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[rowyn]

Trickster took this belief selector quiz. Normally I don't go in for quizes, but I decided to give this a try. My top five results were:

1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (77%)
3. Orthodox Quaker (76%)
4. Unitarian Universalism (73%)
5. Reform Judaism (67%)

My bottom five were:

23. Taoism (33%)
24. Jainism (27%)
25. Nontheist (24%)
26. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (23%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (11%)

So. I'm definitely not a Jehovah's Witness. Well, that's a relief.

I thought it was pretty telling that the quiz never asks questions like "Do you believe in the divinity of Christ?" or "Do you believe in {name of deity of your choice}?" The theme seems to be that it doesn't matter who or what you believe in, so much as 'what is your divine kinda like' and 'how does your religion expect you to behave'.

Mph.

Comments

[prester-scott.livejournal.com]

...thus asserting that religion is valuable chiefly (or only) as emotional therapy and community belonging. That it could be a philosophical construct, a mode of spiritual experience, or a path of self-transformation is missed, obviously.

[rowyn]

Yes. I think that sums it up quite nicely. Thank you.

Spiritual Enlightenment

[awolf.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's missed at all.

Spiritual enlightenment like you describe (a philosophical construct, a mode of spiritual experience, or a path of self-transformation) is available to people in any religion. At least, as far as subjective reports go, it seems to be.

So those sorts of things don't really differentiate one religion from the next. Whether or not they're more important is an interesting question, but they're certainly not relevant to the quiz.

Trickster