Religious Poll

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

I see a subsim Secular Humanism theme here...

I don't know that it's a Subsim thing, necessarily, as IME at least there are almost always a few of the same things that come out in the top 10 every time I see people take this test and show their results.

I suspect it's because those people who are willing to take the test in the first place are already curious - in a positive way - about belief systems other than their own, and thus more likely to be less rigid in their spiritual attitudes. Or they are already asking themselves some of those questions and reconsidering some of the things they were taught and always accepted or never thought about before. Consequently they are more likely to get a list that includes traditions where honest inquiry and curiosity are accepted, encouraged, and not considered a departure from the "true faith."

OTOH people who are very rigid about their beliefs, who cannot accept the possibility that there is more than one possible answer to any of those questions, are probably never going to take that test. They have no reason to, because not questioning what they believe is a fundamental part of their belief system overall.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I ...because not questioning what they believe is a fundamental part of their belief system overall.

My personal feeling these days is that

1. If you can't laugh at yourself, you have no business laughing at anyone else.

2. If you don't question your own personal beliefs, ideas and motivations as much as you question others', you run the risk of never knowing when you're wrong.

[August]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

OTOH people who are very rigid about their beliefs, who cannot accept the possibility that there is more than one possible answer to any of those questions, are probably never going to take that test. They have no reason to, because not questioning what they believe is a fundamental part of their belief system overall.

Or, like me, just can't be arsed to participate in yet another meaningless internet poll.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by August

Or, like me, just can't be arsed to participate in yet another meaningless internet poll.

C'mon, man, what are you afraid of?

Only joking of course. But don't you hate it when people do that for real?

[Takeda Shingen]

Cool. I'm a Quaker. And a Catholic. And a Mainline Protestant. And a Mormon. And a Jehovah's Witness. And an Orthodox Jew. Man, I'm confused.

1. Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends (100 %)
2. Seventh Day Adventist (95 %)
3. Eastern Orthodox (83 %)
4. Roman Catholic (83 %)
5. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (81 %)
6. Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (80 %)
7. Jehovahs Witness (76 %)
8. Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (68 %)
9. Orthodox Judaism (67 %)
10. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (62 %)

[Sailor Steve]

Wow! You're in the majority with all of those?

I was only 50% or higher on four.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Wow! You're in the majority with all of those?

I was only 50% or higher on four.

I know, odd. All I can think of is that the majority of my answers were leveled at 'medium' importance, with only a few rated 'highly' important and none of 'low' importance.

[Betonov]

When it comes to religion I always say, have faith, if not in a deity than in yourselves (isnt that atheism), but when it comes to religion as an instuitution I say disband them all. Just keep some priests for baptisms, weddings and funerals. I want to be burried by a priest than some public official

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Cool. I'm a Quaker. And a Catholic. And a Mainline Protestant. And a Mormon. And a Jehovah's Witness. And an Orthodox Jew. Man, I'm confused.

The good news is, you can't die... they won't know where to send you.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

The good news is, you can't die... they won't know where to send you.

Yeah, but in the meantime I have to keep distributing all of these copies of The Watchtower. I had no idea that salvation was going to be so much work.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Yeah, but in the meantime I have to keep distributing all of these copies of The Watchtower. I had no idea that salvation was going to be so much work.

The upside is the longterm savings on birthday presents and Halloween candy.