Re: .com/religion
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 20:49 |
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
> If one is 100% Orthodox, it's not possible to be 100% Roman Catholic, or
> vice-versa. Any test that gives this result is based on a
> misunderstanding of one or both of these religions.
Most likely, it is simply a too simplistic test. A test that
only asks about God with answers like "Trinity: Father, Son,
Holy Spirit"; "One God only with no persons: Allah, Yahweh"
"Many Gods"; "etc." will also yield 100%RC / 100%EO. The
problem isn't so much the test itself - but it's scope must
necessarily be simplified. Questions that differentiated the
RC from the EO would all be irrelevant to Muslims, Jews, Pagans,
Agnostics, etc.; and questions that defined Ecclectic Pagans
from Strict Traditionalists or any of the squillions of kinds
of Buddhism and Hinduism would certainly bog the whole thing
down unnecessarily. For the purposes of the selector _as is_
EO = RC.
Padraic.
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