What do you think of this test?

[ButterflyBlood]

http://www.beliefnet.com/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=10002&surveyID=83

I got a 202, which classifies me as a "Left-leaning Traditionalist", which is pretty accurate. However I know some rather liberal people who were classified as Jerry Falwell Christians, which needless to say pissed them off quite a bit. Not only does it have many questions where the answers given aren't sufficient, but it picks poor examples as it's almost all stories about Jesus, and it's clear to see that someone can believe Jesus walked on water literally and be a liberal and not be a fundamentalist, while the verses about gay marriage and the like are not included.

So anyway, what do you get?

[Warpy]

1. Right on the edge between secular

and biblical revisionist, exactly where a very bad Buddhist with a passing knowledge of the NT ought to be.

[Tux]

2. LOL

60 - 149
You are a Bishop Spong Christian (a.k.a. "Biblical Revisionist").

[TahitiNut]

3. Yup. (I crossed out what's not true.)

Bishop Spong Christian
(a.k.a. "Biblical Revisionist")
You think the Bible is a powerful metaphorical narrative and believe that Jesus was a heroic figure similar to Gandhi. You believe in God as a loving creator and that She will forgive you for just about anything. You're willing to admit that you don't believe in the resurrection. You go to church for the sense of community and the music and because you like to hector your fellow Christians about their backward ways. You read Toni Morrison, Elaine Pagels, and Bishop Spong, the controversial Episcopalian prelate. You enjoyed the "The Da Vinci Code" as a thriller and found its ideas about Christian history thought-provoking, if not always historically accurate. Though you probably didn't see it, you're sure that "The Passion of the Christ" presented an utterly backward version of Christianity. You ardently support gay rights and feel guilty that you yourself are not gay. (If you are gay, you're in a loving, committed relationship). You live in a leafy university town, order Chai at the local coffee house (never Starbucks), and subscribe to The New Yorker. You watch TV so you can talk disdainfully about how bad TV is. You give to charity, preferring the local homeless shelter to those bureaucratic national charities. For you, the crux of Christianity is Jesus' revolutionary message of empowering "the least of these."

[The Animator]

4. I scored a 58

58 = Roman Catholic turned athiest, who has also read the DaVinci Code.

Lemme try again I'm sure I can score lower. I'm gonna try for a negative score, at least minion of satan or something.

The trouble with this survey is that it assumes your a Christian, which to me, is fundamentally offensive.

[madmom]

5. according to them I'm a

Jesse Ventura christian, but I'm not a christian at all. I don't go to church on holidays, that would be hypocritical no? If this is the ONE true religion and god why are there so many similar stories that predate them by thousands of years?:shrug:

[qazplm]

6. I got a 139

which is pretty weird considering I have been an agnostic since I was a kid!

I guess I do view Jesus as a real historical figure who was a lot in the vein of Ghandi or Confuscious and had a good philosophy that was way ahead of it's time although he still didnt address a lot of things like slavery for example.

Almost none of their "description" described me at all.

[MissMarple]

7. Those are very strange choices. I couldn't take the test.

Maybe it's because I'm a deist, but I'm thinking there are Christians who can't respond to those questions with such bizarre multiple choices. Unless you take the bible literally, it seems to me that test is nonsense.

Was it a April Fool's Day joke?

On edit. I did take their belief o matic the other day (it's on the wwww.beliefnet.com home page), and I matched 100% with UU and 98% with liberal, mainstream protestant denominations. :D

[Nikia]

8. I scored with Bush, Sr

I don't think it is accurate at all for politics. It seemed more about whether you believed in the Bible and Jesus, not whether you believe certain things are sins or not. For some of the questions, I didn't agree with any of the choices or thought that something in between the options was truer to my belief. I guess that is true of all multiple choice tests though that don't include all the possibilities. I started not liking multiple choice tests after going to a college where such things were rare.

[supernova]

9. 188, Lef-Leaning Traditionalist

but I'm actually more of a John Spong Christian since I don't really believe in the classical resurrection.

[Igel]

10. I rejected all the possibilities on a bunch of questions.

It couldn't give me a score.

[More Than A Feeling]

11. 316, a right leaning traditionalist.

That is a switch, I used to be a left-leaning traditionalist.

[IowaGuy]

12. 311...har....I haven't been to church in over 25 years.....

can't stand the hypocrites in those places...I've seen more of Gods grace in the eyes of winos than I've ever seen in those people.

[malmapus]

13. 247 hmmmm

150 - 249
You are a Hillary Rodham Clinton Christian (a.k.a. "Left-Leaning Traditionalist").

edit: kinda scared I scored a few pts short of *