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I had to post this quiz:
Usually these kinds of quizzes never include animals I would ever consider my totem to be, but look what I got:
Close cousin of the magpie. Finally a good totem quiz. And isn't he gorgeous?:-)
I still needed a three-way tie-breaker question--dragon and fox are pretty cool too. When I first read the result I thought it said "cow."
If you remember I mentioned that friend of mine I was sponsoring to become Catholic? Well, I'm now officially a godmother. The ceremony went really well and we partied afterwards-hurrah. I gave her a Mary medal she was luckily too clueless to have figured out I was buying for her even when I pestered her for details about exactly what kind she wanted when she mentioned buying one for herself once she was baptized. She's always very easy to put one over on, that way.
Last night she took the religion quiz and got this:
Pretty good for somebody only Christian two days! Okay, I did have to remind her that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit really are one god but the trinity is just tricky if it's new (oddly, she said the Protestants in her RCIA class seemed to have as much trouble with it as she did--maybe there's more emphasis on it in a different way in Catholicism?). We were sort of the opposite on a lot of things we answered on this test, and she was particularly surprised we had very different views on evil (she thinks of it as existing as an independent thing and I don't). When I did the text I came out Buddhist/Pagan leaning Buddhist after a tiebreaker. She's very not-a-Buddhist. In fact, when she read the statement "All life is suffering" she assumed that "must be a Protestant thing." I explained "suffering" in Buddhism isn't what she thought of as suffering, really. She's just much more of a cling-to-life-with-both-hands type person, though not in an afraid-of-death way. When I did my 10-day Vipassana retreat (All meditating! All day! All the time!) I remember her telling me she really didn't think it was a good idea for me to go to anything that encouraged me to be more detached. So she wound up with Christianity #1--I think it was one of my lowest answers.
The odd thing about this, particularly concerning evil, was last night she also told me how she came to decide to really join the Catholic church after ten years of thinking it would be cool and "channel 13-ing it" (meaning like when you watch Public Television but don't pledge or become a member). One of the people who came to her baptism was this guy, C, whom I had met once before when we went out to dinner. Turns out that dinner was when she decided to do this because she had brought up the question of evil and liked the answer that C and I gave about it, having both been raised Catholic. P sees evil as being much stronger than good because there's so much of it in the world it's a wonder any good at all can exist. We both said the Christian view was that good was always stronger than evil because God was good. Evil was just a perversion of good, and the devil himself was just a creation of God's so could never be more powerful. She really liked that idea, and that's what made her seriously consider joining the church.
Ironically, her oddball neighbor who also goes to the church has apparently been telling everybody she was the one that got her in there. Oh well. Anyway, that's maybe why P was surprised to hear that I answered most of the "evil" questions on the test differently than she did, believing there was no evil, only people. But I do still believe in the basic idea C and I said to her at dinner that night. I might not think of it in terms of God being more powerful than the Devil, or good and evil as independent forces, but I do think that good is just inherently stronger than evil. A relationship formed on things we think of as bad just isn't as strong, it seems to me, nor a person who bases their decision on things like that. Evil overlords have a devil of a time trying to keep people in order. You might be powerful, but you'd still be unstable, I think. It's like a tower where the "good" tower might not be as high, but the foundations would be more solid. The "bad" tower would be higher, but unstable, and liable to topple over any second, probably with the help of several people inside it. That's just how it seems to me, instinctively.
I don't really think of myself as knowing very much about many religions, but P seemed to think I knew an awful lot more than she did. Actually, I could have minored in religion in college. I did study it a lot. I just don't feel like I "get" too many religions. Like Islam, no matter how many times I tried to study it, still just went right over my head.
Usually these kinds of quizzes never include animals I would ever consider my totem to be, but look what I got:
 | You scored as Crow. You are the Crow. You are able to discover your own character and help others find themselves as well. You are very creative in the field you are in and tend to be the intelligent one of the bunch.
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Close cousin of the magpie. Finally a good totem quiz. And isn't he gorgeous?:-)
I still needed a three-way tie-breaker question--dragon and fox are pretty cool too. When I first read the result I thought it said "cow."
If you remember I mentioned that friend of mine I was sponsoring to become Catholic? Well, I'm now officially a godmother. The ceremony went really well and we partied afterwards-hurrah. I gave her a Mary medal she was luckily too clueless to have figured out I was buying for her even when I pestered her for details about exactly what kind she wanted when she mentioned buying one for herself once she was baptized. She's always very easy to put one over on, that way.
