Atheism and IQ

[Sweetdeath]

I chose the Billy Graham answer only cuz two bad guys in Gundam 00 are named Billy and Graham. <~~ nerd

[MinnesotaMike]

stumbled upon this while looking for related articles.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0105/Are-you-smarter-than-an-atheist-A-religious-quiz/When-does-the-Jewish-Sabbath-begin

only missed 5 questions...if you take it post your scores.

28/32

Didn't know Catholics were going for cannibalism (thought the bread and wine were only metaphors), thought the Dalai Lama was Hindu, said the Pakistani were predominantly Christian against my better judgement, and wasn't sure which definition of "book" they were using for the first book of the Christian bible. I just had my Catholic lady friend take it too, and she scored 20/32

[xSilverPhinx]

The only one I got wrong was the one about which religious groups traditionally teach that salvation comes through faith alone. I put both Catholics and Protestants.

I guessed one or two, though.

I think that getting a score above 30 means one is overly obsessive about religious mythologies.  

[Sweetdeath]

I thought the bread and wine was a metaphor too! I mean, seriously wtf x_x

[xSilverPhinx]

I thought the bread and wine was a metaphor too! I mean, seriously wtf x_x

I know...who would believe that it actually transforms into flesh and blood...and who would want to eat it?

Some things are just plain weird.

[MinnesotaMike]

Today I learned there's a potential market for AB+ Shiraz.

[Magdalena]

stumbled upon this while looking for related articles.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0105/Are-you-smarter-than-an-atheist-A-religious-quiz/When-does-the-Jewish-Sabbath-begin

only missed 5 questions...if you take it post your scores.

I missed 8  . Not bad compared to the Catholics. 

[Asmodean]

The Asmo didn't take the test. He refuses to be compared to a christian fundie. 

[Tank]

Today I learned there's a potential market for AB+ Shiraz.

[Crow]

I got 32 but I took a wild guess at the awakening question and got it right. I think the questionnaire itself is the reason that atheist, agnostics, Jews and Mormons got more questions correct, many are directed towards the OT and specialized questions that would allow Jewish or Mormons to score higher especially if the results were taken from an American sample.

[Sweetdeath]

The Asmo didn't take the test. He refuses to be compared to a christian fundie. 

Stop being so cool!  XP

[xSilverPhinx]

The Asmo didn't take the test. He refuses to be compared to a christian fundie. 

Stop being so cool!  XP

Right, it makes the rest of us look bad!

[Ali]

I got 32 but I took a wild guess at the awakening question and got it right. I think the questionnaire itself is the reason that atheist, agnostics, Jews and Mormons got more questions correct, many are directed towards the OT and specialized questions that would allow Jewish or Mormons to score higher especially if the results were taken from an American sample.

Really?  I didn't count up the questions, but I got the opposite impression.  I thought that there were more questions about Christianity than any other religion.  And that still doesn't explain why atheists get the best scores - in theory, if we are assuming that people won't know about religions other than their own, wouldn't we do the worst?  I think we just pay better attention. 

[Sandra Craft]

I thought the bread and wine was a metaphor too! I mean, seriously wtf x_x

man takes eucharist hostage

I knew the right answer to that question only because I'd read this article.

[Ali]

That's a lot of angst over a bit of cracker.