Okay, I’m a United Methodist. I have been for about 8 years now. I was raised as a Roman Catholic, though, and I didn’t leave the Catholic Church because of strong theological or philosophical differences. My husband was raised as a United Methodist, and has never been comfortable in a Catholic Mass, so when we finally decided we wanted to attend church together, I agreed to try the Methodist church.
The one in our area at the time (United Methodist Church of Rancho Cordova, near Sacramento), was awesome. They had a woman pastor (nonexistent in the Catholic church). She left soon after we started attending, but the next pastor was a woman also, and became a good friend. We formally joined the church. I still missed things about the Catholic church — the familiar hymns and rituals and the weekly Communion especially, but eventually the Methodist traditions became familiar as well.
Today, I took a quiz that I found through this blog entry, which was in my Tag Surfer today. It measures something called your “theological worldview.” I’m not sure how to define that. I was surprised, however, to find that I still scored primarily as a Roman Catholic! My second worldview is Emergent/Postmodern, which is more where I see myself these days — and really, the two go together a bit, because one characteristic of emergent/postmoderns is that they like getting back to the ancient rituals of the church.
My third worldview is Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan, which is the United Methodist part of my background. Apparently, however, the faith I was raised in still has a huge impact on my theology and practice.
The full results are below, along with a picture representing Roman Catholicism. Very formal. My husband, who scored fully emergent/postmodern, got a picture of Brian McLaren.
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You scored as Roman CatholicYou are Roman Catholic. Church tradition and ecclesial authority are hugely important, and the most important part of worship for you is mass. As the Mother of God, Mary is important in your theology, and as the communion of saints includes the living and the dead, you can also ask the saints to intercede for you.
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December 27, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Wanda Rizzuto
I wonder if I’m still Catholic?
Didn’t you post something similar elsewhere once?
December 27, 2007 at 2:28 pm
kmcdade
Yes, that was the Belief-O-Matic, which told you which denomination you fit into — this one is a little broader.
December 27, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Bobby Goat GRUFF!
I thought it looked like a fun quiz. I was rather hoping I’d turn out to be Catholic but I couldn’t answer most of the questions. Many of them are worded in such a way that some form of theism is presumed. Oh well.
December 27, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Danny
Yes. Studies show that we usually form most of our opinions by age 25. Whether I like it or not, I was raised in the EV Free tradition, and many of their beliefs still impact me greatly (I have scraped some).
December 28, 2007 at 2:31 am
Corina
I scored 89% Emergent/Postmodernism and my second and third places were tied at 68%, Roman Catholic and Classical Liberal. I haven’t considered myself a Catholic since I was about 7 years old, in another lifetime. So I guess it’s true that we form our opinions at a very, very young age.
Curiously, I had occasion to attend the ordination of a family friend as a Catholic Bishop in November of 2004. I hadn’t been in a Catholic Church in over 40 years but the words to the prayers and the songs came right back to me and I was able to follow the four hour mass without much trouble at all.
December 28, 2007 at 6:08 am
Ina
I’m not much of anything but a believer, so I’ll come back later after I’ve had time to take the quiz. It will be interesting to see where it puts someone like myself.
December 28, 2007 at 10:40 am
pandemonic
I believe, but I believe I’m a fallen Catholic.
December 29, 2007 at 10:25 pm
thirdculturemom
Of course you are. Remember, the mark of baptism is indelible.
Okay, that’s not what you asked. In fact, it is interesting, but these quizzes are rarely calibrated properly, and they probably had to make some allowances for Catholics giving answers that are not doctrinally correct, because, well, Catholics tend to do that….
I had the same problem with the test as BGG, but I answered those questions anyway, choosing the middle answer sometimes, and disagree at other times (when I didn’t think that would up my fundamentalist score). I’d be Emergent Postmodern, apparently, if I were anything, followed by Modern Liberal. I think if I had taken the test a few years ago, when I was still a believer of sorts, I would have gotten something similar.
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