Perhaps you heard about this survey in America. A phonepoll group did a survey asking questions about religion. From 32 questions, Atheists averaged 20.9, Protestants 16 and Catholics 14.7.
It's tempting (if you consider your self a protestant) to wipe your brow in relief and say "Whew! Just passed! At least we beat the Catholics." But that's not the comparison i'm looking at.
The survey is about religion - and Christians know the least!
OK, so the questions were on all religions, but why are Christians the most ignorant when it comes to understanding our neighbours of different beliefs. These are the same neighbours we are called to love. Have we become so insular that we understand only those in the same little niche as ours. (See Black Box Theory). Remember, this was a test about religion - Christians should be way up the top of the class. Or at least as high as atheists. That would be less embarrassing ;)
Anyway, you can do a sample from the test yourself. I got 14/15 and my friend 13/15. You'll probably do quite well. Maybe the selected 15 are the easiest from the original poll, or it maybe it's just that we're not American ;)
More about the poll here and here. In the second of these articles it says that only 57% of Protestants could name the 4 Gospels. That's probably a whole separate blog post just there!
[Full report on the survey here]
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