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Aug. 20th, 2002 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowynTrickster 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.
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.
Not being a member of an organized religion is different from being a nontheist
Date: 2002-08-21 08:14 am (UTC)It's easy for me to imagine someone who has general theological beliefs, but is unhappy with the religion into which he was born. Such a person might want to try to "shop for a religion ... based on how it fits [his] needs" without thinking of this as a cynical exercise at all. He simply hasn't discovered the right community with which to worship yet and wants one which shares (most of) his values and beliefs.
Religion is more than hierarchies and buildings. I believe that a person can be religious without having ever attended a church/synagogue/mosque....
Telnar