In preparation for an upcoming meeting, our priest asked members of the "mission church" group at our parish to take the Spiritual Type quiz at beliefnet.com. Here are my results:
Quiz: What's Your Spiritual Type?
You scored 64, on a scale of 25 to 100. Here's how to interpret your score:
25 - 29
Hardcore Skeptic -- but interested or you wouldn't be here!
30 - 39
Spiritual Dabbler -- Open to spiritual matters but far from impressed
40 - 49
Active Spiritual Seeker -- Spiritual but turned off by organized religion
50 - 59
Spiritual Straddler -- One foot in traditional religion, one foot in free-form spirituality
60 - 69
Old-fashioned Seeker -- Happy with my religion but searching for the right expression of it
70 - 79
Questioning Believer -- You have doubts about the particulars but not the Big Stuff
80 - 89
Confident Believer -- You have little doubt you've found the right path
90 - 100
Candidate for Clergy
Taking these kinds of quizzes, while interesting and helpful for discussion starters, often proves frustrating. Many times the choices given to answer a question do not really fit what I think or believe. Here are a couple of examples from the "What's Your Spiritual Type?" quiz:
Q9. I believe that angels:
1. Exist and intervene to assist the pure-hearted
2. Exist but only watch us, taking no action
3. Exist only on the spiritual plane, not in this life
4. Do not exist
Q17. I think children should:
1. Be raised to practice the faith of their parents
2. Be taught spiritual awareness but also to avoid affiliating with formal religion
3. Be encouraged to reject faith in favor of secular philosophy
4. Be exposed to many religious traditions and encouraged to make their own choices
So given the answers I had to choose from, the results to don't surprise me.
There may be an update on this. During our conversation this afternoon about this, Lois said that her "type" came out to be "Quaker," So I'm wondering if she meant for us to take the What Kind of Christian Are You? quiz.
Peace,
Jeffri
And I answered Jeffri, actually the Quaker bit comes from the What is your faith quiz. The what kind of Christian comes up with typing us as being most like one or another famous/infamous Christians. I come up as a "Hillary Clinton Fence Sitter" Christian. Go figure.
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