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Mar 14, 2007
Hooray for Jesus! Hooray for Jesus!
Jesus-Loving Americans Totally Ignorant of Jesus, Religion - Wonkette
A nice riff on a few recent surveys and anecdotes about the appalling lack of spritual education on the part of the Religerati. It's nice to see that the 81% of Americans who identify themselves as Christians know bupkus about their religion.
A few highlights:
- The USA is the “only developed nation in the survey where a majority of citizens reported that religion plays a ‘very important’ role in their lives.”
- Only one in three Americans can name the four Gospels, while less than half can even name one of them.
- A majority couldn’t identify the preacher of the “Sermon on the Mount.”
I could go on all day about the irony of this article and the irony of the current political situation that, as far as I can tell, has been created exclusively by and for those with a Christian bent to them. But I won't. The glory of "Christians" not knowing the names of gospels is a rich and deep mine that digs plenty of riches all by itself.
Don't get me wrong. I don't mean to dump on people of faith as one step removed from ignorant cave dwellers worshiping shadows on the cave wall ... um, wait ... well ... yes. Yes! That is exactly what I mean to do. I hate the obligitory "respect" that expressions of faith are afforded in this world, especially in this country, unless of course your faith has anything to do with something outside of the out-stretched, up-raised, stigmatic palms of Jesus Christ, the Savior. But this is a topic for another rant.
BTW, Alberto Gonzalez and Robert Mueller must resign or be fired immediately! There admissions to trampling on rights to privacy and the independent judiciary are certainly the most flagrant of this administration's 6 years of kiss my ass politics.
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