{"id":2712,"date":"2013-04-30T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2013-05-31T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:44:58","slug":"dumbed-down-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/dumbed-down-catholicism\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbed Down Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/28\/us\/28religion.html?_r=1\">there were some statistics released<\/a> following a large survey asking 3,400 Americans basic questions about Christianity and world religions. Catholics didn&#8217;t perform well. How well would you have done?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.osvdailytake.com\/2010\/09\/take-religion-quiz.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16044\" alt=\"Pew Report\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Pew-Report-1024x855.png\" width=\"502\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Pew-Report-1024x855.png 1024w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Pew-Report-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Pew-Report.png 1162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Why do you think Catholics performed so badly and, more importantly, how do you think we can reverse this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adw.org\/2011\/02\/on-the-problem-of-arrested-spiritual-development\/\">arrested development<\/a>?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago there were some statistics released following a large survey asking 3,400 Americans basic questions about Christianity and world religions. Catholics didn&#8217;t perform well. How well would you have done? Why do you think Catholics performed so badly and, more importantly, how do you think we can reverse this arrested development?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1853,547,1294,1852,2195],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-dumbed-down","tag-knowledge","tag-pew","tag-quiz","tag-the-book"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19138,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/19138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}