A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found atheists and agnostics outperform many theists when it comes to general of knowledge of the big religions in existence today. Those identifying as Jewish or Mormon also landed at the top in the survey. Example questions include “the Koran is the Islamic Holy book” and “Joseph Smith was a Mormon”. The survey results have appeared in many news outlets, for example, read about it here in the New York Times.
Posted on Tuesday, September 28th, 2010.