“INRI” Stain­glass Win­dow, orig­i­nally uploaded by Cobber99.
taken in Mon­te­v­ideo, MN

So I just took this quiz. Turns out it is a very accu­rate test inso­far as my per­sonal beliefs are con­cerned. The ultra-fundamentalist answers scared me, espe­cially given that so much of Amer­ica answers with those options!

My Results:

More Detail on My Results:
Also some­times referred to as sec­u­lar, mod­ern, or human­is­tic. This is an umbrella term for Protes­tant denom­i­na­tions, or churches within denom­i­na­tions, that view the Bible as the wit­ness of God rather than the word of God, to be inter­preted in its his­tor­i­cal con­text through crit­i­cal analy­sis. Exam­ples include some churches within Anglican/Episcopalian, Lutheran, Methodist, Pres­by­ter­ian, and United Church of Christ. There are more than 2,000 Protes­tant denom­i­na­tions offer­ing a wide range of beliefs from extremely lib­eral to main­line to ultra-conservative and those that include char­ac­ter­is­tics on both ends.

DEBT FREE AT AGE 28!!, orig­i­nally uploaded by lemon­jenny.

This arti­cle and it’s com­ments are quite sad.

Con­sumer debt in Amer­ica is hor­ri­ble! The sto­ries here (some stu­pid, some sad, some amaz­ing, some uplift­ing) speak to a real prob­lem in our soci­ety. What will my gen­er­a­tion do when they retire? We so often hear about the United States as being the wealth­i­est coun­try in the world, how­ever if you pulled the top 5% from that cal­cu­la­tion – how wealthy would we be?

I think our pub­lic school sys­tems need to teach per­sonal finance to our chil­dren. As soon as a per­son turns 18, they are assaulted with credit card offers and often times, they accept because they want the lifestyle that MTV and pop­u­lar cul­ture por­trays. There is a gen­eral stu­pid­ity to per­sonal finance in my gen­er­a­tion to be sure (i.e. the num­ber of peo­ple around me who are so very excited by their high tax return as though that is some­thing to be proud of).

At any rate, these sto­ries got me think­ing today … I need to re-visit my monthly budget!

I took this quiz and think it also reflected me pretty well. Neat.

You scored 70, on a scale of 25 to 100. Here’s how to inter­pret your score:
25 – 29		Hard­core Skep­tic — but inter­ested or you wouldn’t be here!
30 – 39		Spir­i­tual Dab­bler — Open to spir­i­tual mat­ters but far from impressed
40 – 49		Active Spir­i­tual Seeker – Spir­i­tual but turned off by orga­nized religion
50 – 59		Spir­i­tual Strad­dler – One foot in tra­di­tional reli­gion, one foot in free-form spirituality
60 – 69		Old-fashioned Seeker — Happy with my reli­gion but search­ing for the right expres­sion of it
70 – 79		Ques­tion­ing Believer – You have doubts about the par­tic­u­lars but not the Big Stuff
80 – 89		Con­fi­dent Believer – You have lit­tle doubt you’ve found the right path
90 – 100		Can­di­date for Clergy