Whats your faith?

[thepetek]

Originally Posted by jesus

EDIT: My faith is empirical science. I believe in the physical laws of the nature

Sometime I like to believe you really are Jesus, cruising around in a Prius with a Darwin fish on the bumper, sipping a travel mug of wine, that turns to water if you get pulled over. Yeah.

[Gunderling]

Originally Posted by jessnyc

100% neo-pagan! who woulda thunk it

Me too, exactly. Didn't expect it.

[Rye]

Originally Posted by jesus

That's not true. It's an old, ill-considered misconception
Motivations were...
- Stop the spread of the Muslims
- Recover the holy land
- Something had to be done with the thousands of armed knights sitting around Europe with no more wars to fight, before they started their own wars
- plus a few other reasons. I think current thinking puts looting fairly low down on the list of crusaders' motivations (or not even on the list).

It was only really the 4th crusade that got distracted by looting and even then it was for the very practical reason of desperately needing the cash to pay the Venetians, who manipulated the crusaders for their own reasons

didnt that french king guy just slaughter the crusaders that he owed money too instead of payin?

[BrwnSugaMama]

Originally Posted by ElleJ

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

Take this quiz about what you believe and see if you mesh with a religion.

I took that quiz and got 100% orthodox Jew.... what does that say about me??... weird...

[ElleJ]

Originally Posted by BrwnSugaMama

I took that quiz and got 100% orthodox Jew.... what does that say about me??... weird...

I don't think it really means anything...I'm 100% New Age...

[Inapprope]

I don't know what the fuck I am, I'm basically developing my own beliefs which change sometimes the more I learn and think about it.

[william]

Originally Posted by ElleJ

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

Take this quiz about what you believe and see if you mesh with a religion.

My results:

Interesting to me 'cause of choice #5

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (91%)
3. Liberal Quakers (75%)
4. Nontheist (74%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (68%)

Back in my educated days, Theravada Buddhism rang a fancy for me but I couldn't get past incarnations, karma, Nirvana and other stuff like that so I tossed it in the basket. I like that years later it pops up here!

I call skewed, though 'cause of how certain questions are stated:

11. Doing good works (deeds) and acting compassionately is:
Necessary.
Not necessary.
Not Applicable.

How does answering this and other questions of it's ilk (Should women have equal rights) Necessary lead one to being a Secular Humanist rather than an atheist (nontheist, as they call it)?

Though I will agree that I am a humanist, if I am to be labeled, I see it all as a moot point, besides which I do consider myself anti-religious.

[Bigroger]

Not too sure of this test......
It didn't go deep enough for seperation from different Christians.
(btw number 3 is what I am really)



1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (100%)
2. Jehovah's Witness (95%)
3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (92%)
4. Orthodox Judaism (92%)
5. Islam (84%)
6. Eastern Orthodox (82%)
7. Roman Catholic (82%)
8. Seventh Day Adventist (81%)

[strafer_praha]

You're all going to hell, except for me, I got a connection up there

[jeffdrafttech]

Originally Posted by ElleJ

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

Take this quiz about what you believe and see if you mesh with a religion.

Mine:
1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Neo-Pagan (92%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (90%)
4. Liberal Quakers (86%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (85%)

Secular humanist is defined by that site as a basic social-liberal-athiest, a person with positive values not derived from fear of the invisible man in the sky. Accurate for me.