Everything And Nothing

Blind faith

Quizzed on the basics of major faiths, many folks don't have a prayer, according to Stephen Prothero's Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know - And Doesn't.

Here's a quiz from his book. See how well you do. You may be surprised.

After all, 60 percent of Americans can't name five of the Ten Commandments, and 50% of high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married.

Sacred Texts

The Internet Sacred Text Archive is the largest freely available archive of full-text books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship.

In addition to sacred texts, the site gathers commentaries, myths, essays, Greek and Roman classics and histories. (The Confucian canon is also available in English and Chinese on the site.)

In order to keep the Web site free, they sell the contents of the site in a searchable CD or DVD format.