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October 03, 2010

Times-Picayune: Most Americans flunk basic religion

by Bruce Nolan
The Times-Picayune

Americans may be a famously religious people, deeply philanthropic and gathering at regular weekly worship in huge numbers — but they are remarkably ignorant about the sources and actual teachings of various religions, often including their own.

That’s what researchers from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found when they sampled what Americans actually know about religion.

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