Mrs. Ark?

[paulistano]

10% of Americans think Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Roughly 50% of Americans can't name a Gospel in the Bible (e.g. Matthew, Mark, Luke or John).

Source

Comments

[thormonger]

Let's hear it for Bill and Ted!

[justatailor]

The second fact is interesting seeing as how like 80% of Americans are Christian.

[dj_underdog]

And I bet even less know the Ten Commandments.

[kharmii]

I think it's because so many people identify themselves as being Christian because it's their culture, yet they don't regularly go to church. I was like that for so many years until just recently.

[donchep]

See, but even then I find it sad, because regardless of beliefs the Bible is an important document for the sake of cultural literacy in the entire Western World.

[koffie_addict]

Haha, that's so cool

[nanini]

why in the world would Joan be married to Noah?

[nanini]

Oh god. I see it now.

[tiger_tyger]

Yeah. The logic of it kina makes your head hurt dosn't it ^^

[flamesgohigher]

i'd like to see a statistic on how many christians can answer those.

[jle]

I want to see how many Conservative Republican Christians can answer those.

[kharmii]

I'm a Conservative Republican Christian and I graduated in the top ten percent in my class in highschool, then got straight A's in college. The better question would be: How many dorks who spend too much damn time on the internet and never experience the real world could answer those? Oh wait, probably all of them, because ivory-towerish geeks are great at feeling superior to others, yet they probably have no experience with real-life social situations. Intelligence is hardly measured by how much trivial information one can absorb on useless_facts X-P

[leyse]

I think the original comment was less ivory tower ish and more "hey, people should know basic stuff about their religion" ish. This isn't asking people to name all the books of the bible (which, if you think about it, someone who is advocating particular religious beliefs and morals should probably at least know a few of the books they're getting said beliefs and morals from) it's asking people to name one of the four books that contain the central narrative fundamental to their belief system.

I think it's more of a hypocrisy thing than an intelligence thing.