Over at Huffpost Religion, Bruce Feiler makes some useful observations about the Pew Forum's U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey.
He writes:
The headlines this week were bold: "Americans Don't Know Much About Religion"; "Atheists Know More About Religion Than Believers"; "Basic Religious Test Stumps Most Americans."
Eh? Did these writers read the survey these articles were based on? The Pew Forum survey on religious knowledge in America contained a number of revelations and surprises, but few were covered in the initial articles. After reading the actual results, here are four important truths about Americans and God.
Those truths are:
1. Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.
2. The most popular religious figure in America is Moses
3. Believers still dominate in America; atheists are not gaining ground.
4. Americans know as much about other religions as they know about their own.
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