Also I bet a lot of people were thinking of Jon Edwards the psychic.
white liberal Protestant. I got 15/15 and could answer all but one of the full survey without guessing.
Not sure what this proves, though.
White (Politically) Liberal Evangelical Protestant. 32/32 on the full quiz. I wrote a paper on Jonathan Edwards in high school, and I’m a direct descendant of his. Really dull writer, but I guess he had the delivery down or something. 
Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me. Not because religious people are inherently ignorant, but because certain groups of Christians (based on your phrasing, I’m assuming your extended family members are Christian; apologies if I’m incorrect) believe that other faiths are the devil’s work and therefore not worth studying. For instance, why learn about Hinduism or Buddhism anyway, when they’re heathen devil-worshippers anyway? If you meditate (which is what I hear Buddhists do!) it allows demons to enter your body and turn you away from the Lord!
(This is actually the plot of the Christian novel Piercing the Darkness, by Frank Peretti: a town has to fight against little anthropomorphic demons that enter people’s bodies through meditation, which has been introduced to children by their teacher who has been influenced by ~exotic Eastern ways~.)
15/15, Jewish.
Atheist - got the Jewish Sabbath wrong and Pakistani religion wrong (I know, shut up).
14/15 for this Hispanic heretic … missed the question about the Jewish Sabbath.
I did just borrow God is Not Great from the library this past month.
15/15, Christian.
15/15, atheist but I was given extensive [del]brainwashing[/del] teaching as a Mormon growing up.
15/15, 3rd generation atheist.
15/15 and 32/32, Christian. I was expecting it to be harder.
I’m an Australian atheist, and bummed out on a question about the rules regarding the teaching of biblical stuff in US schools…got 14/15. Apart from that one transgression, I’m perfect. 
13/15. I guessed on the Great Awakening question so I’m assuming it’s one of the ones I got wrong (I can’t remember what I guessed).
I put Saturday for the question about the Sabbath but looking that up it seems it starts Friday evening so I’m assuming that’s the other question I got wrong.
Atheist.
Another Australian atheist. 13/15: missed the Sabbath question (chose Saturday) and had no idea about the Great Awakening.
Agnostic, 14/15.
I didn’t know the Great Awakening one (although I knew which one it wasn’t); apart from that one the questions were all ridiculously easy.
15/15 - I’m kinda boggled. Most everything (including The Great Awakening) was covered in High School.
Interesting - either I’d never heard of it before or I’d completely erased all memory of it.
Am I the only one who read the thread title and wondered why it included a raygun noise (pewww…pewpewpew pewwww…)? Yes? Never mind then.
I was wondering wth is The Great Awakening. Turns out to be the kind of thing that I don’t know, not because I’m a Catholic, but because I’m a Spaniard. Same for some of the stuff about Mormons; 99% of what I know about them I learned either from novels, documentaries or the Dope, and that puts me ahead of about 47M Spaniards (population as of the last census, 48M).
Some of the questions seem ambiguous to me. Anything about what’s taught by Protestants needs to start by defining which Protestants you’re talking about.
The “world religions” stuff, I did know.
Neither, it’s the Infinite Mercy that offers it to everybody, what you can do is accept it (or not). Faith is a gift from God, you can’t choose to have it or not any more than you can choose your sexual orientation (so, not a “merit” to have it and not a “demerit” to not have it) and anyway it ends once you see, and you can’t purchase salvation (which would be the “do good and you’ll be saved” POV). The doing good should be a consequence of loving thy neighbor, not of fearing God (paraphrased: “of Faith, Hope and Love, only Love remains beyond death”).
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.
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The poll relies on self-identification. The path of least resistance (in the US, at least) is for an apathetic person who was raised Christian to continue self-identifying with the majority religion even if he doesn’t actually believe in it or know jack all about it.