Un nou studiu PEW reflectă legătura
intimă între ignoranţă şi credinţă. Rezultatul
nu-mi apare deloc surprinzător, deşi cu siguranţă pentru
majoritatea absolută a românilor, în special cei aflaţi în
ţară, lucrul ăsta e o noutate. Românii, după ce s-au luptat
vreo zece ani ca să se prindă că socialismul est-european e mort
definitiv, au picat acum ca fraierii în mrejele găştii de profitori
din Biserica ortodoxă ca şi ale agresivului misionarism protestant
(ăştia sunt ridiculii sectanţi care schimbă o fabulă
cu alta).
Ce aflăm din acest ultim studiu
confirmă ceea ce alte sondaje au revelat deja, anume legătura între
credinţa în Dumnezeu şi lipsa de educaţie, ca şi ceea ce
Prothero observa şi el în lucrarea lui din care citam copios acum ceva
timp în textul "Iudaismul -
Jurnal Intim".
Iată cum reflectă presa anglosaxonă
rezultatele studiului :
Şi comentariile lui Prothero la aceste
rezultate de pe blogul CNN-ului:
Şi ca
amuzament, iată şi modul cum reflectă presa francofonă din
America de nord (canadiană) ştirea:
"Autre surprise: ce ne sont ni les
évangélistes, ni les catholiques qui ont obtenu les meilleurs résultats mais
les athées et les agnostiques. En fait, le degré de connaissance de la religion
serait surtout lié au niveau d'instruction en général."
Adresa la care e publicat detaliat textul
conţinând rezultatele, comentariile şi metodologia se află pe
site-ul PEW; mai jos, legăturile principale însoţite cu citate
semnificative (din punctul meu de vedere) de pe fiecare pagină:
http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx
"Overall, people who score
well on the general knowledge questions also tend to do well on the religion
questions. Atheists/agnostics and Jews correctly answer an average of roughly
seven of the nine general knowledge questions. Among the public overall, the
average respondent correctly answers 5.2 of these general knowledge questions."
http://pewforum.org/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey-Who-Knows-What-About-Religion.aspx
"Overall, the three groups that perform best
in this survey are atheists and agnostics (who get an average of 20.9 out of 32
questions right), Jews (20.5 questions right on average) and Mormons (20.3
questions right). Looked at another way, 27% of Jews, 22% of atheists and
agnostics, and 20% of Mormons score in the top 10% of all respondents in
overall number of correct answers to religious knowledge questions, getting at
least 26 questions right. As will be discussed in detail later in this report,
these groups display greater religious knowledge even when education and other
factors are held constant. Mormons outperform Jews as well as atheists and
agnostics on questions about the Bible but do not perform as well as the other
two groups on questions having to do with world religions such as Islam,
Hinduism and Buddhism."
http://pewforum.org/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey-Factors-Linked-With-Religious-Knowledge.aspx
"Beliefs about God and the
Bible are also associated with religious knowledge. People who say they do not
believe in God or a universal spirit perform relatively well on the survey,
getting an average of 18.7 questions right. By comparison, those who believe in
God get significantly fewer questions right (those who say they believe in God
with absolute certainty get an average of 16 questions right, while those who
say they believe in God but are not absolutely certain about God’s existence
get 15.3 right). This is consistent with the survey’s finding that people who
describe themselves (in response to a separate question) as atheists and
agnostics score better overall than people affiliated with many religious
faiths."
http://pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Belief_and_Practices/religious-knowledge-topline.pdf