Survay:Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion

[Tank]

I got all but one. Did not know that the Catholics actually think the bread and wine really becomes flesh and blood. That's creepy.

It's called transubstantiation. Person I know who is Catholic is gluten intolerant so can't eat the communion wafers, so she pockets them and gives them to her dog when she gets home  

[PoopShoot]

I got all but one. Did not know that the Catholics actually think the bread and wine really becomes flesh and blood. That's creepy.

It's called transubstantiation. Person I know who is Catholic is gluten intolerant so can't eat the communion wafers, so she pockets them and gives them to her dog when she gets home  

So she feeds Jesus to her dog?  It's pretty telling that she doesn't really believe it becomes flesh because her excuse isn't that she can't eat meat.

[NearBr0ken]

It's disappointing that with our knowledge of biochemistry and molecular chemistry, that a belief akin to alchemy can still survive scrutiny.

[PoopShoot]

It's disappointing that with our knowledge of biochemistry and molecular chemistry, that a belief akin to alchemy can still survive scrutiny.

It's not akin to alchemy.  Alchemy is the transmutation of materials through physical, natural means.  Alchemy actually takes place in the real world, though very differently and by different means than the alchemists thought, in the form of chemical reactions that produce new compounds.  Transubstantiation of the host in catholicism is thought to be purely magical by means of god willing it to happen.

[Heretical Rants]

I got two wrong, and that still scored me as being in the 97th percentile.

Wow.

[DropLogic]

heh, so wait...eating his flesh and drinking his blood would make us zombies right?  So its like zombie cannibalism.

[dloubet]

No, the Catholics eating Jesus' flesh make them cannibals. But since Jesus died and then walked around, he pretty closely fits the definition of zombie. So the Catholics are eating zombie flesh.

Bleah!

[Sophus]

I got all but one. Did not know that the Catholics actually think the bread and wine really becomes flesh and blood. That's creepy.

It's called transubstantiation. Person I know who is Catholic is gluten intolerant so can't eat the communion wafers, so she pockets them and gives them to her dog when she gets home  roflol This makes me want to take my dog to sunday mass.

[Velma]

Took the 32 question survey - 32/32.  Pretty basic info for the most part.

[LarryS]

couldnt say i was suprised by this. i know a lot more about the bible than my christian friends do

[Velma]

couldnt say i was suprised by this. i know a lot more about the bible than my christian friends do

It is a bit funny and sad when you can tell them things they don't know about their own holy book or doctrine/theology.

[Will]

We don't pick and choose what to read. When I read the Bible or the Qur'an or whatever, I don't avoid reading about anything because it might test my faith or whatever. I don't avoid information about other 'faiths', either. I've read the Torah cover to cover, the Bible cover to cover (several versions, in fact), the Qur'an, the Book of Mormon, the Tao Te Ching, the Dhammapada, and the Bhagavad Gita, as well as writings on dead mythology. What Christian can claim the same?

[Velma]

We don't pick and choose what to read. When I read the Bible or the Qur'an or whatever, I don't avoid reading about anything because it might test my faith or whatever. I don't avoid information about other 'faiths', either. I've read the Torah cover to cover, the Bible cover to cover (several versions, in fact), the Qur'an, the Book of Mormon, the Tao Te Ching, the Dhammapada, and the Bhagavad Gita, as well as writings on dead mythology. What Christian can claim the same?

Not very many, I'm sure.

[DropLogic]

We don't pick and choose what to read. When I read the Bible or the Qur'an or whatever, I don't avoid reading about anything because it might test my faith or whatever. I don't avoid information about other 'faiths', either. I've read the Torah cover to cover, the Bible cover to cover (several versions, in fact), the Qur'an, the Book of Mormon, the Tao Te Ching, the Dhammapada, and the Bhagavad Gita, as well as writings on dead mythology. What Christian can claim the same?

How has your head not exploded?  I got about 1/4 into the Bible and then  

[Will]

I read the Bible when I was 11-12 (NIV), then again when I lost my religion (NKJ). Fortunately, other religious texts seem to be much shorter than the Bible.