The Book of Mormon is #3

10 July 2008 @ 4:12 pm | 3 comments

While 84% of Americans consider the Holy Bible to be a holy book, a whopping three percent consider the Book of Mormon to be holy too. That may be low but it’s in good company (and over the Torah!?).

Only three books were recognized as holy by at least 1 percent of Americans. The Koran trailed behind the Bible in second place with 4 percent; the Book of Mormon as labeled by 3 percent as sacred/holy; and the Torah was deemed holy by 2 percent of the public.

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  1. David B’s avatar

    David B on 13 July 2008 at 9:47 am

    All the more impressive given that only a scant 2% or so of the US population is (practicing or non-practicing) Mormon.

  2. David H. Sundwall’s avatar

    David H. Sundwall on 13 July 2008 at 5:53 pm

    Good point David B.

    And I guess the BoM and Torah numbers wouldn’t be too different from each other as there are roughly the same number of Jews as Mormons in the world (13 million) and in the U.S. (6 million).

  3. Daniel Ortner’s avatar

    Daniel Ortner on 12 May 2009 at 7:40 am

    I feel that the lack of identification of the Torah as a holy book primarily comes from ignorance rather than an informed answer. How many surveyed know that the Torah is really the first five books of moses from the old testament. I am sure that all 84% of those that said the bible is a holy book plus more would say so if they knew what it was. Some Jews don’t even know what the term Torah refers to exactly.