Are We or Aren't We?

Stephen Colbert raises a reasonable question here. Are we a Christian nation or just a bunch of self righteous assholes? We've taken Jesus who was a brown skinned liberal Jew who provided excellent free health care (ask Lazarus), believed in redistribution of wealth and travelled with a prostitute and changed him into white union busting conservative. The problem seems to be the fact that while most Americans claim to be Christians they have very little knowledge about what is actually in the Bible. You would think being a Christian that Bible literacy would be important. Studies indicate that over 95% of all American households own at least one copy of the Bible. It makes it difficult to understand the results of studies which examine American's Bible knowledge.

Less than half of those asked were able to name the first five books of the Bible.

Only half knew that John the Baptist was not one of the 12 apostles.

82% believed that "God helps those who help themselves" is a biblical verse.

60% can't name more than 5 of the 10 commandments.

12% of adults believed Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Almost 50% of high school seniors thought Sodom and Gomorrah were a married couple.

It would seem with the recent Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court that corporations with closely held religious beliefs should have plenty of fun objecting to laws based on religious beliefs. Since lots of us apparently don't know or care what the Bible says we can pretty much justify anything as a closely held religious belief. Sodom and Gomorrah should be a very happy married couple.

Stephen, I'm sure somewhere in the scriptures there is a verse that tells the poor that they are on their own. If there isn't I'm sure one of these Bible thumping idiots will write it in.