Fundamentalist Belief Inventory Quiz

[Redalgo]

"You scored 1 out of 40," which accurately put me into the atheists and agnostics category.

The one point I got would almost certainly for responding that alcohol consumption is sinful.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

"You scored 1 out of 40," which accurately put me into the atheists and agnostics category.

The one point I got would almost certainly for responding that alcohol consumption is sinful.

You're a teetotaler?

[PPT Spiral]

4 out of 40. A good share of these options seemed loaded to me so I wouldn't call it the most accurate test for gauging someone's beliefs, although I guess I had fun doing it.

[Redalgo]

You're a teetotaler?

I am, though I do not judge others harshly for drinking in moderation so long as nobody is harmed.

[TNF]

Atheist/agnostic

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I got an 8 - The majority of college students in the United States.

[SWE]

I got a 0

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

31/40. I agree with JBrase that the test was poorly worded.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

31/40. I agree with JBrase that the test was poorly worded.

That still seems high for you, Sanchez, even though I'm not entirely familiar with your theological views.  Are you still a creationist?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

31/40. I agree with JBrase that the test was poorly worded.

That still seems high for you, Sanchez, even though I'm not entirely familiar with your theological views.  Are you still a creationist?

Of course. You speak as if creationism was some fringe position that would make my score higher than usual, when it is pretty widely accepted by Christian's across the nation in some form or another. I am not a young Earth creationist, though.

I'm a liberal Baptist (though I am thinking of joining the United Church of Christ despite their liberal theological views since the Baptist Church I attend in an hour and a half away). My views are very similar to JBrase's, actually.

A good example of where my theological views diverge from both Unitarians and Baptists is the Heaven/Hell debate. I cannot believe in a god who casts people into hell for never hearing of him, and I believe good people can go to Heaven, I also believe that a literal hell exists for those who choose not to believe (or simply choose not to care), though I don’t view their damnation as God turning away from them as much as I do them refusing to turn away from sin.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

31/40. I agree with JBrase that the test was poorly worded.

That still seems high for you, Sanchez, even though I'm not entirely familiar with your theological views.  Are you still a creationist?

Of course. You speak as if creationism was some fringe position that would make my score higher than usual, when it is pretty widely accepted by Christian's across the nation in some form or another. I am not a young Earth creationist, though.

I'm a liberal Baptist (though I am thinking of joining the United Church of Christ despite their liberal theological views since the Baptist Church I attend in an hour and a half away). My views are very similar to JBrase's, actually.

Sounds like you'd be best in the Disciples of Christ.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

31/40. I agree with JBrase that the test was poorly worded.

That still seems high for you, Sanchez, even though I'm not entirely familiar with your theological views.  Are you still a creationist?

Of course. You speak as if creationism was some fringe position that would make my score higher than usual, when it is pretty widely accepted by Christian's across the nation in some form or another. I am not a young Earth creationist, though.

I'm a liberal Baptist (though I am thinking of joining the United Church of Christ despite their liberal theological views since the Baptist Church I attend in an hour and a half away). My views are very similar to JBrase's, actually.

Well, I know it's not a fringe position, especially among Baptists, though it is a view I would characterize as being more fundamentalist than conservative.  That's not to say you can't be a creationist and still have moderate or liberal views on theology and social issues, of course.

As a UCCer myself, I would certainly never recommend against it to anyone, but you should know that it is probably the most liberal out of all the Protestant denominations, perhaps second only to the Unitarian Universalists (which is not an inherently Christian church, even).  The UCC doesn't really endorse an evolutionist or a creationist view of the universe, but its understanding of how the Gospel can be interpreted is very different from that of many other churches.  It's also unabashedly active in the political scene (at least the national church is) and pro-gay rights, which I know you are as well.  I guess I would characterize it as big tent on theological issues, progressive on political ones.  (Of course, it's more apt to endorse specific causes rather than political parties... which I think is the way to go.)

Sorry for going on a tangent there.  Those are just things you should keep in mind if you want to join the UCC, which I've been with for quite some time now.

EDIT: Ah, BRTD has a point.  The Disciples of Christ are basically "theologically progressive Baptists," as one of my pastors once put it.  You would fit in there, too.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

31/40. I agree with JBrase that the test was poorly worded.

