“I know very few people who are as obsessed with the fine details of religion as highly motivated unbelievers”

There’s been lots of ink spilled—the real and digital kind—about the recent Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life revealing that Americans don’t know much about religion. I knew if I waited a day or two, Terry Mattingly would do my writing for me:

The sexy lede out of this study is that atheists and agnostics know more about religion than, well, religious people. That is just accurate enough to be misleading. It’s also not all that surprising. I know very few people who are as obsessed with the fine details of religion as highly motivated unbelievers.

When it comes to how mainstream news outlets have covered this story, Mattingly’s post critiques the good the bad and the ugly. Always worth stopping by Get Religion.