68% read the Bible?

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I was speaking to someone this week who was raised as a Roman Catholic
and did not know what 1 Maccabees was. He has been a born-again
Protestant for 14 years , but still struggled to place the word
'Apocalypse', until I pointed out that it was another word for
Revelation.

How many Christians can say the Ten Commandments? I once made the
mistake of saying that I could not remember them all and my opponent
boasted that he could. It was only later that I realised that while I
was talking about remembering all those phrases like 'the waters beneath
the Earth', he wasn't! It would be hopeless to expect any Christian to
be able to recite the 10 commandments as written, despite their habitual
praise of them. 

BTW, The Economist had an article last week saying that people
habitually lied about how often they went to church. Of course, if they
bothered to attend church, they would become much better moral citizens
and learn that it is wrong to lie about how often you go to church.

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