The always-great Mollie Z. Hemingway does a much-needed debunking of the Washington Post’s much-talked story about Facebook and the angst it supposedly creates by requiring people to list their religion:

The thing is that [WaPo reporter William] Wan is handicapped by Facebook declining to share any meaningful information about how people fill out the form. We learn that only 150 million out of 250 million users worldwide fill out the “religious views” box but not how that compares to other profile areas. We don’t have any reasonable statistical information. Presumably the 2,000 folks who answer “Amish” aren’t being serious.

I must admit I liked one Facebook explanation Wan noted: “Agnostic, but accepting offers.”