Am I a Classical Liberal?
Jun. 9th, 2005 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This religious theology thing was done by everyone so I tried it out. I really don't know what classical liberal means... I agree with some of what it said but I had trouble answering the questions because some of them needed a "WTF" category. Like who is Bishop Spong? ;) Actually, I would be interested to have some of my churchgoing friends answer some questions...
My churchgoing experiences have been sorta varied. Does this sort of quiz go beyond actual churches to more of a philosophical standpoint? Like where would Unitarian be in this scale? That's where my parents took us, when they bothered to take us to church at all. I liked it. There was no hell and lots of shell necklaces and hand-holding and singing. :)
My parents pulled me out of a Baptist youth group when I was 13 because I had nightmares about their Rapture movies. I even went to a really great Pentecostal church when I was in my early 20s, and I learned a lot. But apparently I don't believe anything they had to say? Pentecostal is more of a Fundamentalist thing, isn't it, usually? But they didn't care if I wore shorts and didn't speak in tongues. Hmmm...
My churchgoing experiences have been sorta varied. Does this sort of quiz go beyond actual churches to more of a philosophical standpoint? Like where would Unitarian be in this scale? That's where my parents took us, when they bothered to take us to church at all. I liked it. There was no hell and lots of shell necklaces and hand-holding and singing. :)
My parents pulled me out of a Baptist youth group when I was 13 because I had nightmares about their Rapture movies. I even went to a really great Pentecostal church when I was in my early 20s, and I learned a lot. But apparently I don't believe anything they had to say? Pentecostal is more of a Fundamentalist thing, isn't it, usually? But they didn't care if I wore shorts and didn't speak in tongues. Hmmm...
You scored as Classical Liberal. You are a classical liberal. You are sceptical about much of the historicity of the Bible, and the most important thing Jesus has done is to set us a good moral example that we are to follow. Doctrines like the trinity and the incarnation are speculative and not really important, and in the face of science and philosophy the surest way we can be certain about God is by our inner awareness of him. Discipleship is expressed by good moral behaviour, but inward religious feeling is most important.
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