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Sometimes dumb sounds cute: Sixty percent of Americans can't name five of the Ten Commandments, and 50% of high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married.
Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University, isn't laughing. Americans' deep ignorance of world religions — their own, their neighbors' or the combatants in Iraq, Darfur or Kashmir — is dangerous, he says.
His new book, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know — and Doesn't, argues that everyone needs to grasp Bible basics, as well as the core beliefs, stories, symbols and heroes of other faiths.
I don't think it's that important to know what is most likely a fantasy tale, though it might provide a bit of entertainment. If independent substantiated facts supported the burning of S & G and the ladies being turned to salt and the story was taught in history class, then not knowing might be more important. I believe their inability to read effectively and to apply mathematical concepts and their apathy toward local, national, and global politics are much more disturbing.
I don't think it's that important to know what is most likely a fantasy tale, though it might provide a bit of entertainment. If independent substantiated facts supported the burning of S & G and the ladies being turned to salt and the story was taught in history class, then not knowing might be more important. I believe their inability to read effectively and to apply mathematical concepts and their apathy toward local, national, and global politics are much more disturbing.
I saw that article days ago or more, took the test for the fun of it, get an "A" and wondered if that is all there is to religion. The questionnaire was so simple, I can't believe the author was taking people seriously.
Try it yourself, and see if you think it is a true test of people's religious knowledge base!
The author is right, course most Americans get confused by Georgia and Georgia, doesn't take much to confuse them, look who we elect to high office in this country, it all ties together, like the idiot country song that says, I don't know the difference between Iraq and Iran.
Sometimes dumb sounds cute: Sixty percent of Americans can't name five of the Ten Commandments, and 50% of high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married.
Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University, isn't laughing. Americans' deep ignorance of world religions — their own, their neighbors' or the combatants in Iraq, Darfur or Kashmir — is dangerous, he says.
His new book, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know — and Doesn't, argues that everyone needs to grasp Bible basics, as well as the core beliefs, stories, symbols and heroes of other faiths.
You can file that under: Why The DaVinici Code was a best-seller.
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