Stupid Internet Survey: What’s my religious philosophy?

What’s Your Religious Philosophy?

You scored as Mystical Communion Model.

You are a Self-Discoverer. You’re not religious, but you’ve created your own kind of spirituality. Introspective and thoughtful, you tend to look inward for the divine. You are distrusting of all forms of organized religion. You especially dislike religious gurus and leaders, who you feel are charlatans.

What’s Your Religious Philosophy?
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So this quiz was utter crap.

See, the reason I don’t usually post these bloody things anymore is because they’re written by idiots. You can see this by my answers.

1. What best describes how you feel about belief in God / religion?

❎ You think it is impossible to tell whether God exists or not. No. Not when he talks to me.

❎ You feel that sincere belief will lead you to God. No. I could be sincere yet wrong.

✅ You think beliefs are no more than wishes or dreams. Yes. Sadly, most of the time, this is true. Everyone’s beliefs are, ultimately, based on what they hope is true. Even pessimists.

2. You think belief is blind and only the blind believe.

No. Some of us believe because our eyes are wide open and we’re no longer able to close them.

3. You think God:

✅ Will reward you in heaven for your deeds on earth. Yes. But I think another answer is more true.

❎ Was created by man, in our image. No. But certainly our beliefs about him are warped by comparing him to humans.

✅ Is unknowable. Yes. Which is why he has to descend to our level.

✅ Can only be known by actually meeting God. Yes. And I liked this answer best, so I picked it. And since the quiz-writer gave me only one option, this results in an incomplete result. Which you knew already.

4. What’s the closest to truth?

✅ Your soul will survive death. True. But not the most true.

✅ There is no convincing reason why there should be a God. True, in that there’s no reason why there should be a God. But that has nothing to do with why he exists. There’s no reason why there should be a K.W. Leslie, for that matter.

✅ There are simple scientific explanations for the universe. True. Those we’ve discovered have been pretty simple; there’s no reason to expect that future discoveries will be overly complex.

✅ Anything you discover about the divine will be firsthand. MOST true. Not just semantically—because if it’s not firsthand, it’s not your discovery; it’s someone else’s—but because it never sinks into us properly unless it’s something God shows us himself.

5. What viewpoint are you most likely to take issue with?

❎ You can’t enjoy the world without knowing God. You can’t enjoy it with knowing God either. Once you know God, you won’t enjoy the world because it’s so messed up that it grieves him—and you too. Of course, there are also good things in life that you’ll supremely enjoy, and more so once you know God. (I could go either way on this one.)

❎ All religions have equal amounts of truth and corruption. Definitely no issue. Some would say Christianity stands out because it’s the most true, but I would say for this very reason Christianity suffers from more corruption. Just look at all the heretical Christian sects out there. Insisting “They aren’t really Christian” doesn’t properly deal with the issue.

❎ God is omnipotent. No issue. Considering what he’s got me out of, his almightiness is rather obvious.

✅ Spiritual or religious leaders can help you get closer to God. Okay, there I take issue. Religious leaders can be helpful, but most of the time they get in the way because we depend on them when we’re supposed to be depending directly on God.

6. You are most interested in:

✅ Keeping an open mind on the subject of God. Not MOST intrested. But of course yes. Only an idiot thinks he knows it all about God.

✅ Philosophy (as opposed to religion). Still not MOST interested. But curious; I want to know what others think.

❎ Exploring who you are and where you have come from. No; I did that already. I’m still trying to fix what I’ve found.

✅ Serving God’s purpose while you are on earth. Yes.

And my result was that dumbass conclusion, based on the fact that I didn’t just produce knee-jerk Christian reactions to everything.

I am religious. I have not created my own kind of spirituality; I’ve adopted that of others, following the leading of my Rabbi. Okay, I’m introspective and thoughtful, but I don’t look inward for the divine, because he’s not me. I’m not distrusting of organized religion; I believe in a healthy skepticism, and disorganized religion is hardly an alternative. I don’t dislike gurus and leaders, and don’t feel they’re charlatans (though some are, and others are hypocrites); but as a Christian we have only one Rabbi, the Messiah, and we should remember that.

So there.