Now of course I’m remembering Jon Stewart jokes that should have given me the required upsight.
I got a perfect score, though I had to guess on the “Great Awakening” question.
Are the survey results adjusted for educational level?
Yes. They run multivariate regression analyses accounting for: religious affiliation, religious commitment, education level, race, gender, age and geographic region.
I only got the Great Awakening one wrong; I probably learned about it at some point but don’t recall. I think I picked Finney. I thought the other questions were pretty easy, though.
I only know the Great Awakening question because Dopers keep mixing up John Edwards, Jon Edward, and Jon Edwards.
I got all the questions right too, but I take issue with a few of them. First of all, the Constitution says nothing about a “separation of church and state”. That’s just a catchphrase- a nickname- for the legal principle derived from several sources. The Constitution merely says “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.” It’s the Jefferson Letters that first use the “wall of separation” verbiage.
Secondly, the salvation by faith/works question varies from church to church. Reconciliation is a work, but it requires faith. Penance, also, is a work. So what do Catholics believe? By doctrine, I’d say it’s faith, not works. Different Protestant churches will teach different things, but they “mainly” preach faith as well. It’s Islam that’s big on the salvation-by-works thing, which becomes obvious when you consider that they don’t have a sacrificial-lamb character to redeem them. So I don’t know if “both” is the right answer, but I’m giving myself credit.
Finally, if on the “do you happen to know the Islam holy book’s name?” question, you answered “The Koran”, you’re wrong. If you said “Quran”…you’re also wrong. The only acceptable answers to “Do you happen to know…” are “yes” and “no”. But that’s just me being a prick ;).
The Separation of Church and State is in the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. It doesn’t use that exact phrase (that comes from another statement by Thomas Jefferson), but the principle is definitely in there.
Sola Fide is not a Catholic doctrine. That’s factually incorrect. That’s not to say grace and faith are not crucial, but they’re not sufficient.
Judaism also believes in works over faith (faith is almost a non-issue in Judaism). In fact, most religions do. Protestant Christianity is fairly unique in the doctrine that belief alone is all that matters.
Some synagogues also do Friday night services.
15/15. Very easy.
Hispanic Roman Catholic.
14/15. I missed the First Great Awakening question. I knew it took place much too long ago for Billy Graham to be involved, but got the wrong side of the 50/50 left over. Oh well.
I’m an atheist.
I’m a Catholic, and I got all 32. 31 of them were VERY easy.
I had to take one guess, because I was inclined to think that BOTH Hinduism and Buddhism had a concept of Nirvana. But the definition given (a state above and beyond all pain and suffering) sounded more Buddhist.
As others have noted, the phrase “Separation of Church and State” is not to be found anywhere in the Constitution, but it was pretty obvious that was the answer expected.
On the whole, much too easy. In parts, a bit inaccurate.
Very common when I was a kid. Saturday mornings were reserved for bar mitzvahs. Everyone could come of course. Friday evening services always had food afterward.
There are four possible cases:
- People who actually think seriously about their religion and follow it out of conviction.
- People who don’t think seriously about their religion and follow it out of inertia.
- People who actually think seriously about their atheism and reject religion out of conviction.
- People who don’t think seriously about their atheism and reject religion out of inertia.
Given the cultural pressures against atheism, category 4 is, to all intents and purposes, empty. The obvious result is that the mix of categories 1 & 2 averages out to a lower degree of religious education than category 3.
Bah. Keeps timing out. In one case, the link took me to a page that made me wonder if the site is currently being hacked.
Several attempts - furthest I got was question 8. They seem pretty easy, but I can’t get far enough to see my score.
Except for the misguided population of Chick tracts. 
I suspect that members of minority religions have a slight advantage in quizzes like these, since they are more likely to have been exposed to their own religion and to the majority religion.
It would be interesting to see a comparison of what people know about specific religions. For instance, a “How much do you know about Christianity [or Islam, or Buddhism, etc,]?” quiz, with scores broken down into Christians vs. non-Christians (or Christians vs. members of other religions vs. the non-religious).
Yeah, but I don’t think category 4 is as empty as you claim, at least outside the Bible Belt. If religion calls on you to actually do something, the way of inertia is not to do it.
On the other hand, the number of things that “case 4” atheism calls on you to actually do is zero, so it’s hard to tell whether those atheists are not doing those non things out of inertia or fanaticism.
I noticed this too. I agree with you, the test was ridiculously easy. I also scored 15/15, and I’m not even an athiest!
I think the way of inertia is for religious believers simply to blow off whatever they want to blow off, not for them to become atheists. It’s a complete canard that any significant number of people become atheists because they don’t want to follow the moral dicates of religion. Religion is filled with ostensible believers who never bother to actually do anything about it. I think it’s ridiculous to suggest that there’s any mental process which involves people saying, “I don’t wish to abstain from pre-marital sex, therefore I will choose to no longer believe in God.” That’s absurd. Belief or non-belief is not a matter of volition.
Another atheist or something reporting a 15/15. I thought most of these were ninth grade Social Studies level questions. I wonder if I would have gotten the Great Awakening question right if it weren’t for Curtis LeMay. 
Funny you should say that Marley, because the reason I always remember Jon Edwards is because my ninth grade English teacher (public school) made us read “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”