Defensive Knowledge

by digby

John King featured an interesting factoid about religion on his show tonight. Out of 32 questions about various religions posed by a recent Pew Poll , it was the Atheists/Agnostics who got the most right, followed by the Jews and the Mormons.

I’m guessing that when you’re in a minority you probably feel it’s more important to know what the majority believes. But I still think it’s interesting that atheists, the most despised religious minority in the nation by far, including Muslims, know more about religion than anyone else.