Are you smarter than an atheist? In a book titled Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – And Doesn’t, university professor Stephen Prothero wrote that “Americans are both deeply religious and profoundly ignorant about religion.” This summer, researchers from the independent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life conducted a survey to find out just how ignorant we are. The answer seems to be “yeah, pretty ignorant.” On average, Americans correctly answered only 16 of the 32 religious knowledge questions on the Bible, some basic elements of Christianity, Judaism, Mormonism, and world religions, the role of religion in civic life, and the definitions of agnostic