June 2005 Archives
Not being one to buck a trend, I tried out Analogia on Lazlo's recommendation. After discovering that it has a photo of Sean Connery in the database, I submitted a different photo of Sir Connery which Analogia decided looked less like Sean Connery than Steve Martin, Marky Mark and the little troll from those ring movies.
I tried again with a different, less literal, Connery picture. Analogia still didn't see the resemblance this old Scotsman bears to himself.
This brutal pace of near-daily posting has been taking it's toll on me, so I'm turnig to my help-mate for a little help. Sarah will start blogging on this page shortly.
I don't want to break my four day old streak of posting daily, but I also don't have anything witty or insightful for you today. Not even any cute pictures of my girls.
Instead I will refer you back to February '04 and paperhat's inaugural post titled The truth about Mr. Murray and me. It was a pretty funny post. The quality of content here has really gone down hill since then.
There is a pretty good chance that, if you have an opinion on Karl Barth or Sola Scriptura, you already know whether your beliefs line up with the Modern Liberals, the Classic Liberals or the Neo-Orhodoxoners (no relationship to the neo-conservatives or neo-nazis). If you already know that, why would you take a quiz to tell you what you already know?
Taking a certain quiz to determine your theological world view seems all the rage amongst conglomerate bloggers. This is exactly the sort of bandwagon I love, so I jumped right on.
The quiz is non-traditional in that it has no questions -- just 63 non-questions. For each non-question, I ranked my level of agreement. Here are my thoughts on a few of them.
Older churches are unintelligible to modern people
Maybe so, but the real problem is old people trying to understand modern churches. What with the loud music and dancing and all the ruckus the kids are making these days I keep losing count of my rosary beads and having to start over.
Agreement level: 3/5
The person of Christ, rather than the Bible, is the central focus of God's self-revelation
This doesn't seem like an either/or proposition. By my reading, the person of Christ is the central focus of the Bible.
Agreement level: 3/5
There is a significant place for Mary in Christian theology
They're trying to trick me here. They just say "a significant place" without saying what that significant place is. If I agree they'll call me a Catholic mystic who prays only to Mary. If I disagree they'll call me a neo-nazi Catholic hater.
Agreement level: 3/5
Social action is important, but not as important as saving lost souls
This sounds suspiciously similar to the Faith/Works and chicken/egg conundrums, which is to say the question is moot.
Agreement level: 3/5
Christians who claim to know all the answers to everything are wrong to believe this
By defenition, they are wrong to believe this if they don't know all the answers. If they do know all the answers, they are correct in believing this.
Agreement level: 3/5
Karl Barth's theology is hugely important
Who the hell is Karl Barth?
Agreement level: 3/5
