I'm a Quaker, but I don't eat oats
2003-04-12 - 11:13 a.m.
“COSMO GIRL” GOES PHILOSOPHICAL
"Take this quiz and find out what kind of Religious Cosmo Girl you are!
1. Are you the kind of gal who doesn’t know the difference between a choir robe and a pashmina?
2. Which describes you most closely: A) a Punk Rockin’ Pentecostal who wears white pumps BEFORE Easter, or B) a Christian Cutie who plays by the rule-ies?
3. Which would you choose: Hell in a handbasket, or heaven in a cute little hat?"
Ok, now for real, here is a “Belief-o-Matic” quiz about religion that will help you nail down your beliefs-- just in case, like me, you can't seem to stop them from spinning all in circles and then floating away. If you’ve got 10 minutes to sit down and find out where you stand on how you got here, what you’re supposed to do while you’re here, and where you’re going to go when you’re not here anymore, you really ought to fill in the dots. It’s quite illuminating.
Interestingly, the Belief-o-Matic told me that--despite my having been raised as a Lutheran, and my belief of the last few years that I am really an agnostic--I AM ACTUALLY A UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST, WITH A TOUCH OF LIBERAL QUAKER THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE. You’ll have to write and tell me what it tells you.
After I read the results, I was suddenly thrilled and relieved to know that there’s a group I can belong to, that I can become socially acceptable again and start going to church again--I mean, it's not a Lutheran one, I'm sure my family would say, but at least it's a church at ALL.
But, alas, there are no Unitarian churches in The G Spot’s yellow pages, let alone any Universalist ones. Wouldn’t you know. And you can forget there being any local gathering of the Liberal Quakers.
Bummer. But I guess that just means I can continue sleeping in on Sunday mornings and going to hell in a handbasket.
