In a recent poll of over 3,400 Americans, the Pew Forum on Religion ironically found that atheists and agnostics know more about religions than do believers. Here is the abstract:
Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on [...]
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Over at WaPo’s Faith section, Martha Woodroof has posted a dreary piece that discourages people from asking religious questions or seeking answers. Here are some of the more defeatist excerpts:
As people of faith, should we concern ourselves with God’s nature, relatives, ways and history? I, for one, think we should not. It seems to [...]
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