My Foo-bar Spirituality

It said that I might be surprised by the kinship among Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and that between Buddhism and Hinduism. It did not surprise me at all.

But how far away I have come from Christianity did. I was only 34% compatible to this Messianic religion with which I still identify myself (to a much lesser degree than 10 years ago, though). The score was even lower than with Islam and Judaism, which I feel very unfamiliar to.

This is the result of a test about which religion is the most compatible to my spiritual attitude. I took this test this morning just because I received an email from an online personality testing company when I happened to be darn bored by today's translation assignment.

It asked a lot about morality, God and the life after death. I guess the reason why I scored a

very low compatibility to Christianity is that I am not interested in what happens after I die, and that I like to find spirituality in everyday life rather than a supernatural plane. So I scored high with Buddhism; I was 71% compatible to this Eastern religion.

And I scored a percentage point higher with Neo-paganism than Buddhism. I virtually have no idea about Neo-Paganism... (Is it Wicca?) But I understand this because I have developed an extremely personal cult of Artemis/Phoebe in the past few years...

But the highest score I got was with Unitarian Universalism (80% compatible). Well, it did not surprise me because many Jung fans and modern Gnostics are said to be comfortable with UU.

Or I perhaps scored highest with UU because my test result was so foo-bar (f--ked up beyond any recognition) that any other religion could not be recommended to me than the UU mixture of everything...

But I feel now I know one of the reasons why I've had severe depression... I simply did not know

myself. How can a sex maniac like me be truly happy with Jehovah? Well, I might behave but it could only be out of fear of punishment.

But Jesus is already too familiar for me to ignore. I guess my foo-bar spirit is the most compatible to A Course In Miracles (ACIM), the Zen that Gnostic-like Jesus spoke to an American psychologist in 1970s...

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Tags: Personality test, Zen, Unitarian Universalism, ACIM