Results of Religious Knowledge Survey In

Got everything right except for the question about the Great Awakening - I'd never heard of two of the three options, and guessed the wrong one. It's a pretty arbitrary set of questions, though. I'm not sure what all this really tells us.

It tells you nothing of the sort. I would predict that almost every single Hindu got every question about Hinduism right, almost every Muslim got every question about Islam right, almost every Jew got every question about Judaism right, and so on, because there was only one or two of each. This means the majority of all these could well know their own religion inside out, for all you know. There were far more questions on Christianity, so Christians fared less well, but they still, on average, got slightly over half the questions about their own religion right. Mormons and white Evangelicals did better on the Christian questions than did atheists.

To expand on this, it seems that 1% of the survey respondents were Jewish, 1% Muslim, 1% other faith. With the exception of 1% who refused to say, the rest were all Christian or non-religious - mostly Christian. Clearly, this survey really does tell us next to nothing at all about the religious knowledge people of most faiths in the US.