First off, STOP! Don’t read any further. Immediately go here and welcome Charlie to the blogosphere. My darling, my love, my man has finally joined us. Make him feel welcome.
I’ve been stuck at my desk most of the week without a lunch break, so I’ve been having a little fun with the internet. Spit directed me to belief.net, where they have all kinds of cool quizzes you can take so you can find out what your spiritual path is and what religion you are. It’s fascinating and pretty cool.
On the first take of the quiz, when I wasn’t reviewing the questions very carefully (because Charlie and I had to argue about the nature of God the whole time), I came up 100% Ba’hai. Ever here of it? No, me either. Charlie had because it was a question on Jeopardy (“this religion is the sixth most popular in the world”). I checked it out, and while it seems pretty interesting, they do talk about infidels and I’m just not comfortable with any religion that believe someone can be an infidel (am I a fucking liberal or what?). Plus, it's clear that I was not careful in answering some key points about abortion and gay marriage, because my beliefs are not even CLOSE to the Ba'hai faith on those issues.
So this morning I took it again, much more carefully, and I think I answered some core questions wrong yesterday, because today came up completely different. Here is my top three:
- 100% Liberal Quaker (not just Quaker, but liberal Quaker)
- 99% Mainline to Liberal Protestant (Moxie, stop laughing!)
- 95% Unitarian Universalism
Well, thank god. That’s MUCH better. Yesterday I also tested at 52% Islamic, today I’m only 28%. And I’m proud to be only 15% Roman Catholic. I’m 62% Reform Judaism, 68% (!!!) Christian Scientist (except for my whole pesky belief in DOCTORS), and, sadly, 84% New Age. And 52% Mormon. Which is terrifying, really. Scientology didn’t show up at all, so I guess I’ll never be a famous movie star.
I also took the “What’s your spiritual type?” quiz, which pegged me as a “Spiritual Straddler” with “one foot in new religions and one foot in traditional Christianity.” That reminds me of a saying we have in recovery: “If you’ve got one foot in tomorrow, and one foot in yesterday, you’re pissing all over today.”
So if I’m a “spiritual straddler” am I pissing all over God? Hmmmmmmm...
So, I’m dying to know: what religion are you?
