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Why on earth are you limiting this to Catholics?  Christians in general (50%) are better at naming the gospels than atheists (39%). [/quote]
Atheists/agnostics had a higher number of correct answers than Christians overall. The last column on the right.[/quote]

Because atheists did better on Old Testament questions.

Atheists bombed the questions about the New Testament—the basis of Christian faith. [b]Compare atheists’ score of 39% for naming the four gospels to 71% of evangelicals and 57% of Protestants. [/b](I’m too am confused about why you’re choosing to cherry pick the subset of Catholics.)

You’ve also been told multiple times that this survey does not assess in-depth knowledge of any particular faith. The survey was never designed to do that, and you’re distorting it beyond recognition. These are extremely broad and shallow questions designed to assess broad knowledge of all faiths. The fact that 39% of atheists could name the four gospels says nothing about their knowledge of the message in the gospels. Some atheists may know that Ramadan is Islam’s holy month, but the survey never asked whether they know the five pillars of Islam. Some atheists may know that most South Indians are Hindu, but the survey didn’t ask if they know who Ganesh is. And so on and do on.

You’re distorting the survey beyond all recognition. You’re trying to make a general survey of broad knowledge into something it’s not, a survey of particular expertise in particular religions. [/quote]

There are multiple posters. I’m the PP who mentioned the Catholic’s score. Only because someone posted that the atheists/agnostics scored “much, much worse” than others which wasn’t true. Why are YOU cherry picking evangelicals and Protestants?

Yes, the survey looks at broad knowledge of religion. And atheists/agnostics scored well. Which was exactly how the survey was presented. Nothing more. Nothing is being distorted or misrepresented.

Here was quote from that survey PP again:
[i]“Actually, research shows that on average, atheists know more about religion than religious people do. ”[/i]

And here is the first paragraph of the executive summary of the survey: 
[i]“Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.”[/i]

You seem very disturbed by the results of this survey. Why is that?

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So why the eff do you keep bringing up a survey you keep admitting is totally meaningless for any point you’re trying to make about atheists’ alleged knowledge of Christianity? Also, projecting about people being “disturbed” makes you look like a middle schooler. [/quote]

I think you have some posters confused. I'm not trying to make a point about Christianity. Like the PP said, "on average, atheists know more about religion than religious people do".

So you are not disturbed? Then why are you so hostile and calling people names?

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