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Sunday Stalwart Cannoli Send a noteboard - 13/09/2018 07:15:25 PM

There does seem to bit a bit of a monotheistic Abrahamic bias to the quiz

Or an anti- bias. It seems really geared at specifying all the ways one does NOT participate, with not much gradation in actual practices. For instance, there is the issue of what God is like. The choices are IIRC, don't believe in God, believe in the Bible's version of God or believe in some power in the universe. That middle option doesn't come close to covering the spectrum of belief in God just in Christianity, let alone other Abrahamic faiths. Also, the references to the Bible were clearly from the mind of someone who doesn't have much to do with it. Heck, I don't see the Bible in that way, and I graded out as a Sunday Stalwart. The largest Christian denomination is Roman Catholic, and a serious issue of contention between us and the prots is over sola scriptura. For us, the Bible is a resource, like the Catechism or canon law. Spiritual reading isn't just the Bible, but mediations and such written by saints and theologians. Revelation and other sources of divine knowledge have just as much weight as the Scriptures do in our religious life. The Bible is the foundation of Christian theology, but it's not the whole structure. Protestants huddle in the basement and pretend it is, but we're all about the other floors as well, and we frequently consult the Architect and Homeowner. Just judging someone's religious typology on "Bible? Yes or no." tells you more about the author of the quiz than anyone who took it.

Cannoli
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