I'm not sure how far this is affected by the fact that most of the questions are completely outside my cultural experience (and an awful lot more would be if I didn't read slacktivist), but..
"Low CHQ. You probably belong to the purpose-driven, seeker-sensitive, Hawaiian shirt-wearing Christian establishment,"
I have no idea what this means. But I think I've just sprained something trying to imagine Synod in Hawaiian shirts.
We had a curate once who wore Hawaiian clerical shirts. I'll leave you to imagine C's reaction.
(Meanwhile, in last week's Sunday School the vicar's wife, leading it, managed to say both that Noah's Flood was about 4000 years ago and that Jesus didn't really die, which is an interesting take on Biblical literalism. I think I'll carry on doing the religious spiritual education at home, thankyouverymuch, and let church be the place where we practice sitting quietly and not destroying 800 year old architecture. The difference between me and evangelicals would seem to be that I know I'm heretical).
I swither between C S Lewis (universalism) and Terry Pratchett (annihilation for those who believe that annihilation is what they'll get). And occasionally I wake up terrified that all the flaming stuff might actually be true.
I've been a Christian of one sort or another since I was 16, so that's 19 years now. I was only involved with the fundies for three of those years (and was detaching myself by halfway through the second year). It leaves an awful lot of scars for so short a space of time.
They told us once that studies showed that only 10% of the members would still call themselves Christians a decade after graduation (Angsoc's response was a quick tally-up and the declaration that we currently had a 10% ordination rate, never mind retention of faith). This was because the 90% were bad, bad people, and had nothing whatsoever to do with the CU and their doings at all.
I've already been told I'm a Patripassian tonight (we were dissecting the Creeds. As we do on a Saturday night. Possibly one or other of us should get ordained).
Yeah, I have to admit that Patripassionism has been declared heretical. On the other hand, given the number of things which are major formal heresies and are taught as if they were Christian doctrine, I figure God'll give me a pass on the old Patripassionism. (My Christian ed group had a little debate as to whether that or Pelagianism was the favoured heresy, but I've always fallen back on the out that Semi-Pelagianism is okay …)
Sadly, I don't think it is obviously and overtly any of the identified formal heresies -- mostly because there's been no way to declare definitive formal heresy since the church has been in a state of schism, and there was no Prosperity Gospel or anything like it in the 6th century. I mean, even the heretics back then weren't that absurd.
Still, I'm sure there's a way to make the case indirectly ...
The Prosperity Gospel is one of the few things that does actually make me want to yell "Heresy! Perversion of the Gospel! How DARE YOU!" but I don't do that and so I determinedly drink some tea instead.
When we obey God, we're not doing it for God...we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy. Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.
Also, to quote my old college chaplain, "It's true that the creeds require you to believe there's a hell. They don't require you to believe that anyone's in it."
There were an awful lot of questions where they didn't offer me "none of the above" (and I am pretty sure that when I said that my parents and I had the same opinions about gay marriage, abortion etc, I didn't mean that in the way the quiz intended)… but given what I had to work with I got 80/120 -- "High CHQ … you are a Christian hipster to some degree."
If I'd left questions blank, three-quarters of them would have been. For instance, C.S. Lewis is a "least worst" choice for me.
My parents were active (one on the Vestry) in having their parish call a gay priest, and have been supportive of their Meeting's* adopting a "welcoming statement", meaning that GLBT... people are welcome and thus causing yet another Friends schism.
* living in supported housing now, and Meeting's easier to get to.
I apparently have a fairly high CHQ but I suspect it's because I had no idea what most of the answers meant. I did boggle a bit at What Prevents You From Becoming A Catholic?
Also there is such a thing as a christian film and it's In Bruges.
58/120. I also failed to recognise most of the questions/answers. However I think I damaged my street cred by admitting to agreeing with my parents on things.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 07:39 pm (UTC)"Low CHQ. You probably belong to the purpose-driven, seeker-sensitive, Hawaiian shirt-wearing Christian establishment,"
I have no idea what this means. But I think I've just sprained something trying to imagine Synod in Hawaiian shirts.
no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 07:46 pm (UTC)(Meanwhile, in last week's Sunday School the vicar's wife, leading it, managed to say both that Noah's Flood was about 4000 years ago and that Jesus didn't really die, which is an interesting take on Biblical literalism. I think I'll carry on doing the religious spiritual education at home, thankyouverymuch, and let church be the place where we practice sitting quietly and not destroying 800 year old architecture. The difference between me and evangelicals would seem to be that I know I'm heretical).
no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 08:55 pm (UTC)I've been a Christian of one sort or another since I was 16, so that's 19 years now. I was only involved with the fundies for three of those years (and was detaching myself by halfway through the second year). It leaves an awful lot of scars for so short a space of time.
no subject
Date: 2014-09-07 08:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-07 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-07 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-08 07:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 09:47 pm (UTC)Whoops, missed your response lower down.
no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 09:54 pm (UTC)Still, I'm sure there's a way to make the case indirectly ...
no subject
Date: 2014-09-07 08:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-09 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-07 08:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-07 08:29 am (UTC)Also, to quote my old college chaplain, "It's true that the creeds require you to believe there's a hell. They don't require you to believe that anyone's in it."
no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-06 08:45 pm (UTC)Um, I guess?
no subject
Date: 2014-09-07 05:15 pm (UTC)My parents were active (one on the Vestry) in having their parish call a gay priest, and have been supportive of their Meeting's* adopting a "welcoming statement", meaning that GLBT... people are welcome and thus causing yet another Friends schism.
* living in supported housing now, and Meeting's easier to get to.
no subject
Date: 2014-09-07 06:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-07 08:39 am (UTC)Also there is such a thing as a christian film and it's In Bruges.
no subject
Date: 2014-09-07 01:53 pm (UTC)