My Liberal Identity:
You are a Peace Patroller, also known as an anti-war liberal or neo-hippie. You believe in putting an end to American imperial conquest, stopping wars that have already been lost, and supporting our troops by bringing them home.
Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com
Thanks to David Charles Walker at On The Beach for the link to the quiz.
I saw it over at Pseudopiskie's back in Aug and put my results here.
ReplyDeleteSomehow I'm not surprised at your result on this one!
I am one of the "Reality-Based Intellectualists, also known as the liberal elite—are proud members of what’s known as the reality-based community, where science, reason, and non-Jesus-based thought reign supreme."
ReplyDeleteThe description made me sad. At least in my best moments, Jesus inspires me to really be "reality-based" and to find the sacred in the world around me and in all the arts and sciences which help us to explore that world. It's so sad that fundamentalist thinking has so warped the public perception of Christianity that somebody who chose to take Darwin on the spaceship would be seen as hostile to believing.
Greetings Grandmere! I took this a couple of weeks back. I too am a peace patroller, just like you!
ReplyDeleteImagine that. Dennis and John, you are heathens! Who knew?
ReplyDeleteIf it was this easy to psyche someone out, we wouldn't need psychologists and psychiatrists, and, Dennis, you'd be wasting your time with all that schooling.
John, I hope Jesus inspires me to be somewhat reality-based, too.
They're just a bit of fantasy fun, and I've been busy with church and with my grandchildren, and I wanted to put something up.
Fran, it's good to be in the same company with you.
I scored the same.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the other types are?
Kirstin, that makes three. We can form a club. What shall we call it? I know. The Peace Patrollers!
ReplyDeleteI'm a working class warrior or something like that. I guess because corporate greed creeps me out most of all.
ReplyDeleteI knew that Dennis was a heathen, Grandmère. Please feel free to check with me on these things.
ReplyDeleteMy results: You are an Eco-Avenger, also known as an environmentalist or tree hugger. You believe in saving the planet from the clutches of air-fouling, oil-drilling, earth-raping conservative fossil fools.
Truth be told, however, I find myself nearly apolitical at this point in my life. Everybody seems to be against something, or a lot of things, and for few. Where do i go to find the next President of the US who really doesn't want to be the President?
On a lighter note, for the first time in 48 years, I served as an acolyte. My mom asked me if acolyting was for kids, but I guess I'm an Episcopal baby, so it's all good.
Diane, with some of the questions it was hard for me to choose an answer. I hate the corporate greed, too.
ReplyDeleteKJ, you're the tree-hugger. I'm not surprised.
Here's a virtual pat on the head for being a good little acolyte. Pat, pat. I take it that you didn't drop anything or trip and fall. Good for you.
I would have trooped over to Seattle to see KJ as an acolyte!
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely right about these quizes, but sometimes they are fun.
KJ, I do need to get over there and see the Keiskamma altarpiece before it moves on.
ReplyDeleteWhen are you acolyting again?
So, Mimi, where do they get off calling you a _neo_ hippy? We're both old enough to be the real kind!
ReplyDeleteGrandmere,
ReplyDeleteI'm one of those reality-based-non-Jesus ones too! And I also find it disturbing. I mean, I know I'm a heretic, but a heathen???
Mimi, I know this is completely off topic, but I have to put it somewhere and I think you will appreciate it!
ReplyDeleteToday, I was filling my husband(the practicing agnostic) in on the two latest letters...You know, ++ Katharine's and +Bop Pittsburgh's...I quoted +Bop's quote...Here I stand, blah, blah, blah and Tom said, "Oh yeah, Martin Luther. The PB should write back and say, "Tutti Frutti, Ah Rutti...Little Richard!" I thought that was about the best reaction I've heard!
Oh, BTW. This is how I scored....the last sentence really applies.....
ReplyDeleteYou are a New Left Hipster, also known as a MoveOn.org liberal, a Netroots activist, or a Daily Show fanatic. You believe that if we really want to defend American values, conservatives must be exposed, mocked, and assailed for every fanatical, puritanical, warmongering, Constitution-shredding ideal for which they stand.
Susan, absolutely. I could be the real thing. Maybe the folks who make up the quizzes think only the young are foolish enough to take them.
ReplyDeleteYour husband's response is priceless. He is a wise man. Little Richard has the WORD.
Emmy, welcome. Heathen is perhaps a bit harsh. Can we agree on heretic? BTW, I'm one of those, too. Thanks for visiting.
Back to you, Susan. You're a neo-left hipster? Did you used to be right?
Grandmère, I am a Social Justice Crusader. I guess I worked too many years with a population on the lower socio-economic scale in this country and saw just how tough their lives were. For the most part these were decent, hard-working individuals, but there were so many systems in place that thwarted most of their efforts at breaking out of the poverty cycle. At times it could be heartbreaking to watch.
ReplyDeleteBoocat, that's quite a good thing to be. I think we'd all like to be a little of all of the possibilities mentioned so far.
ReplyDeleteHey Dennis,
ReplyDeleteThe Keiskamma altarpiece will be at St. Mark's through November. I'll be acolyting, or as I like to call it, "flaming for Jesus," on the 25th.
Advent is always beautiful at St. Mark's, and you might want to consider the "Advent Processions and O-Antiphons" service on the evening of the 2nd.
Grandmère, thank you for the virtual pats. No, I did not trip or knock anything over, but did spill a little bit of wax. Baptism at the Cathedral is a big, wet affair, so immediately following that, I was sopping up the water with towels, so everyone could see what a nice boy I am.
KJ, acolyting gives you the perfect stage to practice your niceness so everyone can see. Did the congregation applaud your clean-up? If not, they should have.
ReplyDeleteI tried to take the quiz, but gave up half way. It was a bit tough for a non-American! It should be titled 'What Kind of American Liberal Are You?'
ReplyDeleteI'm a Peace Patroller, too. It's nice to be in your company.
ReplyDeleteTim, you're probably right. It's an American quiz. We could make you an honorary member of the Peace Patrollers, and - just think! - so far you're the only man.
ReplyDeleteJan, welcome to the club.
Grandmère,
ReplyDeleteWell, I was so disturbed by the "non-Jesus-based thought" stuff that I found another quiz to help me figure out what it means to be a Christian with non-Jesus-based thought. I think there is a Law of Cyberspace that says you can use one online quiz to define and explain another. It turns out I'm a Unitarian Universalist Liberal Quaker Neo-Pagan New Age Secular Humanist Mainline Liberal Christian Protestant (etc.). I think they could have just said "heretic" and saved a lot of typing.
If anyone else wants to try...
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html
Emmy, I did the whole quiz at Beliefnet, and could not get the results. Either Blogger or my computer is acting up. All that work for nothing.
ReplyDeleteI guess that heretic will do for the short form of whatever you are.
I'm sorry Grandmere. It is a lot of work! Perhaps you were just too wonderful and the quiz could not it!
ReplyDeleteOh, thank you, Emmy, but I don't think so.
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