Minggu, 22 Maret 2009

spiritualism and religiousity

This entry is not intended to offend anyone. Just writings about myself and my spirituality At first I read his blog just because I'm curious about if he gay or not.... heheheh mau tauuuuuu ajah

yup, oneday he told me that he won't get married... but he never tell me the spesific reason.
Well, I wont talk about it here, right now.

What captured me from his blog is lots of spirituality entry that he writes. Although it's very hard to read his blog .. (man, bahasannya berat banget), I found some are interesting. And one of most interesting for me is this quiz that he took from a website.

I took the quiz... and voila!

I'm a 100% to Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants.

The fun is, you get 27 list of the closes beliefs. The other rank are: I'm a 94% Orthodox Quacker (I don't know what is this), 85% Unitarian Universalism (just hear it), 75% Roman Catholic, 69% Reform Judaism, 65% Orthodox Judaism, and only 62% Islam.

So, because I'm not sure about the test, I click on the link (every results has its own link for description).

After read some of the beliefs, based on the explanation about the beliefs, I think I'm spiritually agree with Reform Judaism.... which generally focuses on living a virtuous life, rather than working toward reward after death.

And also agree abut its idea of sin,
No original sin. Most often, Satan is interpreted symbolically to represent selfish desires that are inherent within all. God gave people free will, and people are responsible for their actions.

salvation,
The main emphasis is on living the kind of life that God commands, which will surely be rewarded if there is an afterlife. Most believe God is forgiving of all; there is no hell to which some are condemned. Salvation is achieved through faith and prayer to God, good works, concern for the earth and humanity, and behavior that does no harm to others. The extent to which one follows Jewish Law is an individual decision.

undeserved suffering,
God gave humans free will to feel pleasure and pain, and his purpose in allowing deep suffering of the innocent must be good even if mysterious. It is generally believed that God suffers along with the sufferer. More important than knowing why God allows suffering is to work to help those in need.

and some contemporary issues like abortion.

.....so how about my religion?

mmmm... I think I'll stick with the present one :)