Religious Knowledge

[The Lurker (imported)]

14 of 15, knew them all cold except the last one...

[TheOtherSide (imported)]

15/15 here, with the last one being essentially a coin toss.

[Dave (imported)]

14 of 15. The last question was wrong.

See Post 17. I got question#15 wrong, not Pew. (added 4 hrs late)

[Snapcase (imported)]

This Aussie heretic got 12 out of 15. For question 15 hadonly heard of Billy Graeme (did not want to cheat and Google the info).

[transward (imported)]

14 of 15. The last question was wrong.

How so? Question was:

Question 15 of 15

Which one of these preachers participated in the period of religious activity known as the First Great Awakening?

Jonathan Edwards

Charles Finney

Billy Graham

Most historians consider there to be three "Great Awakenings" (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Awakening)

The First Great Awakening began in 1725 and lasted to about 1750. Ministers from various evangelical Protestant denominations supported the Great Awakening. Indeed, for an age of denominational strife and competition, the Awakening was strikingly ecumenical. Additionally, pastoral styles began to change. In the late colonial period, most pastors read their sermons, which were theologically dense and advanced a particular theological argument or interpretation. Leaders of the Awakening such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield had little interest in merely engaging parishioners' minds; they wanted far more to elicit an emotional response from their audience, ...The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States, which expressed Arminian theology by which every person could be saved through revivals. It enrolled millions of new members, and led to the formation of new denominations. Many converts believed that the Awakening heralded a new millennial age. The Second Great Awakening stimulated the establishment of many reform movements designed to remedy the evils of society before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.[1]

Thus the answer would be Jonathan Edwards, though a minority consider only the second as a "Great Awakening," which would make Charles Finney the correct answer.

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[Wildgeese1798 (imported)]

This agnostic Buddhist1 got 100% on the quiz. What’s your score2?

Pew survey on religious knowledge:

http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-re ... knowledge/

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1 The earliest surviving collection of sayings directly attributed to the Buddha has him saying to his followers, “Gods would be a good idea, if there were any.”

2 After you complete the survey, you can compare your score with various categories of respondents. In general, Christians did far worse than atheists or agnostics. Evangelical Christians did worse than Mainstream Christians. Does faith really preclude knowledge???

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MY score 97% I am an atheist

[Dave (imported)]

How so? Question was:

Most historians consider there to be three "Great Awakenings" (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Awakening)

Thus the answer would be Jonathan Edwards, though a minority consider only the second as a "Great Awakening," which would make Charles Finney the correct answer.

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Sorry, I seem to have used too few words and obscured my answer...

I guessed Charles Finney only knowing that it wasn't Billy Graham because the Great Awakening happened before his ministry. I guessed wrong.

The right answer was Jonathan Edwards. Which I didn't know.

Pew didn't do anything wrong.

[tugon (imported)]

I was wrong on two questions. I missed the catholic question regarding communion. What was I doing during 12 years of catholic school. The other was the question regarding reaching Nirvana.

Oh and my score was 87% and I scored better than 93% of the public.

[Riverwind (imported)]

missed three, 80%. the three I totally guessed at.

River

[fhunter]

9 out of 15. 60%

Missed questions about Jewish Sabbath, catholic Communion, and US laws. Joseph Smith? Who is he?!? First Great Awakening?

Not religious. If I finally believe - it would be in science and technology progress .