Cantr II Discussion Forum

29/32, American Catholic. I'm surprised they put "I don't know" as an option. Poor test taking skills if you choose this istead of taking an educated guess.

They should rename the article, are you smarter than a Cantr Player because our scores are up there

Only a 26/32 here. But the former AG Protestant is just glad that I'm smarter(better ) than the average atheist...

Despite my low test score, I also lean towards the Unitarian Universalist line of belief, which means I probably should know more about the religions that aren't Christianity (most of the questions I missed were Catholic or Jewish questions). But I only recently, within the last year or two, have changed my beliefs to the point where they could be described as UU. Basically, if anyone's ever read Neal Donald Walsch's Conversations with God, that's pretty damn close to what I believe. And to most of the people around me, that means I'm either 'New Age' or crazy, but, hey, I can wake up and go to sleep without feeling guilty about what I believe, so you'd think they'd be happy for me. *sigh* I really need to go check out that UU church soon.

I'm a Protestant Chrsitian and I got a 31/32 on this one. I missed the first one about the Jewish Sabbath, picking Saturday instead of Friday. I agree with whoever said this is more of a test on general knowledge, that's how it felt to me. It didn't get deep or anything into religion, just very basic knowledge. The numbers of a survey are usually useless in my opinion. The samples are often too small to really represent the people they are intended to represent. They may have gotten those numbers in that one survey, but if they had held a second survey with a completely different sample it could have went the opposite way. Unless you can study everyone in a group, to make any claims as to their collective knowledge is jumping to conclusions.

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30/32 - wrong answers: Job and Jonathan Edwards
I agree with Mr Bones. It's a general knowledge test.
Agnostic married to a humanist. (It was a team effort!)

Estaar wrote:I agree with Mr Bones. It's a general knowledge test.

As my previous comment originally queried more verbosely:

What is the alternative?

I'm genuinely curious; what would you test on in regard to religion other than trivia (or at best, trivia + general reading/listening comprehension) ?

Also, if you did question something "deeper" than the basics, would you expect the results to change significantly? Do we think there are groups of believers out there that posses some sort of grasp of more obscure details but somehow are stymied by the basics? Unless, of course, if you suddenly shifted the focus just to one particular religion...

28/32.

I'm an atheist but baptised Anglican, although I wasn't brought up in a religious family. My maternal family are Anglican and my paternal family are practicing Catholics (although my grandmother converted from Anglicanism).

27/32, pretty sad. I took a world religions class in high school, but some of those were pretty hard.

I made an 81% on this, but I would have surpassed their average of 84% if I'd actually paid closer attention to a couple of the questions. So, I guess I know as much as the next person, but I'm still not sure if that's good or not.

Raspberrytango wrote: So, I guess I know as much as the next person, but I'm still not sure if that's good or not.

The average for Americans was 50%, so we all did relatively good.

You answered 31 of 32 questions correctly for a total score of 97%.

I have a very interesting and varied religious background, which probably helped me with this test quite a lot. I was born and raised Catholic until I was 9, became a Bah'ai in my young teenage years (which helped me with the few Islam questions), then my family and I converted to Mormonism when I was 12. I spent the rest of teenage years and young adult life as Mormon (which helped me with the Mormon questions), but now consider myself a spiritual agnostic. (One that believes the existence of a higher power, but does not seek to define said higher power.) My father is now Jewish, my mother and wife are active Mormons. The only question I missed with one of the Jewish ones though, admittedly, I think I made a few correct guesses as well.

You answered 25 of 32 questions correctly for a total score of 78%

As atheist.