USA Today/Pew Forum - "Catholics don't know shit"

[D1B]

No religion - no problems.

D1B doesn't have a religion, but he's got a sh!t load of problems

Whatever. You're the one abusing your kids with religion.

By the time they're adults, you and your complicit wife will have stolen a third of their childhood with religious bullshit.

What a shame.

[andy7171]

Did UNI lose badly or something this weekend? WTF!?!

[D1B]

Did UNI lose badly or something this weekend? WTF!?!

No, just use your head Andy and get out that fucking cult. Your children are relying on you.

I'm here if you need help. It's easy - just quit going to church and instead, take your family to the park or to a game.

It's a farce, not unlike greek mythology or the assholes who handle rattlesnakes n shit.

[D1B]

Hey, D....did you know that football season started 5 weeks ago?

Give it a rest.

When it's not front page news, I'll give it a rest.

[Cap'n Cat]

Hey, D....did you know that football season started 5 weeks ago?

Give it a rest.

When it's not front page news, I'll give it a rest.

You know, I kinda agree with Z, but, D has a good point.

[JoltinJoe]

Seriously, you think this is what these 32 questions prove? (BTW, I scored 32 out of 32 )

Joe, you aint the average catholic. The church and all its bullshit is Dungeons & Dragons to you. You're a church dork and fetishist.

Hold on, let me get this straight. I'm a church dork and fetishist for knowing all this, but you're a brilliant beacon of bright light for knowing the same things?

[andy7171]

He's not your average non-practicing Catholic.

[D1B]

Joe, you aint the average catholic. The church and all its bullshit is Dungeons & Dragons to you. You're a church dork and fetishist.

Hold on, let me get this straight. I'm a church dork and fetishist for knowing all this, but you're a brilliant beacon of bright light for knowing the same things?

Joe, you're a dork because you know shit like what robe a priest wears on which day.

Joe, dodge all you want. The average catholic, not you, is ignorant about religion, even their's.


Front page news Joe, you can't hide.

You're brilliant, but horribly and sadly misguided.

[JoltinJoe]

You're brilliant.. .

You realize this is the only part of your post I read.

[D1B]

You're brilliant.. .

You realize this is the only part of your post I read.

Hell, so would I Joe. It's true, but your high intelligence is somewhat negated by your lack of courage, honesty and critical thinking skills related to religion and dogma. Which is why, in these debates, you always seek refuge from the bible and catholic dogma (your only source of info about god) in eastern mysticism, theoretical physics, existentiallism and other worthy thought systems. No one is buying it Joe. Either be a catholic or be a freethinker, you can't be both.

Joe, man made religion, including yours - it's time to move on.

Oh, Jesus never existed. He was made up, like Superman or Batman was.

[Cap'n Cat]

Let's all drop the religion shit, huh? It's too much.

[YoUDeeMan]

Let's all drop the religion ****, huh? It's too much.

That's exactly what DB1 is telling them to do.

[D1B]

Let's all drop the religion shit, huh? It's too much.

Not gonna happen. Religion is a root cause of the world's problems and I will be here to expose it as such.

[travelinman67]

Let's all drop the religion shit, huh? It's too much.

Not gonna happen. Religion is a root cause of the world's problems and I will be here to expose it as such.

Edit>Replace

Religion

Environmentalism

[D1B]

Not gonna happen. Religion is a root cause of the world's problems and I will be here to expose it as such.

Edit>Replace

Religion

Environmentalism

Nice try Tbag. You're another christian moron.

[andy7171]

As for the title of this thread, I am a consultant for Baltimore City Department of Public Works - Wastewater Division.

This Catholic knows his shit.

[D1B]

As for the title of this thread, I am a consultant for Baltimore City Department of Public Works - Wastewater Division.

This Catholic knows his shit.

Andy, shut the fuck up with your stupid one-liners - that's Gil Hennie's act. Get out of that fucking church now.

