Not entirely accurate

[tephra]

You fit in with: Atheism Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people. 40% scientific. 60% reason-oriented.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

There's a bias in this one, everything is either/or and never both. Technical field OR arts. Left brain rational OR right brain creative. At least it stuck me on the edge of atheist and not in the middle where I definitely don't belong. Personally I would have put myself in the "Humanist" range.

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[athelind.livejournal.com]

That's why I didn't finish it.

If it had been a "Strongly Agree/Strongly Disagree" style quiz, it would have been another matter. But they asked a number of yes/no questions that I COULD NOT ANSWER.

I'd put myself in the "Agnostic" zone, btw.

I'm surprised that "Scientology" is on the graph. I didn't see any questions like "I think the idea that all human misery is because the Evil Space Tyrant stacked billions of people in volcanoes and nuked them is entirely reasonable."

[tephra]

I got irritated at the creative=spiritual, technical=!spiritual thing. I know a heck of a lot of geeks that are spiritual.

I think I'm wandering around the upper portion of Humanist. I'm somewhat hypocritical in matters of faith, if I've experienced it myself I'm more likely to believe others have but if I haven't I tend to be a bit more skeptical. Generally it doesn't matter since I really don't much care what people believe so long as it doesn't infringe on my rights. I don't need people to validate my beliefs and I don't much like having other people expecting me to validate theirs.

On more than one occasion I've had people get all offended because I won't debate faith with them. I don't get it. My disinterest in discussions of faith have nothing to do with being insecure in my own beliefs, or being some sort of "pagan apologist" hiding in a rabbit hole to avoid offense (weirdness like that is why I don't hang out in pagan lists/groups/communities now). I'm comfortable with my beliefs. I don't feel a need to discuss or defend them, and generally feel that people need to validate/reconcile/whatever for themselves.

Wow, that was kind of rant-y now wasn't it?