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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jul 24, 2019 2:49:57 GMT
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Post by clusium on Jul 24, 2019 3:41:54 GMT
Thanks for sharing, Cooljgs. I got 15/15.  |
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Post by Karl Aksel on Jul 25, 2019 7:44:51 GMT
What I don't get is why each question had a "not sure" option. If a person honestly picked "not sure", surely the answer would be correct?
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Jul 25, 2019 11:17:50 GMT
Also surprising is how only 50% of Catholics understand their own religion’s belief that consecrated communion wafers are literally the body of Christ. Almost everyone else thought it was a metaphor… which would make a lot more sense, but it’s not what the religion teaches.
I would think most Catholics would know this, but have at least rejected that ludicrous teaching.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jul 25, 2019 11:43:16 GMT
What I don't get is why each question had a "not sure" option. If a person honestly picked "not sure", surely the answer would be correct? I think they were assuming honesty so I like that option being there.since it was basically data collecting what people knew about religion and it matches up with what the people were saying in original questionaire.
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Post by Karl Aksel on Jul 25, 2019 13:10:16 GMT
What I don't get is why each question had a "not sure" option. If a person honestly picked "not sure", surely the answer would be correct? I think they were assuming honesty so I like that option being there.since it was basically data collecting what people knew about religion and it matches up with what the people were saying in original questionaire. Well, that does make sense.
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Post by thefleetsin on Jul 25, 2019 14:05:53 GMT
while you were passed out
while you were
busy
being passed out:
the very same knife sharpening wagon
came about
the one your grandmother would hail
to sharpen her
self-righteous nails
till they made screeching sounds
like chalk boards on a titanic
going down
seconds before
you figured out
who picasso truly was,
why dead gods require extra spoonfuls of buzz,
and diversified money market accounts
have always been
the foreplay
to being swept off your feet
by
belief systems loosely based on love.
sjw 07/25/19 inspired at this very moment in time by well duh.
from the 'blasphemy series' of poems
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Post by general313 on Jul 25, 2019 15:01:40 GMT
13/15
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Post by progressiveelement on Jul 25, 2019 15:45:29 GMT
I wouldn't expect a Christian to know about Hare Krishna more than me.
Nor point and laugh at them less than me.
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Jul 25, 2019 16:21:48 GMT
I got 15 out of 15.
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Jul 25, 2019 16:23:03 GMT
I wouldn't expect a Christian to know about Hare Krishna more than me.
Nor point and laugh at them less than me.
I just did the test and these are fairly basic questions.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Jul 25, 2019 19:57:22 GMT
Only 9% of people got a score higher than 75% — which doesn’t sound all that impressive — but Jews, atheists, and agnostics fared better than Christians overall. Fortunately I'm one of the 9%, One assumes this is ironic since you say: when The somewhat resentful tone of this comment probably tells the reader more about you than others . But if the quiz is so easy then why did the theophiliacs so often do so badly?
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Post by phludowin on Jul 25, 2019 20:57:29 GMT
15/15.
The questions were fairly basic; I'm surprised that so few people got high scores.
But then I'm European.
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Post by mslo79 on Jul 26, 2019 11:22:58 GMT
Also surprising is how only 50% of Catholics understand their own religion’s belief that consecrated communion wafers are literally the body of Christ. Almost everyone else thought it was a metaphor… which would make a lot more sense, but it’s not what the religion teaches.I would think most Catholics would know this, but have at least rejected that ludicrous teaching.
