Atheist, until recently a Mormon, and I scored 14/15. Stoopidly missed the nirvana question.
14/15, mostly because nobody over here ever has even heard about the “First Great Awakening”. And I know who Joseph Smith was, even so.
I think I read that, too. Maybe in 11th grade. But that was a while ago and we’ve heard from Curtis LeMay more recently.
Missed the last on about the First Great Awakening. So, of course, I had to read the wiki. Interesting.
Oh, and atheist.
Atheist here. I got 15/15, but had to take an educated guess at the Great Awakening.
Christian (white liberal Protestant), 15/15, found it really easy.
I’m not too surprised at this, evangelicals sometimes feel its their duty to “study up” to convert people, so in order to get into a battle of wits with an atheist (no jokes, please) they learn up on religion.
This. Well, I actually got 14/15, but the rest is me. (Don’t know how to further clarify “Christian” though, other than Protestant. I’ve attended an evangelical church for 30 years, but don’t consider myself an “evangelical”, at least not as how it’s usually defined.)
Again, this (for the question I missed). Haven’t even heard about the Great Awakening before, but I don’t follow Curtis’ postings much. Who would have thought there was a benefit to actually reading Curtis’ posts?
Deceptively “easy” for some of us. To expand on what Diogenes mentions, the easy way for a lot of people is to just claim the religion they’re used to/were brought up in/does it for them emotionally, while in fact practicing just whatever part of it they’re comfortable with in the way they live, and not going very deep into what/why.
Hispanic Heretic ( 
raised Catholic). 31/32 on the full version, 14/15 in the site; the Great Awakening one tripped me.
I honestly can’t believe how poorly most people scored, especially on the “According to rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, is a public school teacher permitted to read from the Bible as an example of literature, or not?” question. Only 23% knew that you could study the Bible as literature. That’s pretty lame.
And only 93% of Mormons knew Joseph Smith was Mormon? Seriously?
I have the feeling that lots of people don’t actually think about their answers to survey questions and just answer randomly. Or maybe their ability to understand English is incredibly poor, but they don’t want to be rude to the surveyor, so they just smile and fill in the blanks at random.
This was fun, not one of my extended holier than thou family on Facebook got better than 50%. I (who am bound for hell according to them) got 100%.
Agnostic who scored 15/15.
Mark me down as another who was reminded about the Great Awakening by Curtis LeMay.
Atheist, 13/15. Missed Jonathan Edwards, and guessed wrong on the one about communion (coulda sworn it was Eastern Orthodox).
Or, they’ve been systematically lied to. Your example of teachers being allowed to read the Bible; that goes against what Christians are typically taught about Christianity being “persecuted” in schools. Like the Christian students who hold prayer meetings around the flagpole under the impression they are defying the Evil Secular Education establishment and never realize that there isn’t any rule against prayer in schools.
These people don’t realize that the reason that teachers don’t teach about the Bible isn’t because Christianity is being suppressed, but because if they did they’d have to teach about other religions too; and that is what would really freak out the Christians. So the subject gets avoided.
14 out 15, me = non literal Christian
Agnostic, got all the answers correct.
All correct, short and long form. Agnostic.
14 out of 15. I got the one the Sabbath wrong – I thought it started at midnight on Saturday. Other than that, easy-peesy. (How could you NOT know that Mother Teresa was Catholic. Yeesh.)
15/15. Jonathan Edwards sneers at you sinners.
Billy Graham probably got a lot of votes because he was the only one of the three people had heard of.
hard-core atheist, perfect score. The Edwards one was the easiest, as I had read (and parodied) Edwards in studying his place in American Literature. His most famous sermon in the Great Awakening was a scary, eloquent description of what was in store for those who had misbehaved, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” which I turned into “God in the Hands of Angry Sinners.” Good times, good times.