How to determine my spirituality/religious beliefs?

Question

Recently, I've been thinking about religion and wondering what word would describe my situation.

Personally, I do not follow a single religion. I don't believe that one single religion is "the one". In fact, I believe that each religion is equally worthy. I am willing to listen and learn about religion but I don't like it if people try to force their faith/religion upon me.

In the past I said I was Agnostic, but I don't believe that is the right terminology for me

Apeman & beatlefan>>

This is the result from the test:

1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (92%)
3. Liberal Quakers (78%)
4. New Age (78%)
5. Mahayana Buddhism (75%)
6. Secular Humanism (69%)
7. Theravada Buddhism (69%)
8. Jainism (67%)
9. Reform Judaism (67%)
10. Sikhism (60%)
11. Hinduism (58%)
12. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (57%)
13. Bahá'í Faith (55%)
14. Taoism (50%)
15. Nontheist (41%)
16. Orthodox Judaism (39%)
17. New Thought (38%)
18. Scientology (36%)
19. Orthodox Quaker (35%)
20. Islam (32%)
21. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (23%)
22. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (20%)
23. Seventh Day Adventist (16%)
24. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (15%)
25. Eastern Orthodox (13%)
26. Roman Catholic (13%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (10%)

Answer 1

How about we label you "reasonably intelligent"?

Answer 2

You sound like a Universalist / Unitarian.
http://www.beliefnet.com has a thing on there for entertainment, it is called the belief-o-matic, you answer questions about your beliefs, and it spits out a list of religions you are most compatible with...

Answer 3

You sound like me! I call myself a "Student of Truth" and avoid the label of any organized church or religion.

Answer 4

The "stit" in prostitution and the "stem" in system have a roughly similar derivation - to make stand. People who are paid to expose the reliance they personally have on the system of mythology, the real reason for which it is forbidden to say, with a view to keeping it as the way to govern society are prostitutes.

According to Joseph Campbell in Creative Mythology, society exists as a state of tension between traditional mythology (social rites) and creative mythology (personal insights). Each needs the other. Creative mythology needs the health care of traditional mythology. Somewhere, either because of the unwarranted faith of traditional mythology in "normal" human nature (suits are often flabbergasted at the atrocities they read about in the newspaper and may even request that references to anything they personally can't handle be "deleted" - just yesterday someone I know who had a fairly good job was saying "why should I see an alcoholic drunk Aboriginal family sitting near the pathway as I'm going home from work?") or the insistence of the creative mythologists in putting instances of the failure of the "elite" to deal with everybody's problems in their faces, fear-based responses beget even more fear-based responses. The elite may seem to be literate, but literacy is different to a love of literature or scripture, which requires an appreciation of metaphor, which requires non-involvement in any cults or secret societies.

There is no moral reason why anybody should have to work for money. (I'm barracking for Christianity, by the way.) There is no reason why anybody should have their childhood imagination stolen from them and then be forced to count and measure the effectiveness of the oligarchical (families acting as totalitarian dictatorships) elements of the world so as to "earn" the right to a pay cheque and buy some imagination back.

There is no point to pursuing money. Isaiah 65:2 says about God - "All day long I held out my hands to an obstainate people, who walk in ways not good pursuing their own imaginations." It is a guilt-sharing mechanism as a public liturgy to the quest for avoiding the consequences of the human capacity for evil. In the first century, the newly converted Christians met every day at the temple (the Jewish infrastructure) and shared everything they had (Acts 4:32).

Christians are supposed to be in subjection to the superior authorities, not the myth-makers (Romans 13). The superior authorities means those whose inscription is on the back of coins (Matthew 22:18-21 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, "Whose image is this? And whose inscription?" "Caesar's," they replied. Then he said to them, "Give back to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."). There is no excuse for starting underground movements, like Corrie ten Boom was involved in during WWII. (Why would you put 800 Jews in cupboards?) Habakkuk 2:2 says to write revelations down on tablets so that a herald may run with it. This seems to apply to situations where society is violent and it doesn't seem to be stopping.

Jesus was the Word or Logos (John 1:1). I was brought up to believe that it is impolite to expect others to read your mind, to make personal comments, to disrespect the dead, to point the finger, to fight back etc. In Matthew 13, after John the Baptiser had been killed (this seems similar to Isaiah 57:1-8), there was a gathering of 5000 people. I don't think these people were hungry. Poor people don't gather in groups of 5000. It was a countryside wake. Everybody would have been wondering how to talk to Jesus as the bereaved. Jesus gave thanks to God before he started giving food out. It was just a matter of convincing people that it was socially appropriate to eat in his presence. The basics of life that need to be respected are food, clothes, children, family, marriage etc.

Answer 5

Here's a 20 question test to find out what religion you are nearest to
http://www.selectsmart.com/RELIGION/

Let me know how you get on

Answer 6

do you in believe in the truth you can find in poetry and art? It's a whole world of magic.