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« on: September 28, 2010, 09:05:54 am »

...because it's likely he or she will know more than those of organized religion:

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/dont-know-much-about-religion-youre-not-alone-study-finds/?hpt=C1
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« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2010, 09:12:40 am »

Townsend beat you to it.
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« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2010, 12:34:54 pm »

Townsend beat you to it.


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http://www.tulsanow.org/forum/index.php?topic=16298.msg177527#new
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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2010, 12:40:28 pm »

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« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2010, 03:20:41 pm »

I'm an agnostic/atheist, and I got 15/15 on the quiz.  I did guess on the last question but I got it right.
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« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2010, 04:30:03 pm »

I'm an agnostic/atheist, and I got 15/15 on the quiz.  I did guess on the last question but I got it right.

You are agnostic/atheist? You got 100% on the quiz but are simultaneously unsure of the existence of God while disbelieving God's existence?
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« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2010, 05:22:38 pm »

You are agnostic/atheist? You got 100% on the quiz but are simultaneously unsure of the existence of God while disbelieving God's existence?

Atheists don't so much actively disbelieve as not believe in the absence of evidence to support the "theory" (I use the term very loosely) of religion.

I only got 9 of 10 right because I wrongly thought that only 40ish percent of Indonesians were Muslim.
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« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2010, 05:32:28 pm »

Atheists don't so much actively disbelieve as not believe in the absence of evidence to support the "theory" (I use the term very loosely) of religion.

I only got 9 of 10 right because I wrongly thought that only 40ish percent of Indonesians were Muslim.

I got 9 of 10 right also, but only because I forgot that the Jewish Sabbath started on Friday, and not Saturday.

And Gweed, the quiz doesn't ask you if you are faith-based, it asks what you know of it.  Wow.
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« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2010, 05:41:01 pm »

I got 9 of 10 right also, but only because I forgot that the Jewish Sabbath started on Friday, and not Saturday.

And Gweed, the quiz doesn't ask you if you are faith-based, it asks what you know of it.  Wow.
I did the same thing on that.  I missed the indonesia one because for some reason I read it as India. Stoopid ADD
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« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2010, 05:51:04 pm »

10 out of 10. And I could answer all the other questions in the article too. 

And this is from a gay, agnostic, liberal, recovering southern baptist.
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« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2010, 07:37:42 pm »

And this is from a gay, agnostic, liberal, recovering southern baptist.

Well, at least you have one thing going for you.
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« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2010, 08:44:03 pm »

Well, at least you have one thing going for you.
That he's not judgmental?
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« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2010, 11:04:32 pm »

That he's not judgmental?

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« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2010, 07:03:52 am »

That he's not judgmental?

If so, he's the only one on this forum.

Gay and agnostic are neither a "+" nor "-"
Liberal is definitely a "-" (in my book)
That leaves Recovering Southern Baptist as a definite "+".
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« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2010, 07:45:39 am »

You are agnostic/atheist? You got 100% on the quiz but are simultaneously unsure of the existence of God while disbelieving God's existence?

Theism/atheism is about belief.  Gnosticism/agnosticism is about knowledge.  I don't believe in a god, but I know it's impossible to know whether there is a god or not, so I'm an agnostic atheist.
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