We ask, then, for peace for the gods of our fathers and of our country. It is just that all worship should be considered as one. We look on the same stars, the sky is common, the same world surrounds us. What difference does it make by what pains each seeks the truth? We cannot attain to so great a secret by one road.
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (340–402)

You need not think alike to love alike.
Dávid Ferenc (1510-1579)

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth. Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Living of These Days, 1956

The fugitive kind are those who continue to ask the unanswered questions that haunt the hearts of people as opposed to those who accept prescribed answers, which aren't really answers at all.
Tennessee Williams

La vie est la fleur dont l'amour est le miel. (Life is the flower of which love is the honey.)
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

what kind of Pagan?

This quiz was heavily biased towards reconstructionists and polytheists, and I disliked the use of the term "faith"... but it's only a bit of fun, and the characterisation of me as a Eastern Pagan is fairly accurate:

What kind of Pagan are you?
You scored as an Eastern Pagan
Eastern Pagans come in two breeds; the Buddhist-Pagan, who follows the Buddhist belief of the "middle way" and the Hindu-Pagan, who leans to the Hindu Pantheon of gods. Thoughtful, calm, insightful individuals are often drawn to Eastern mythology and thought. Enlightenment is more than a theory; it's a state of mind to aspire to, and there are certain key elements that you've found in the Eastern paths that offer to help you on the journey. Those who seek these paths are often the teachers, the peacemakers and the intellectuals of our world.
Eastern Pagan

90%
Egyptian Pantheon Pagan

75%
Eclectic Pagan

70%
Roman Pantheon Pagan

65%
Zoroastrian Pagan

55%
Sumerian, Babylonian, and Mesopotamian Pagans

50%
Shamanic Pagan

45%
Celtic Pantheon Pagan

45%
Greek Pantheon Pagan

45%
Kabbalistic Pagan

40%
Norse Pantheon Pagan (Asatru)

40%
Catholic (Pagan?)

25%

2 comments:

solitary said...

It is your feelings that matter...

Here's a disturbing article on the smuggling of Buddhist relics in India I came across while I was googling.
Might interest you.
http://buroangla.blogspot.com/2008/07/carry-away-relics.html

Regina Clare Jane said...

Hm... I decided to try this quiz even though I am not a pagan- at least I don't think I am! I came out a Catholic Pagan followed closely by Kabbalistic pagan- which makes sense, of course. I grew up Catholic but have rejected the hierarchical apsect of the religion but still use some of the rituals and I have to say, I do cling to the "goddess saints" like Clare and Therese and the Virgin Mary. Such strong and powerful women...
Very interesting, Yvonne!