Quiz re: faith

[pegkerr]

Gacked from jeanineers:

You fit in with: Spiritualism Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms. 80% spiritual. 40% reason-oriented.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Weird. I'm not at all sure about the results. I thought that it was rather Procrustean, trying to force either 'yes' or 'no' answers and they certainly have a different understanding of Christianity than I do--but the way they map the various faiths is interesting and worth discussion.

Edited to add: And here is just one obvious "duh" about the underlying assumptions which shows how poorly this quiz is designed.

Does the designer really think that none of these religions could possibly overlap???

Comments

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

I can already tell just by looking where they place things on the axes that I wouldn't like this quiz.

[sophie-spence.livejournal.com]

I wanted to answer so many of the questions: hmm, well, that depends, what do you mean by "recant" or "redemption" or "explain everything"? The quiz thinks I fit in with Humanism, which does not surprise me - but the map did: where's Islam?

[callunav.livejournal.com]

It's a crock. But it makes pretty colors!

[eatmorewaffles.livejournal.com]

That quiz seems to be very basic. If you want more of a comprehensive religion test, I would recommend the Phd certified (whatever that means exactly, I'm not sure) religion test at Tickle.com. The link can be found here. (http://web.tickle.com/tests/religion/?test=religionogt)

[splagxna.livejournal.com]

their complete separation of reason and faith disturbs me. i can already tell i don't agree with the quizmakers.

"A split between reason and faith is as intolerable as a reduction of faith to what reason will allow." -- Carl Braaten, Christian Dogmatics

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I, and most of the people I know who've taken this, have gotten the 'Spiritualism' result. At least it's on the reasoning end of the spectrum.

I wonder why the designer considers Judeo-Christian belief more 'Scientific' than Buddhist/Hindi religions? (Which at least have some directly experiential practices like yoga/meditation.)

I see the dichotomy between Faith and Reason, but am not sure why they consider Scientific-Spiritual a dichotomy, or the proper countervaling axis. It makes more sense to me to use 'objectively-oriented' vs 'subjectively-oriented' as the 2nd axis. And I think different religions tend to emphasize different sensory-modes, too; i.e.: Christianity focuses on The Light, some pagan religions more on kinaesthetic senses.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

This quiz gave me conniptions when I did it, yes.

I like the Belief-o-Matic better, which, despite the name, has much more flexible and meaningful questions.

[dejaspirit.livejournal.com]

Does the designer really think that none of these religions could possibly overlap???

Sure. If you're a Unitarian. :P

[aeditimi.livejournal.com]

I received the *exact* same results when I took this quiz.

It is my professional theological opinion that the designer of this quiz knows very little about world religions. The major flaw is the assumption that dogma=faith. Oh, and the assumption that the axea of faith-reason and scientific-spiritual couls divide or define any religious tradition. There are adherents of all the faith systems (and non-faith systems) listed who fall anywhere on this graph, so you can't use a person's reason--for example-- to chart her religious convictions.

Also, Muslims seem to not exist.