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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s make your deception clear by truncating the long passages and getting right to the point.

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pp DID not "misrepresent" the data.

Also the only arguments against that data have been unsupported generalizations.[/quote]

Unsupported? PP provided actual questions from the survey asking, for example, where Jesus was born and when the Jewish sabbath starts.

This is hugely better than “pp” (aka you?) trying to claim this extremely general survey represents “actual data” (per 20:19) about how much atheists know about religion.

Do you have an honest bone in your body?[/quote]

Atheists have no need to be dishonest about religion.  They have rejected it, often after a lot of personal experience with it and a lot of study[/quote]

And yet, as the Pew survey showed, less than half (40%) of atheists could even name the four gospels. This wasn’t even a test of what the gospels say. Sounds pretty ignorant to me. [/quote]

But...atheists did better on the survey overall so...

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Breadth over depth. Atheists told Pew they knew India is majority Hindu, Indonesia is majority Muslim, Mother Theresa was Catholic, and church and state are separate here in the US. This is middle school stuff. But when Pew asked atheists about the particulars of any given religion, like Christianity, then the [b]atheists did much, much worse than actual adherents of that religion. [/b]

What’s your point, exactly? If you’re trying to build a case that atheists are qualified to debate theology with believers, and to tell believers what they’re “supposed” to believe (which you see atheists doing all the time here on DCUM), then the Pew results reject this hubris.

So....[/quote]

Which question(s) did the atheists do “much, much worse” answering than Christians?

[img]https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2010/09/religious-knowledge-09.png[/img]

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“Much, much worse” isn’t really accurate, is it?

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On knowledge of the gospels, it actually is.[/quote]

I wouldn't say 39 vs. 50 is "much, much worse" - particularly if you look at the breakdown of Christians and see that the atheists/agnostics did better than some Christians.

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