Tuesday, February 01, 2005

A Nation of Religious Illiterates

Came across this essay on another blog today and found the data very insightful.

"According to a 1997 poll, only one out of three U.S. citizens is able to name the most basic of Christian texts, the four Gospels, and 12% think Noah's wife was Joan of Arc."

1 comment:

Trickish Knave said...

I got my B.S.O.E. from a Baptist college and I had to take a mandatory religion class. I took Old Testament history and the first day of class we had a pop quiz- name all 10 commandments, in order. Well, I named them all but they certainly weren't in order.

I wonder how many of these fundamentalist Christians who always bitch about the ten commandments being taken out of public places could pass that pop quiz.