{"id":2574,"date":"2010-09-30T07:10:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T11:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2010-09-29T08:29:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T12:29:18","slug":"are-you-smarter-than-an-atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/09\/are-you-smarter-than-an-atheist.html","title":{"rendered":"Are you smarter than an atheist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/39397251\/from\/toolbar\">survey of Americans<\/a> shows that atheists know more about major religions than any other group.\u00a0 In fact, Jews, agnostics, and Mormons even out performed Protestants and Catholics.\u00a0 The survey asked 32 questions covering basics of many religions including Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teamxbox.com\/xbox\/17243\/Are-You-Smarter-Than-a-5th-Grader-Coming-to-XBLA\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Smarter Than...\" src=\"http:\/\/media.teamxbox.com\/games\/ss\/2097\/1217877710.jpg\" alt=\"Smarter Than...\" width=\"355\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s tempting to blame the poor performance of Christians on the bubble effect.\u00a0 Most people in this country get very little exposure to other religions.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a topic emphasized at school, and it&#8217;s not a popular self-study topic either.\u00a0 Although the fact that 45% of Catholics didn&#8217;t know that the Eucharist becomes the body and blood of Christ indicates there&#8217;s more sleeping going on during mass than most priests might have imagined.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also not surprising that atheists did well on this survey.\u00a0 Most atheists are not such out of ignorance.\u00a0 Rather, it is the spot arrived at after a journey through many schools of religious thought.\u00a0 Ironically perhaps, the more you know about all religions, the harder it is to believe in any one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey of Americans shows that atheists know more about major religions than any other group.\u00a0 In fact, Jews, agnostics,<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/09\/are-you-smarter-than-an-atheist.html\" title=\"Read Are you smarter than an atheist?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}