Religious knowledge survey

[sawyl]

Via the Guardian, I found a link to the Pew Forum quiz parts of where used in their survey of US religious knowledge which found that, on average, atheists seem to know about religions and religious dogmas than believers.

I'm not surprised. People who make a conscious decision to reject an existing belief system usually does so after giving due consideration to the various different sides of the argument. Whereas someone who has never questioned their beliefs might be expected to be less familiar with the arguments in favour of their position. For, as Mill says:

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion. The rational position for him would be suspension of judgment, and unless he contents himself with that, he is either led by authority, or adopts, like the generality of the world, the side to which he feels most inclination.

Mill, J.S., On Liberty in Gray, J. (ed), (1991), On Liberty and Other Essays, OUP, 42

So, how did I do? I aced it, of course. The filial piety I owe to my RE teacher wouldn't let me do otherwise.