what percentage of religious people in the world do you think have read their scripture front to back?

Question

Or you can do it within each religion. I personally think that maybe 10% of people in each religion have read their scripture from front to back. This is counting how many people there are in each religion, rates of illiteracy, how many are really devout, etc.

Answer 1

You know, there is a word to describe people who have read the bible from cover to cover: atheists. lol

Answer 2

in islam we are required to read the quran 2 times in a year, and then 2 times in ramadan the month of fasting, front to back. most muslims just read it all and start over. reading it more than the required amount. i have read it probably 6 or 7 times i have been a muslim almost 2 years. i was christian all my life and not once did i ever read the bible all the way through. but my grandmother reads the bible once a year all the way through front to back, but she is the only person i know who does that. in most bibles i know they have a reading schedule in the back that tells you what to read each day in order to complete it in a year but i really dont know any christians other than gramma that has finished it. hmm good question, but i know in islam most children under age 10 have the entire quran memorized and go for competitions for reciting it. you can see it on youtube,. type in muslim children recite quran and there are a bunch of little kids who try to recite it and a few who are like 8 and 12 years old actually have memorized all of it. and most imams the equavalent of a preacher are supposed to have it all memorized also for to be able to recite the whole thing in ramadan outloud during the night prayers over the period of a month.

Answer 3

Yes, probably correct that it is less than half. But I think it might be higher than 10%. Perhaps 20-35% in the literate world and much much less in the developing world due to lack of "holy books" access. But all this is speculation so, who knows for sure?

It isn't lack of effort. Everyone works 40 hrs full time or more in the U.S. Perhaps the overwork leads people to lose motivation to carefully read; thus propagating christianity from generation to generation based on laymen basis.

Answer 4

A very small percentage and I am not included in that percentage. Not that I havent tried but have you ever tried to read any religious texts front to back - The Torah, Bible, Koran (sp?) they are all quite boring while being punched up periodically with faboulous stories that are quite questionable and sometimes sound like fairy tales.

Answer 5

How many read it front to back and how many understand it front to back are two totally different numbers. The number you suggested might be the number that understand it. So if ten people read the bible or say they read the Bible by themselves, then my best estimate would be that only one person actually understands it. That's the reason we need the Church and the Bible study classes, to help us understand and to get a variety of points of view. GOD BLESS!!

Answer 6

To be fair, it's tricky if you're Jewish. Got to read the entire Tanakh and, if you're thorough, the Talmud as well - that's a whole shelf of books.

Easier if you're Christian. If you're a Muslim, a piece of cake - only one relatively short book, although I've never been able to read more than three consecutive pages of the Qur'an without wanting to fall asleep. After the Book of Mormon, definitely the most boring religious text I have ever tried to read.

Answer 7

I am a Catholic. I have read the entire bible at least 3 or 4 times, But most Catholics aside from nuns and clergy have not. Most of those who attend church have heard the biblical readings at the services. I do not believe that being a Christian is about knowledge, but about love. We fulfill this by obeying the commandments and serving our neighbor.

Answer 8

hmm..
well catholics and christians, most haven't read the bible fully, just know most stories and gospels so I'd say about 30% for them.
then jewish people have the hebrew bible (i think that's what it's called) and i know that on a boy's bar mitzvah he has to read a specific passage from it, but otherwise, I don't think they do. I'd say 50-60%
wiccans are most devoted to a book called, book of shadows, it explains natural and spiritual rituals and beings. it's probably the most interesting, since it is not in the form of a bible. i'd say 70-80%
buddhists direct teachings more from their descendants and ancestors. but not sure about the percentage
muslims have a book called the koran. i know they intently are strict about reading it, so i'd say about 50-60%

and i dont see anyone who is mormon (is that how it's spelled) can read the book of mormon. it's boring and describes things with no great length.

Answer 9

I believe that many of them have read their scripture from front to back. If you spend a life time in one religion you would have to know the word from front to back.

Answer 10

No more than 15%. If that.

Answer 11

I'm Catholic, and in the Church, the entire Bible is read in Mass, little by little, over a three-year period. It takes three years to go through the Bible during the readings in the Mass.

So, in that sense, you can say that every practicing Catholic has been through the Bible at least a few times -- and several times in the case of older Catholics. If they haven't read it themselves, at least they've had it read to them during Mass.

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