Last night she took the religion quiz and got this:
 | You scored as Christianity. Your views are most similar to those of Christianity. Do more research on Christianity and possibly consider being baptized and accepting Jesus, if you aren't already Christian. Christianity is the second of the Abrahamic faiths; it follows Judaism and is followed by Islam. It differs in its belief of Jesus, as not a prophet nor historical figure, but as God in human form. The Holy Trinity is the concept that God takes three forms: the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Ghost (sometimes called Holy Spirit). Jesus taught the idea of instead of seeking revenge, one should love his or her neighbors and enemies. Christians believe that Jesus died on the cross to save humankind and forgive people's sins.
Which religion is the right one for you? (new version) created with QuizFarm.com |
Pretty good for somebody only Christian two days! Okay, I did have to remind her that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit really are one god but the trinity is just tricky if it's new (oddly, she said the Protestants in her RCIA class seemed to have as much trouble with it as she did--maybe there's more emphasis on it in a different way in Catholicism?). We were sort of the opposite on a lot of things we answered on this test, and she was particularly surprised we had very different views on evil (she thinks of it as existing as an independent thing and I don't). When I did the text I came out Buddhist/Pagan leaning Buddhist after a tiebreaker. She's very not-a-Buddhist. In fact, when she read the statement "All life is suffering" she assumed that "must be a Protestant thing." I explained "suffering" in Buddhism isn't what she thought of as suffering, really. She's just much more of a cling-to-life-with-both-hands type person, though not in an afraid-of-death way. When I did my 10-day Vipassana retreat (All meditating! All day! All the time!) I remember her telling me she really didn't think it was a good idea for me to go to anything that encouraged me to be more detached. So she wound up with Christianity #1--I think it was one of my lowest answers.
The odd thing about this, particularly concerning evil, was last night she also told me how she came to decide to really join the Catholic church after ten years of thinking it would be cool and "channel 13-ing it" (meaning like when you watch Public Television but don't pledge or become a member). One of the people who came to her baptism was this guy, C, whom I had met once before when we went out to dinner. Turns out that dinner was when she decided to do this because she had brought up the question of evil and liked the answer that C and I gave about it, having both been raised Catholic. P sees evil as being much stronger than good because there's so much of it in the world it's a wonder any good at all can exist. We both said the Christian view was that good was always stronger than evil because God was good. Evil was just a perversion of good, and the devil himself was just a creation of God's so could never be more powerful. She really liked that idea, and that's what made her seriously consider joining the church.
Ironically, her oddball neighbor who also goes to the church has apparently been telling everybody she was the one that got her in there. Oh well. Anyway, that's maybe why P was surprised to hear that I answered most of the "evil" questions on the test differently than she did, believing there was no evil, only people. But I do still believe in the basic idea C and I said to her at dinner that night. I might not think of it in terms of God being more powerful than the Devil, or good and evil as independent forces, but I do think that good is just inherently stronger than evil. A relationship formed on things we think of as bad just isn't as strong, it seems to me, nor a person who bases their decision on things like that. Evil overlords have a devil of a time trying to keep people in order. You might be powerful, but you'd still be unstable, I think. It's like a tower where the "good" tower might not be as high, but the foundations would be more solid. The "bad" tower would be higher, but unstable, and liable to topple over any second, probably with the help of several people inside it. That's just how it seems to me, instinctively.
I don't really think of myself as knowing very much about many religions, but P seemed to think I knew an awful lot more than she did. Actually, I could have minored in religion in college. I did study it a lot. I just don't feel like I "get" too many religions. Like Islam, no matter how many times I tried to study it, still just went right over my head.
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agnosticism
Satanism
Buddhism
Paganism
Christianity
atheism
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
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Hahahahaha.
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Of course in your case it doesn't really count. You only like Satan because of your bad boy fixation. Plus he's often played by hawt actors in the movies.
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Isn't that just life, though? God, obviously (who plays God, anyway, in comparison? Alanis Morrisette? Morgan Freeman? I think I will stick with Satanism, thanks! ;) creates this perfect universe, but who does every girl fall in love with? The Devil. It's bad boy syndrome, isn't it? It's very depressing.