Posted by:
intellectualfeminist
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Date: January 17, 2012 03:42PM
I can't post on your original thread because it's closed. I know you were upset because you took the quiz and are still 100% Mormon. But to quote a popular campaign: IT GETS BETTER.
I first took that quiz when I was disaffected and on my way out. Even then, Mormonism wasn't at the top of my belief matches, but it was fairly high up there. Mainstream liberal Protestant was my highest match at the time, if I remember correctly.
But time went on, and something happened. I began to find my own way, my own beliefs, my own truths. In short......I began to find myself. And as I did, taking the same quiz again many months later revealed some rather different results. I think over the past few years I've taken the quiz maybe three times, once seriously, and twice just to see how things had changed.
I've gone from being a "Mainstream Liberal Protestant" to being a Liberal Quaker at the top, along with Unitarian, Natural/new-agy (I've always been a nature girl!), liberal Protestant (again) and something else a bit farther down that was kind of unexpected, Reform Jewish, or some eastern philosophy......can't recall off the top of my head anymore.
The one religion I'm still nominally affiliated with, Catholicism, is about smack dab in the middle. Not a great match, but not the worst one either.
What's changed the most are the more rigid, orthodox beliefs that I used to accept as being simply a part of my personal spiritual make-up and belief system. Some of my worst religious match-ups now, at the bottom of the list:
Jehovah's Witness
Mormonism
Scientology
Seventh Day Adventist
I guess what I most wanted to say is, I know it's a terribly confusing, frustrating time. I too left the Mormon church, and I had to 'rebuild' myself like most of us here. It does come, with time and perspective. Take that test in about another year, angelina5, and you might be pleasantly surprised by the results ;)