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59%: "Congratulations! You know a lot about the Bible - the books, the characters, the events. You are able to remember a lot of what you have heard and read!"

That would seem to be the case, as I have read or heard very little.

I am slightly more than half as holy as the Buckethead.

Wow... 87%, and I'm literally a Godless heathen. I guess I listened well in Methodist Sunday school.

That test was pretty easy. I got 100% too. There were only a couple that I wasn't sure of (like how many books are in the NT).

It's funny the things you absorb. I mean, I relatively glibly call myself a Godless heathen, but in a far more meaningful sense (quite apart from questions of faith) my education - all our educations - were steeped in Biblical allegory, metaphor, and literal story. There's no reason at all that I should know that Methuselah lived to 969, based on reading the Bible, but that name's everywhere if you care to look. Same with the epistles, or the Psalms, or whatever. Song of songs? Of course! The scary prophesizing of Elijah? Heck, yes! That badass moment where God tells Abraham, "naw, naw man, I was just fucking with you, man"? Oh, baby!

Know a little history, know a little classics, and you are connecting with a vibrant and robust tradition that resonates whether or not you personally accept Jesus as your personal savior or whatnot.

God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"
God says, "Out on Highway 61."

Let me say that I have read the entire Bible. Yes, even those stupid, endless begats. I have also been on several state and national championship Bible quiz teams. I got free trips to Atlanta and Orlando (including Disney World) and I rode in the Goodyear Blimp(TM) because I could beat everyone else to the buzzer to answer 3-part questions and quote endless, memorized verses from whatever book we were studying.

I got an 88%. I was raised Methodist (Bible, I thought we were here to talk about what happened at the social last night...) and converted to Pentecostal who didn't much care who wrote the book ('cause God wrote 'em all, right?) or what the history was about ('cause it's all about them, right?) as long as you could quote the verse that shows how they're right and the others are wrong. Perhaps in repressing my memories I have repressed all the Bible stuff that was drilled into me.

I'd like to point out that the quotations didn't trip me up at all. I could've kept going for hours. Just don't ask me who wrote it:-)

I roll with the RC mob, and I got 98% somehow, perhaps by divinely inspired guesswork.

Johno,
It is for precisely that reason that a certain history professor included several portions of The Iliad be read in his History 110 course.

He explained to 100-odd bleary eyed manchildren that an introduction into this and similar works was an introduction to our entire civilization.

He explained it well though, and really caught their attention.