That still seems high for you, Sanchez, even though I'm not entirely familiar with your theological views.  Are you still a creationist?

Of course. You speak as if creationism was some fringe position that would make my score higher than usual, when it is pretty widely accepted by Christian's across the nation in some form or another. I am not a young Earth creationist, though.

I'm a liberal Baptist (though I am thinking of joining the United Church of Christ despite their liberal theological views since the Baptist Church I attend in an hour and a half away). My views are very similar to JBrase's, actually.

Well, I know it's not a fringe position, especially among Baptists, though it is a view I would characterize as being more fundamentalist than conservative.  That's not to say you can't be a creationist and still have moderate or liberal views on theology and social issues, of course.

As a UCCer myself, I would certainly never recommend against it to anyone, but you should know that it is probably the most liberal out of all the Protestant denominations, perhaps second only to the Unitarian Universalists (which is not an inherently Christian church, even).  The UCC doesn't really endorse an evolutionist or a creationist view of the universe, but its understanding of how the Gospel can be interpreted is very different from that of many other churches.  It's also unabashedly active in the political scene (at least the national church is) and pro-gay rights, which I know you are as well.  I guess I would characterize it as big tent on theological issues, progressive on political ones.  (Of course, it's more apt to endorse specific causes rather than political parties... which I think is the way to go.)

Sorry for going on a tangent there.  Those are just things you should keep in mind if you want to join the UCC, which I've been with for quite some time now.

EDIT: Ah, BRTD has a point.  The Disciples of Christ are basically "theologically progressive Baptists," as one of my pastors once put it.  You would fit in there, too.

I appreciate the advice . I found a Disciples of Christ Church not too far away from me (though it does involve the chaotic drive down I-95 through West Palm ) that seems to fit my preferred size of a church. I'll definitely look into it. The only disagreement I seem to have with them is communion, and that really is a minor issue in the greater order of things.

[tik 🪀✨]

I answered as though I were still a Christian. I believed myself at the time to be a more progressive believer; nevertheless I scored 22 out of 40. I suppose compared to my peers I was a heretic, still - I didn't believe in creationism (although I did for a while when I was younger), thought it was silly that the Bible was the only divinely inspired text or that there weren't contradictions within itself. Still, that coupled with some other dramatic life experiences laid the foundations for my exodus. Maybe my fundie friends were justified in rejecting my views.

[pbrower2a]

4. There's something out there, but the Bible doesn't offer it.

[Meursault]

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The only question on which I answered as a 'fundamentalist' was six, "(h)umans are by nature sinners, and God is under no obligation to save them." But this doesn't mean I regard the very idea of 'sin' as describing something real; when analyzed from an atheistic perspective, it seems to say nothing more than "do you think people are 'bad' or 'good' by nature?". How are you meant to answer that if you don't think there's a 'human nature'?

I tend to think that most actions are 'negative', but this is not a moral judgment, nor does it suggest I view humans as having a 'nature', whether we want to describe that nature in the religious terminology of sin and salvation or the psychologistic vocabulary of Freud.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I scored 20, but the test is horribly designed.

[Cranberry]

1 - Atheist/Agnostic

[Mordecai]

Scored a perfect 0 and it nailed me as an atheist. There were a lot of statements that I didn't agree with so I went with the one I most agreed with.

[Goldwater]

I'm not sure how well this quiz applies to someone who isn't religious, but I got a 4 which apparently puts me in the same range as most collage students.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I got 31/40, which supposedly makes me a "conservative Christian."  There were some questions I had some trouble with, though, because neither of the answers fit my beliefs well.

[Repub242]

I got 31, conservative christian.

[The Dowager Mod]

I got "burn the witch".

 

[anvi]

I got 3, but only because several of the questions represented artificial opposites.  Anyway, I was interested to learn that believing works contribute to salvation is anti-fundamentalist, and especially that psychiatry and psychology were especially contemptible things for fundamentalists. 

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Anyway, I was interested to learn that believing works contribute to salvation is anti-fundamentalist

I'm surprise to hear you learned that from the quiz since that works don't contribute to salvation is a pretty basic component of Protestant—let alone fundamentalist—theology.  Of course, some people seem to miss the point that while faith alone is sufficient for salvation, faith will lead one to do good works in accordance with one's ability.