Are you smarter than an atheist? A religious quiz

[Yorktown]

Test yourself on religion:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0105/Are-you-smarter-than-an-atheist-A-religious-quiz/When-does-the-Jewish-Sabbath-begin


(Only two questions halfway tricky)

[arcane1]

1. I missed three, would've been two had I not been so rapid n/t

[SpookyDem]

2. not very well

78% I missed a few easy ones by thinking they were trick questions

[Buzz Clik]

3. Smarter than an atheist? Well,...

... I got a higher score on this test than the average atheist.

[Yorktown]

4. You can't know that for sure

The average is that of readers, and it's a religious website.

[Buzz Clik]

5. -1 for playing semantics

-1 for thinking the Christian Science Monitor is a religious website.

[Yorktown]

7. The Christian Science Monitor has strong links to the Church of its creator

Who's playing semantics now?

[Warren Stupidity]

14. yikes somebody has brought the 'tude to something that was fun.

[Fumesucker]

6. Eh..

[Yorktown]

8. Looks like atheists know their religious stuff

My score:

[exboyfil]

9. Missed one

Missed Maimonides. I honestly know nothing about him. I plan to learn.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

10. I missed 2.

I misread the 'salvation through faith alone' one, and I had no clue who Jonathan Edwards was.

But since I'm an atheist, I guess I'm not smarter than an atheist.

[edhopper]

16. I missed only those two as well

the faith alone thing was something I heard from fundies, so I guess it depends on the church.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

17. I think they're actually saying

'through faith alone' is different than 'through Jesus Christ alone', and I was being overly generous when I equated the two. Still fuzzy on that one.

[edhopper]

18. Yeah, that was worded squishy.

[safeinOhio]

11. Score 94%

But, I'm just a humble Atheist.

[longship]

12. Missed three.

I should have known that Protestants were the ones who advocate faith above acts.

Who are Jonathan Edwards?
Who is Maimonides?

I need to read more.

[Warren Stupidity]

13. Easy.

32 Correct 0 Wrong 100%
You answered 32 of 32 questions correctly for a total score of 100%.

[stage left]

15. I'm not smarter than an atheist.

I am an atheist. And I missed three.

interesting.

Are you smarter than an atheist? A religious quiz
Quiz results

Your score
29 Correct
3 Wrong
91%
You answered 29 of 32 questions correctly for a total score of 91%.

[struggle4progress]

19. 100%

I wouldn't have known about the Great Awakening, except it was discussed in a class I took many decades ago

[beam me up scottie]

20. 94% You answered 30 of 32 questions correctly for a total score of 94%

Not bad for a heathen who was raised without religion.

Faith alone and the Great Awakening tripped me up.

But I learned something so it's all good.

[F4lconF16]

23. Same.

Pretty good given I know very little about religion, because I can't bring myself to give enough of a crap about the minute differnces between any of them.

Trying to read the bible and it's hell. Why do people like this? It's awful by almost any metric I can think of. I need the skeptics version to keep me sane.

[beam me up scottie]

24. The Skeptic's Annotated Bible is great!

Of course the religionists don't agree, they think you need to be a biblical scholar to understand the bible and religion.

See PZ Myers' The Courtier's Reply for more on that.

[BlueJazz]

28. Same

[beam me up scottie]

30. Interesting.

I know much more about religion than my s/o and his brothers, he's a lapsed Catholic and they're right wing Christians.

The holidays are always a real blast since they found out I'm an atheist.

[BlueJazz]

31. "The holidays are always a real blast since they found out I'm an atheist."

Yeah, I get that also. Somebody usually says "Just look at this beautiful day. How can you possibly think there is not a god?"

I just bite my tongue and think to myself...Don't-go-there.

[Behind the Aegis]

41. Faith alone was the only one I missed.

Since I scored so high does this mean I am no longer a Jew?

[beam me up scottie]

42. Come over to the dark side, we have cookies!

[Behind the Aegis]

43. Tempting. I would invite you to "our" side....

...but we don't do that!

And we have rugalah!

[beam me up scottie]

44. I've had rugalach!

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And many other wonderful Jewish dishes, my mom was a fantastic cook. She even made bagels from scratch. Now I don't believe in heaven but if it did exist they would serve fresh hot bagels out of the oven.

[Yorktown]

45. Gravad lax bagel with a sprinkling of dill in top

[No Vested Interest]

21. 100%

[AtheistCrusader]

22. 31 out of 32.

'by faith alone, catholics/protestants' caught me out. Thought it was a trick question.

Had to take it twice though. Their click-bait adserver bullshit vapor locked on page 28 the first time through.

[Bradical79]

25. 86% (I'm an atheist)

I feel like I'd have gotten all but one a few years ago, but today I struggled to remember which biblical name fit which story lol.

[gwheezie]

26. 100% atheist

I think religion is interesting. I just don't believe any of it.

[COLGATE4]

27. 100%

[Half-Century Man]

29. Missed two

Claimed religion in Indonesia and First Great Awakening.

[Nay]

32. I'm an atheist and I only missed 2. nt

[Act_of_Reparation]

33. 100%

[gcomeau]

34. Well...

...they don't even list the correct answer for question 7, which was expected. But as a plus they at least recognized they didn't and provided what the correct answer was in the explanation after you chose the wrong answer they were obviously expecting most people to choose as the "correct" one.

The rest were easy, 100% for this atheist...

[mr blur]

35. Knowledge of the Bible is a measure of intelligence, now?

Wow, most of the people over at Rapture Ready must be up there at Genius level.

(2 wrong)

[pokerfan]

36. 100%

but I had to guess at the great awaking question.

[Angry Dragon]

37. missed two ............. #12 and 20

[Capt. Obvious]

38. One wrong

Has no idea about the Friday Awakening

[backscatter712]

39. 100%. Does that make me smarter than an atheist?

Well, I am an atheist, so I set the bar high...

[Behind the Aegis]

40. 31 out of 32

Then again, I am Jewish.