Re: Как говорить о религии без того чтобы оскорблять религиозные чувства представите
:34:Originally Posted by Nabludatel'
Религия - удивительная тема. В Америке подавляющее большиство причисляют себя к какой-либо религии. При этом последователи самых популярных религий чаще всего не хотят ничего знать о других религиях. То ли неинтересно, то ли считают это грехом.
По результатам недавних опросов, атеисты и агностики более осведомлены о различных религиях, чем религиозные люди.
How ignorant are religious Americans? More ignorant than atheists and agnostics who proved most knowledgeable about religion; members of minorities faiths, namely Mormons and Jews, scored about as high, not surprisingly. Religious majorities whose views shape the cultural and political climate in which everyone resides have relatively little incentive or need to know about relatively powerless faiths. But shouldn't they be well versed in the teachings of their own faiths? While some areas of ignorance uncovered by Pew were predictable -- only 27% of survey respondents knew that most Indonesians are Muslim - other findings were startling: Nearly half of all Catholics surveyed (45%) did not know that "the bread and wine used in Communion do not merely symbolize but actually become the body and blood of Christ." (I'm a secular agnostic with no connection to Catholicism, and even I know that.)
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