What do YOU know about religion or the Ten Commandments?

Now this is an interesting billboard. It shows the love and compassion exhibited by so many Christians. Hypocrisy is the Christians middle name, thus the fond appellation: Jesus H. Christ.

Among the most hypocritical of all are the representatives who pander to their base while lying about their own “base” needs. The Jesus Jumpers are everywhere. Most of them are harmless, but there are the few, such as the author of this billboard, or the congressman portrayed in the video, that just take the cake. Enjoy:

That Americans don’t know much about their own faith is hardly news. In one widely-seen video clip, comedian Stephen Colbert interviewed Georgia Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, who co-sponsored a bill to require display of the Ten Commandments in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Colbert asked Westmoreland to name the Ten Commandments. According to a March 2007, USA Today survey revealed that 60 percent of Americans can’t name the Ten Commandments. In addition sociologists have long known that religious people are no more honest or trustworthy than the non-religious, and the new poll suggests that atheists and other non-believers are actually better informed about the religious world than the faithful themselves.

So, how do you compare with the average American when it comes to the question of religions? Here’s your chance to find out.

Take the Pew Research Center’s short, 15-question quiz, and see how you do in comparison with 3,412 randomly sampled adults who were asked these and other questions in the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey. This national poll was conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life from May 19 through June 6, 2010, on landlines and cell phones, in English and Spanish.

When you finish the quiz, you will be able to compare your knowledge of religion with participants in the national telephone poll. You can see how you compare with the overall population as well as with people of various religious traditions, people who attend worship services frequently or less often, men and women, and college graduates as well as those who did not attend college.

Your responses on the quiz do NOT affect the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey’s results so have fun and please let us know what you think by leaving a comment.

For a full analysis of the findings of the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey, you can read the full report here.

Many thanks to our friends at Discovery News for their contributions to this article.