Nontheists Know More About Religion - Pew Survey

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/28/pew-forum-religious-knowledge-survey...

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[ihavemonkeysinmybutt]

@KaoriOnyx7 Yeah it might be but the difference between Catholicism and Protestantism is like night and day, and if you researched Christianity you would know this. They are sub-groups that have totally different viewpoints on everything. In fact some Protestant sub-groups believe that the Pope is the anti-Christ. To include Catholics with Protestants in one group is one of the most ignorant comments I've ever seen.

[ThePhantom135]

The only reason the Bible survived for all these years is because when the Church was first starting out, only the priests had access to the text. They would have the poor, illiterate commoners gather in churches and read brief passages to them. The rate of non-theism is rising because, guess what? PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO READ!! The monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Muslim) will eventually die off and their "holy" texts will be displayed in museums not in bookstores.

[familyguyad]

i only had to study christianity and analyze the bible when i became an atheist when i was 14

[familyguyad]

i'm not surprised

[GuillermoSTD]

To me, this is the only logical explanation... how else could you explain that such a large percentage of the general population actually believes in religions that talk about magic tricks, bogus pseudo-science, and mystical babbling? Well.. because in the end, most people only remember the punchlines...

[deepeyes001]

Since it was done in the U.S, I don't think they have included the "hindu"s. I don't think many hindus know what they are following.

P.S I did not write this to troll. I was raised as a hindu.

[BELLYBUTTONPRODUCION]

@ihavemonkeysinmybutt its amazing at least one other person knows about religions like me

[AssistingHealth]

@oglow100 supreme design does not guarantee a designer that is a deity named yahweh and translated into "god" in english.

2 no, the law of cause does not say there will be an uncaused cause... did you just make that up? if not, where did you get that information from?

3 yes, it could have occured just like that. if it did then it just did. just because you make a statement doesn't mean it's true. if it did occur like that... then it did. whether you agree or not. it's outside of you.

[AssistingHealth]

@oglow100 wait, you worship god BECAUSE you don't know how he did something? what? i think you are meaning to put across something different than what you are posting here...

[AssistingHealth]

@oglow100 see, here is where the atheists get upset... you weren't there so you don't have much EVIDENCE, which is why you have FAITH that it happened. which is why people say so often "do you have faith in jesus?" not "do you KNOW that jesus is god?" well, to know that jesus was god and did miracles and whatnot you would have to be over 1 thousand years old... not likely. so FAITH is what you are using, not knowledge (maybe so, but only in the loose definition of knowledge).

[AssistingHealth]

@oglow100 usually "know" is experiential.. i don't think the human body is equipped with the ability to interact with anything that is "diety-oriented". our bodies seem to have some different devices... they are made for interacting with the REAL world. so, to be more accurate is to say "we think he did" or "we have faith that he did".

when you say you "know" it projects a bit of know-it-all-ness like "i am 100% certain because i was there".

Christianity is FAITH-BASED not KNOWLEDGE-BASED.