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[skull_bearer]

So there's this test which has been goign around, which tests how much people know about religion. It's one of those 'oh god America is stupid' tests, which only seem to exist to provide ten inch high headlines about how the most powerful country in the world is inhabited by people who can't tell their arse from their elbows. Most Americans I know are much cleverer than that, but then I live in the UK.

So anyway, this test is online, and I thought 'what the hey, I'll give it a try'. Now I do feel I might have an unfair advantage here, because London is so multicultural that you run into people of every religion on a daily basis, particularly here, where we have a mormon temple and a hard-line muslim mosque within spitting distance of each other, and the existance of the only local cinema is under threat from a bunch of dickbags who want another fucking church. If religion exists at an inverse correlation with intelligence, then this is retard-central.

So I took the test, and got 93%, with only one question wrong. I really would like to know how anyone could get these questions wrong, because all bar one were really obvious, like 'What was Mother Theresa's religion?' and 'What is Ramadan?' I mean, I don't even need to go into my 'learn about religion so we can scrap it' research for this, I learnt this in primary school! I don't know, maybe it was a really good primary school? It's not the first time I've discovered I know more about religion than actual religious people, I had a discussion with a rather creepy Catholic aquaintance, and he didn't know there was a prophet in the old testament who called up two bears to kill 42 kids because the children were taunting him about being bald (I wish I was making it up, wtf christians/jews?!).

Well, you all know my opinion about religion: a bunch of rubbish used by dickbags and imbibed by people who don't quite get that believing in something really really hard still doesn't make it true. Fine if you keep it to yourself, but at best annoying and at worse really dangerous when they push it on other people.

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[tarangryph.livejournal.com]

I got 100% on the test, but only because I've followed the debate on another forum and learned the answer to the question on Jonathan Edwards there, otherwise I'd probably have failed that one. But apart from this specific American reference, the questions were surprisingly easy. I'm not sure which is worst; the average American knowing so little about other religions or about their own religion - as it's said, atheism is an effect of knowledge, not lack of knowledge. If more people knew exactly what they were worshipping, maybe they wouldn't be so determined to do away with logical thinking and the scientific method. >_>