Religious Knowledge Survey

[Iason Ouabache]

I really surprised that only 11% of people got the last question right. I had to read Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God in high school English class (public school, btw). That guy was fucking intense!

I have no idea who this guy is, or what that book is.  He apparently has negative recognition though, since you'd expect one person in three to get it right by guessing.

People probably confused him with former senator John Edwards or John Edward, the Biggest Douche in the Universe. It's a shame too since Jonathan Edwards played a big role in pre-Revolutionary War America. He was the biggest Puritan leader and helped start the First Great Awakening. Also, huge raging Calvinist dick.

[BadBeast]

I really surprised that only 11% of people got the last question right. I had to read Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God in high school English class (public school, btw). That guy was fucking intense!

I have no idea who this guy is, or what that book is.  He apparently has negative recognition though, since you'd expect one person in three to get it right by guessing.

People probably confused him with former senator John Edwards or John Edward, the Biggest Douche in the Universe. It's a shame too since Jonathan Edwards played a big role in pre-Revolutionary War America. He was the biggest Puritan leader and helped start the First Great Awakening. Also, huge raging Calvinist dick.

A proper Frothy one then?

[BadBeast]

Probably just as well he shipped out to America then, or he may have ended up on a Bonfire!

[Stelpa]

12 out of 15... Durn, I thought I would do better :\

[Lies]

12/15, the ones I didn't score well on were knowing the jewish sabbath (I thought it was muslims who had theirs on fridays, I answered saturday) and the one with martin luther king and that johnathan edwards guy, which I mostly missed because my understanding of those american things are quite limited, so I'm pretty happy with my score.

[Golden Applesauce]

I got 13 BUT the irony is I only got the Communion question right because I read about people getting it wrong in the test, in an article.

I can understand how even the Catholics were confused by that question.  Having gone to CCD (Catholic Sunday School) and three different Catholic private schools, the best understanding of the doctrine I have is the bread and wine literally turn into the body and blood of Christ, not symbolically, but that the "body and blood of Christ" is itself symbolic for the Church as a community.  Nobody teaches that the bread turns into meat or the wine into serum/platelets/blood cells.  I think it's one of the cases where the Vatican can't take back the idea of literal transubstantiation, so they redefined the word "literal" instead.

[Placid Dingo]

12/15, the ones I didn't score well on were knowing the jewish sabbath (I thought it was muslims who had theirs on fridays, I answered saturday) and the one with martin luther king and that johnathan edwards guy, which I mostly missed because my understanding of those american things are quite limited, so I'm pretty happy with my score.

Me too!

Were you too deceived by The Big Lebowski?

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

12/15, the ones I didn't score well on were knowing the jewish sabbath (I thought it was muslims who had theirs on fridays, I answered saturday) and the one with martin luther king and that johnathan edwards guy, which I mostly missed because my understanding of those american things are quite limited, so I'm pretty happy with my score.

The Sabbath one is a trick question. The Jewish day begins at Sunset, so technically its their Saturday while its still our Friday Night.

[Golden Applesauce]

12/15, the ones I didn't score well on were knowing the jewish sabbath (I thought it was muslims who had theirs on fridays, I answered saturday) and the one with martin luther king and that johnathan edwards guy, which I mostly missed because my understanding of those american things are quite limited, so I'm pretty happy with my score.

The Sabbath one is a trick question. The Jewish day begins at Sunset, so technically its their Saturday while its still our Friday Night.

The Sabbath starts on Saturday, but Saturday starts on Friday.

[Telarus]

12/15, the ones I didn't score well on were knowing the jewish sabbath (I thought it was muslims who had theirs on fridays, I answered saturday) and the one with martin luther king and that johnathan edwards guy, which I mostly missed because my understanding of those american things are quite limited, so I'm pretty happy with my score.

The Sabbath one is a trick question. The Jewish day begins at Sunset, so technically its their Saturday while its still our Friday Night.

The Sabbath starts on Saturday, but Saturday starts on Friday.

Yes, exactly. Which is why the whole Hot Dog on a Friday thing is in the PD. Incidentally, I got through about half of that quiz from remembering where in the PD it got made fun of, then free-associating to the answer.

[Brotep]

100%.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is pretty vivid. As for the god portrayed therein, kind of a dick.