted to provide her with a breakfast cereal that not only tasted good, but was nutritional as well. No where on the box of Capt'n Crunch does the company acknowledge that Crunchberries are man made.

Mr. Foller the Wolf, I don't know how much you know about us Bigfoots but we aren't usually welcome in public schools. For the most part we are all home schooled except for my Uncle Wyndham who performed a full body shave for 6 years till he graduated from 6th grade.

[Lester Sasquatch]

You know, in case followsthewolf asks me a technical or historical question about Capt'n Crunch, I thought I would check out the the website which can be found here:

http://www.capncrunch.com/

Imagine my shock when I saw the picture of a small child, dressed as Rambo holding a broomstick as a makeshift rifle, with a wide smile on his face as he guns down his imaginary foes. The father is standing next to the poor kid instructing the child on the proper technique to throw a hand grenade using a hair brush as a visual aid. If you are observant, you can see the father has just pulled the imaginary pin on the grenade with his teeth and is ready to lob it.  You would think the mother, standing in the background would be appalled at her husband teaching such violent things to her small son but she appears to be cheering them on. I cannot be sure but I believe I see someone, likely a Homeland Security Officer, looking in the family's window too. Is it no wonder that humans are about to make themselves extinct? More power to them, but please don't destroy the peaceful Bigfoot's habitat.

[The Troll]

You know, in case followsthewolf asks me a technical or historical question about Capt'n Crunch, I thought I would check out the the website which can be found here:

http://www.capncrunch.com/

Imagine my shock when I saw the picture of a small child, dressed as Rambo holding a broomstick as a makeshift rifle, with a wide smile on his face as he guns down his imaginary foes. The father is standing next to the poor kid instructing the child on the proper technique to throw a hand grenade using a hair brush as a visual aid. If you are observant, you can see the father has just pulled the imaginary pin on the grenade with his teeth and is ready to lob it.  You would think the mother, standing in the background would be appalled at her husband teaching such violent things to her small son but she appears to be cheering them on. I cannot be sure but I believe I see someone, likely a Homeland Security Officer, looking in the family's window too. Is it no wonder that humans are about to make themselves extinct? More power to them, but please don't destroy the peaceful Bigfoot's habitat.

  Oh, give me a break.  What are we doing, raising a bunch of sissies and pussies who don't know how to fight or defend themselves.

  I don't know old you are, but hell when I was a kid we played cowboy and Indian, American soldier and Japs.  We live a long time in this country, good time with making girls out of our boys.

[LOsborne]

  Oh, give me a break.  What are we doing, raising a bunch of sissies and pussies who don't know how to fight or defend themselves.

  I don't know old you are, but hell when I was a kid we played cowboy and Indian, American soldier and Japs.  We live a long time in this country, good time with making girls out of our boys.

WHOOOOSH!! As the point once again streaks over ol' Troll's noggin and heads for the stratosphere.

[The Troll]

WHOOOOSH!! As the point once again streaks over ol' Troll's noggin and heads for the stratosphere.

  WHOOOOSH,   If you want to write fiction, write it somewhere else. 

[LOsborne]

  WHOOOOSH,   If you want to write fiction, write it somewhere else. 

No, thank you. A tale well told has its own virtue. Your approval is not needed.

[The Troll]

No, thank you. A tale well told has its own virtue. Your approval is not needed.

      HR person.  In my past experiences with HR people, I have found them all are anal retentive.  That is what I have found in all of your correspondence to me.  Always cutting my ass.