This comes as no shock to me. Atheists and Agnostics score the highest on the study's questions about religion.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/dont-know-much-about-religion-youre-not-alone-study-finds/
You can take the quiz yourself. I got 9 of 10 right. I didn't know that the Jewish Sabbath begins on Friday (at sundown; actually I had been taught that, but I did not recall it).
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/dont-know-much-about-religion-youre-not-alone-study-finds/
Odds are that you know Mother Teresa was Catholic, but what religion is the Dalai Lama?
How about Maimonides?
And - no Googling - what's the first book of the Bible? How about the first four books of the New Testament?
Americans who can answer all of those questions are relatively rare, a huge new study has found.
In fact, although the United States is one of the most religious developed countries in the world, most Americans scored 50 percent or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion in public life.
The survey is full of surprising findings.
For example, it's not evangelicals or Catholics who did best - it's atheists and agnostics.
You can take the quiz yourself. I got 9 of 10 right. I didn't know that the Jewish Sabbath begins on Friday (at sundown; actually I had been taught that, but I did not recall it).