Via Robin, who got it from the John Byrne message board, it's the Belief-O-Matic™! "Even if YOU don't know what faith you are, Belief-O-Matic™ knows. Answer 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more, and Belief-O-Matic™ will tell you what religion (if any) you practice...or ought to consider practicing." Based on our responses, Rob and I were both prescribed Unitarian Universalism.
Rob also unknowingly presents today's Poetry Corner (yes, that's him in the corner, losing his religion!), with the following couplet composed whilst trying to calm me down as we were watching the Tournament of Roses Parade. I got slightly ill, as I usually do, at all the overt jingoism and floats saturated with American flags and drooling over military plane fly-bys, and Robin observed this about patriotism:
It's not what you show, or the flag that you wave,Pretty good for someone who wasn't even trying to rhyme. :) And yeah, it kind of sums up what I think a patriot should be, even more than what the Belief-O-Matic™ thinks my religion should be. A lot of bloggers are fond of saying of the current administration, "Watch what they do, not what they say." Neither patriotism nor religion is about what one professes, particularly if you proclaim boastfully or pridefully (and most especially if you have a very superficial view of either and then go about insulting people who choose to seek deeper meaning). They're about what kind of person you are, how striving for truth in your actions and deeds demonstrates your love for your god or country. The louder someone crows about how their country or their god is The Best That Is And Ever Was, the more I personally think they're talking out of their ass.
It's more what you do, and in how you behave.
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