According to a recent pew survey. You can take a condensed version of the test here to see how you do or you can just read the full report here.
It's one of the more unsettling things about religion, the fact that its adherents sometimes don't know much about it and yet have complete faith in it. Many of my friends will tell me that they believe in every word of the Bible, yet upon close questioning I learn that they haven't actually read it. How on earth do you do that? I can't even fathom how it's possible.
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I got one wrong and it'll be the last time I ever vote for Billy Graham!
It seems fairly natural for religious types to ignore the other faiths around them at best. At worst, there is expressed hatred and threatened destruction to those other faith groups.  Aren't those sort of rules necessary for a successful church?
Also, on a personal note, I'm (perhaps too) deeply interested in the paradox that religion presents to society. I don't think I could have become as involved with my own beliefs had it not been for studying the faiths. I didn't think other agnostics and atheists would know about the variety of other faiths though.
The Bible, like the Quran, is not readily accessible for mass-consumption as-is. It isn't surprising to find most Christians would not have read the bible from cover to cover. Were it not for the religions' focus on absolute inerrancy from these books, I believe they'd have been more radically revised, cut, re-constituted, edited, embellished and polished to present something far more accessible and applicable to the potential faithful. Thank science they haven't!
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