Except that teaching is the truth (it's Christ physically present in the Eucharist, it's not symbolic). but since you don't even believe in God, it's just going to be that much more difficult for a non-believer to believe.
but for those who doubt it's real search for 'Eucharistic Miracles' online for further evidence of this truth. sure, you won't see miracles like that much from a priest consecrating the Eucharist at Mass, but it does not matter, as the Eucharist is still the Eucharist, as it does not matter if a average priest does it or the Pope, it's exactly the same. the truth remains like it says in CCC #1374...
source = www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm ; straight from Vatican's website. basically it's from The Catechism of the Catholic church which is official church teaching. in #1376 etc it talks about 'transubstantiation' which is the process that occurs when ordinary wafers transform into Christ basically.
p.s. if one still denies that the Eucharist is what it shows above, especially after looking up 'Eucharistic Miracles' online above (which defy nature/science), I think it can be summed up by my usual St. Thomas Aquinas quote... "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." ; because for some, no matter what evidence they see etc, they will simply refuse to believe. maybe some don't want to because then they would have to change the way they live etc.
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Post by amyghost on Jul 26, 2019 12:33:55 GMT
Also surprising is how only 50% of Catholics understand their own religion’s belief that consecrated communion wafers are literally the body of Christ. Almost everyone else thought it was a metaphor… which would make a lot more sense, but it’s not what the religion teaches.I would think most Catholics would know this, but have at least rejected that ludicrous teaching.
Except that teaching is the truth (it's Christ physically present in the Eucharist, it's not symbolic). but since you don't even believe in God, it's just going to be that much more difficult for a non-believer to believe.
but for those who doubt it's real search for 'Eucharistic Miracles' online for further evidence of this truth. sure, you won't see miracles like that much from a priest consecrating the Eucharist at Mass, but it does not matter, as the Eucharist is still the Eucharist, as it does not matter if a average priest does it or the Pope, it's exactly the same. the truth remains like it says in CCC #1374...
source = www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm ; straight from Vatican's website. basically it's from The Catechism of the Catholic church which is official church teaching. in #1376 etc it talks about 'transubstantiation' which is the process that occurs when ordinary wafers transform into Christ basically.
p.s. if one still denies that the Eucharist is what it shows above, especially after looking up 'Eucharistic Miracles' online above (which defy nature/science), I think it can be summed up by my usual St. Thomas Aquinas quote... "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." ; because for some, no matter what evidence they see etc, they will simply refuse to believe. maybe some don't want to because then they would have to change the way they live etc.
I figured that any response from mslo79 on this topic was going to cause me to laugh out loud and, per usual, mslo delivered. You might want to be a little more parsimonious with that Aquinas quote, hon. You've been wearing it to rags on this site recently, and once more: it's no explanation of anything to anyone, faithful or otherwise. It's simply nattering to the choir, and nonsense to the rationally-minded. 'Truth' indeed. Your sort wouldn't be able to discern truth if it bit you in the tuchus and gave you rabies. Nor would you want truth, if it threatened your fairy tales in any meaningful manner.
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Post by OpiateOfTheMasses on Jul 27, 2019 8:59:52 GMT
I got 15. Personally I thought they were pretty easy questions.
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Post by clusium on Jul 27, 2019 15:09:32 GMT
I got 15. Personally I thought they were pretty easy questions. I thought they were all pretty easy questions too.
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Post by Karl Aksel on Jul 27, 2019 17:28:36 GMT
I got 15. Personally I thought they were pretty easy questions. I thought they were all pretty easy questions too. That's what I feel - if you couldn't get 15/15 on that score, you simply don't care about religion one way or the other. Which would make it more likely that you'd be a member of the same religion as your family.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jul 27, 2019 17:37:14 GMT
I thought they were all pretty easy questions too. That's what I feel - if you couldn't get 15/15 on that score, you simply don't care about religion one way or the other. Which would make it more likely that you'd be a member of the same religion as your family. There's never been a reason to care about all religions.
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Post by Arlon10 on Jul 27, 2019 17:41:23 GMT
There are some intelligent atheists. However that quiz only asks questions that have little to do with any religious mystery, except the one about Catholic Eucharist. The rest of the questions have extraordinarily mundane answers. The one about the Trinity only lists the main characters in most discussions and belies the variety of interpretations and number of controversies surrounding the Trinity.
Many atheists are good enough at knowing things that are not controversial. Quandaries and conundrums are not their forte.
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