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You scored as Fundamentalist. Fundamentalism represents a movement in opposition to Modernism, stressing the highest importance on foundational religious tradition. Science has brought on corruption of society. God is real and is watching. Scripture leaves little room for interpretation; man is God’s creation. About a quarter of the population in the U.S. is classified as Fundamentalist.
What is Your World View? (updated) |
I’m a Fundamentalist! Who’da thunk it? Actually, given the nature of the questions, I’m not surprised. The creators of the quiz seem to consider a belief in absolute, objective truths to be the definition of Fundamentalism. If that is the case, my name is Michelle and I’m a Catholic Fundamentalist. There. It’s finally out in the open now.
(Nod to Mark Mossa, S.J., for the link.)
Hello, my name is Steve (everybody says ‘Hi Steve’), and I am a Catholic Fundamentalist.
Seriously, most of the questions were so vague as too be meaningless. What the heck does….
If given free range, humans will find their own place in the universe.
…mean?
I don’t think the writers of the quiz have a clue as to how to discern different religous attitudes based on the questions they pose.
And to think I didn’t have a creative bone in my body.
Fundamentalist
69%
Cultural Creative
69%
Existentialist
38%
Idealist
38%
Romanticist
38%
Postmodernist
19%
Modernist
6%
Materialist
6%
Yeah some of the questions were weird — didn’t have a clue what they were going for, so I selected the middle response. And I am a Fundamentalist (88%), too, with Cultural Creative coming in second.
‘thann
I’m a cultural creative.
Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.
If I’m not religious, what do I have pictures of the last two Popes hanging on my wall?
hmmmmmmmm…
…ponders the meaning of life.
well, it’s no big suprise that I’m a Romanticist! (69%) But some of those questions were utterly incomprehensible to me.
I thought the ‘free range’ question was about the factory farming of eggs…had to read it through thrice to understand it!
Don’t like these questionnaries, I always feel dumb and less than I ought to be upon their completion and subsequent results.
God Bless.
The definition of fundamentalist provided is totally bogus. The term fundamentalists dates back to the early 20th century and specifically a set of books called ‘The Fundamentals’. These books listed 5 fundamentals, all of which aren’t that unique to Christianity besides the first, the literalist (word for word) inerrancy of scripture. It is this principle, basically that there is no symbolism or metaphor in scripture, that everything, every word is literally accurate, that is the defining characteristic of fundamentalism.
Of course the media is completely ignorant of this and are doing a very effective job of re-defining the term to mean basically orthodox.
Right, Ken. The MSM have lumped together the orthodox of all faiths into one group called “fundamentalist”. The implication is that fundamentalism is dangerous, so Billy Graham, the Pope and the Islamofascists are all looked at with equal suspicion. This is why, when Americans of faith even begin to assert themselves politically, we hear terms being thrown around like the “American Taliban”.
STEVE’S RIGHT: A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS WERE MEANINGLESS. I SCORED 63% “CULTURAL CREATIVE”, WHO IS SPIRITUAL, BUT SHIES AWAY FROM ORGANIZED RELIGION. I E-MAILED THEM THAT I AM A PRACTICING, BELIEVING, ORTHODOX CATHOLIC WHO BELIEVES EVERYTHING THE CHURCH TEACHES, AND THAT I QUESTION THEIR COMPETENCE.
Missed me by a mile. I am not a cultural creative. In fact I am a boring obedient orthodox catholic who would flush the toilet with my head in it if the church told me to!
Weird test, they don’t really know anything.
If people beleive there is no truth, the test should end there. How do you trust someone who states he can never speak the truth? Maybe that’s a lie!
“Mankind is condemned to be free. (there is no outside control)” does that mean free will? No God? What does this mean? Without the () I would have agreed, but it made it confusing.
I ended up with the very odd:
Cultural Creative 75%
Existentialist 56%
Fundamentalist 56%
Romanticist 44%
Idealist 25%
Postmodernist 19%
Modernist 6%
Materialist 0%
So, I am a Creative Existential Fundamentalist. Not that it makes any sense.
Well, Well.
I am also Cultural Creative.
So, Jason,Paednoch,BILL912 and JohnH
We could all start our own religion seeing as we are not supposed to be hooked into any religious grouping, necessarily.
And Paednoch, you sound like Gerard Majella (Saint, that is)
I think “condemned to be free” is an Existential principle–the terrible freedom of man in a universe without norms or rules for how to live, AFAIK.
Cultural Creative.
The questions were quite equivocal in syntax, so I think the test is bogus on that score alone before getting into substance!
” Mankind is condemned to be free. (there is no outside control)”
Which one am I supposed to agree or disagree with?
There is no way that this is human speak:
“Interpretation is an intrinsic feature of the fabric of the universe.”
Gak.
Cultural Creative 69%
Fundamentalist 63%
Romanticist 50%
Postmodernist 38%
Idealist 25%
Existentialist 13%
Materialist 6%
Modernist 0%
Is this a good thing?
I got Romaticist. Actually, Romanticist (88%) and Fundamentalist (88%) but the tie-breaking statement I chose made me a Romanticist. I agree that the definition of “fundamentalist” here is flawed. And the “cultural creative” tag could mean anything. Or is it just a sophisticated way to say “hippy”?
I managed to get Cultural Creative, also. I haven’t figured that out yet, because I, too, am an orthodox Catholic, but fled from the Southern Baptists
Hmm, I’m a “Cultural Creative 69%” too, seems like quite a few readers of a Catholic blog are scored as “cultural creative.”
The author of the quiz also scored a “cultural creative” according to: http://www.geocities.com/worldviewquiz/
The author’s is a college student, previously an astrophysics major, who now studies eastern religions:
I am a full time student at a university who was originally an astrophysics major but switched to the study of eastern religion. It was a big switch, but I just found eastern philosophy more intetresting. I plan on writing, researching, and teaching at the university level at some point down the line. I made this quiz after taking a class on the interrelationship between religion, science, and spirituality because it seemed like a neat idea. If you are curious, I scored as a Cultural Creative.
What a dumb quiz.
Shows author bias. I’m a culture creative too yet I think he’d call me a fundamentalist.