[Cap'n Cat]

As for the title of this thread, I am a consultant for Baltimore City Department of Public Works - Wastewater Division.

This Catholic knows his shit.

[D1B]

From the USA Today article:

"If atheists and agnostics are in heaven over these results, there is weeping and gnashing of teeth among Roman Catholics, who finished in the back of the class on this survey, with only 15 questions right on average...Fewer than half of the Catholics surveyed (42%) were able to name Genesis as the first book in the Bible."



"Gee golly, I tell ya, Revelation is the first book of the bible! I don't care what Father Nelson says."

[JoltinJoe]

It's funny that so much weight is placed by the media on a survey which asks questions like this. Really, before you start insinuating that any one is under-educated, you might want to learn the difference between "best" and "better."

Which of the following best describes the Catholic teaching about the bread and wine used for Communion?

The bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

The bread and wine are symbols of the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

[D1B]

It's funny that so much weight is placed by the media on a survey which asks questions like this. Really, before you start insinuating that any one is under-educated, you might want to learn the difference between "best" and "better."

Which of the following best describes the Catholic teaching about the bread and wine used for Communion?

The bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

The bread and wine are symbols of the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

Yeah, great Joe. We all get it - you're smarter than the Pew Research Foundation.

[D1B]

This survey and previous Pew Forum studies have shown that Jews and atheists/agnostics have high levels of educational attainment on average, which partially explains their performance on the religious knowledge survey. However, even after controlling for levels of education and other key demographic traits (race, age, gender and region), significant differences in religious knowledge persist among adherents of various faith traditions. Atheists/agnostics, Jews and Mormons still have the highest levels of religious knowledge, followed by evangelical Protestants, then those whose religion is nothing in particular, mainline Protestants and Catholics. Atheists/agnostics and Jews stand out for high levels of knowledge about world religions other than Christianity, though they also score at or above the national average on questions about the Bible and Christianity. Holding demographic factors constant, evangelical Protestants outperform most groups (with the exceptions of Mormons and atheists/agnostics) on questions about the Bible and Christianity, but evangelicals fare less well compared with other groups on questions about world religions such as Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism. Mormons are the highest-scoring group on questions about the Bible.

Source - the pew forum study

Joe, you can't hide. Your fellow sheep don't know shit. Most catholics are catholic in name only - they don't go to church and they don't participate. Your churches are empty, seminaries and schools are closing, no one wants to be a priest and your only growth is in hispanic immigrants, africa and the third world.

Hey, guess who scored one of the worst on the survey? Yep, hispanic catholics with about a third of the questions correct - even bigger idiots than white catholics.

[JoltinJoe]

Quite obviously I am. I appreciate that you acknowledge that.

And for those of you who are interested in the answer, neither answer wholly states Catholic thought, but the first option better represents how Catholic thought is more commonly oversimplified by non-Catholics and your friendly neighborhood atheists, and thus is the option the test takers think is the "best" [sic] answer.

In fact the question as asked contains an implicit anti-Catholic bias and it is not really surprising that many Catholics would be confused how to answer it.

[D1B]

Quite obviously I am. I appreciate that you acknowledge that.

And for those of you who are interested in the answer, neither answer wholly states Catholic thought, but the first option better represents how Catholic thought is more commonly oversimplified by non-Catholics and your friendly neighborhood atheists, and thus is the option the test takers think is the "best" [sic] answer.

In fact the question as asked contains an implicit anti-Catholic bias and it is not really surprising that many Catholics would be confused how to answer it.

Nice backpeddle, Liar/crybaby/apologist Joe.

Hey, you got the question right, remember?

You cannibals eat the flesh and drink the blood of your man god zombie every Sunday - fact.

Nice smokescreen.

[JoltinJoe]

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You cannibals eat the flesh and drink the blood of your man god zombie every Sunday - fact.

Thank you for so succinctly pointing out the anti-Catholic bigotry which is implicit is this oversimplified statement of Catholic belief. You've made my point.