Belief-o-matic

[carolinayellowdog]

16. Liberal Quakerism is wonderful, but beleagured

since so many of us score high on that measure, a comment. I have a couple of centuries of Quaker ancestry and have always been drawn to that tradition. The Greensboro metro area has a higher concentration of Friends meetings than any other part of the US, I read somewhere, and it's not far away. But theologically and politically, the entire tradition has been moving rightwards for generations, embracing evangelical beliefs, hiring ministers, losing its distinctiveness. There is a small rural meeting I've attended once where some friends are members, and its very progressive. But they are now independent of all larger (yearly) meetings because the mainstream kept moving in a conservative direction. So I estimate that the conservative Friends outnumber the liberal ones 2-1.
Maybe PA is not like NC in this shift.

Re the test questions, I notice that a couple of you have high scores for secular humanism AND for atheism, whereas mine are quite different. Makes me wonder which questions feed into which categories; would speculate that pluralism and relativism are characteristics of secular humanists but not atheists.