Comments on: So I took this quiz, see…

By: Ing

Ing — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:31:13 +0000

See, that’s where the quiz got it wrong! 🙂 It’s funny how true the “you can leave it but you can’t leave it alone” thing really is. But I dunno… Maybe it should be “you can’t leave, but you can’t leave it *behind*.” Kind of like how people are always puzzled by the fact that I store lots of food, but I just don’t feel safe without that 3 month supply in the closet.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:25:31 +0000

But haggis, you are a free spirit! Ing, blissfully non-Mormon? I beg to differ. You can leave the church, but you can't leave it alone. ;)

By: Ing

Ing — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:50:53 +0000

I love taking quizzes like this. (Maybe it’s a personality flaw…maybe it’s a medical condition…I’m waiting for some pharmaceutical company to come out with a patch for it.)

“Blissfully non-Mormon,” it calls me. Although that doesn’t address the circumstance of my having been raised in the traditional Utah Mormon way, I guess it’s reasonably accurate.

I love the picture that came with the results page: one of those old Mormonad style posters (how many of you have ever seen those?) saying, “Church can be like a drug…a drug that makes you really bored and want to go home.” That about sums up religion for me. 🙂

By: haggis

haggis — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:37:47 +0000

Aw, that’s nice. Instead of labeling me a heathen, it calls me a “free spirit.” LOL I scored as high as 2% higher than my peers. To be fair, I don’t think I’d fare any better no matter what religion they were testing me for. . . (LOL–I’m waiting for the test that explains my uncontrollable urge to take stupid quizzes.)

I do agree the questions box you in too much. I also home-schooled for a while because FL schools bite the big weenie, and it always irked me that this seemed to automatically lump me in with fundamentalist weirdos.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:22:14 +0000

Well, I’m not an official (if there is such a thing) Jack Mormon ‘cuz I go and I don’t drink or smoke. I *ahem* waited until I got married.

Er…lessee…politically somewhere in outer darkness, I’m sure, sitting between Camille Paglia (on her right) and Ayn Rand (on her left) and greeting people with “Blessed be” and “Merry meet.”

::gallic shrug::

I think I’m going to have to wait for the Great Quiz in the Sky to find out.

By: chanson

chanson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:15:19 +0000

lol, the quiz definitely left a lot to be desired in terms of nuance.

It sounds like you would logically score highly on belief, but you’re a bit out of the mainstream in terms of practice. What category do you think it should have put you in? Jack Mormon? Surely not “liberal Mormon”… 😉

By: RJ Keller

RJ Keller — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:00:38 +0000

Ha! Very apt comparison. 🙂

By: MoJo

MoJo — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:39:04 +0000

I really resented the implication in the quiz that the only reason parents homeschool their kids is to shelter them from secular influences.

I know. A lot of hard-core objectivists homeschool their kids and they’re atheists, so… I don’t really know how that stigma’s going to go away.

Kinda like, uh, self-publishing, eh? 😉

By: RJ Keller

RJ Keller — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:35:19 +0000

If I didn’t know it before, I know it now:

I am a Non-Mormon.

1 Orthodoxy, -1 LDS knowledge, -10 Cultural homogeneity

I guess it’s official.

I have to say – in all seriousness – that, as a non-religious mother who homeschools her kids, I really resented the implication in the quiz that the only reason parents homeschool their kids is to shelter them from secular influences. I hear it all the time, and I’m getting pretty tired of it. I homeschool my kids because our local school system fucking sucks…period.