The Ignorance of Religious People

This is tragic and yet it is a reality: the non-religious people in our society know more about religion than the religious people themselves. Atheists thrive on knowledge and use human reason to ask the hard questions that spiritual seekers ought to be asking. In the modern world, where all of us claim to be educated and scientific, how can it make sense for us to ask so many questions about the latest technology and yet be so poorly informed about our religion?

Here are the latest results of a survey done about religious knowledge... certainly the results are worth noting and taking to heart.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/28/pew-forum-religious-knowledge-survey_n_741349.html

It is a challenge to all of us who want to protect our beliefs and maintain the strength of religion in the future. We cannot simply pass on blind faith and superstition to the next generation. They will not accept it. Rather, we must make the effort to study about our religions and understand them intellectually. Without this, we will never be able to stand against the intellectual, rational attacks of the non-religious.

  

With that I'd like to share two amazing articles on religion from Huffington Post. The first is about updating spirituality and religion. It is exactly dealing with the above subject. How can we adapt to modern times of science and technology without getting rid of the old religious traditions? We must open up to more intellectual understandings. It is a nice short article on how we have to update spirituality and make it current with the times

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-moore/updating-your-spiritualit_b_805013.html

The second is about a recent Hindu festival that just passed -- Makar Sankranti. Great thought was put into each and every element of the Hindu religion but we must take the extra step to understand it and make sense of it rationally. I hope that this article is something informative and eye-opening for Hindus and non-Hindus alike and also inspires us to seek more!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anju-bhargava/makar-sankrant-a-joyous-c_b_808880.html