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Christianity Test

Are You Inclined to be a Christian?

Contents Updated: Friday, July 30, 1999

A simple psychological test in the form of a quiz to test your religiosity, or your suitability as a Christian or for conversion to Christianity. Christians can use it for recruiting. When you finish the test, the results appear in the questions window. Right click and drag in it to highlight the result, and copy it into memory to paste wherever you wish.

Sample Result

CHRISTIAN INCLINATIONS RESULT

You are judged on conservatism, acceptance, compassion, confidence and intolerance.

The Churches are hugely conservative basing themselves on unchanging creeds and holy writings that are considered the word of God himself and so cannot be changed. Your percent conservatism is 16. The higher your conservatism, the better the church likes you.

The higher your score (32) on acceptance of Christian values, the more the Churches like you because you are already indoctrinated with their conventions.

Compassion (78) is not only a Christian quality though Christians like to think it is. Many Christians today have nominally adopted the views of civilised society rather than the ideas propagated in their barbaric holy books, so many people who are simply civilised and not particularly Christian might get a high score here.

Your intolerance score is 30. More than 20 percent is intolerant. Christianity historically is an intolerant belief, though the progress of civilisation has forced it to adopt a veneer of tolerance. Today only a minority of people except in some extreme communities such as members of fundamentalist Christian Churches are likely to get high intolerance scores.

Confidence (33) is not necessarily a Christian quality but it often is because Christians have the idea that God informs them. Ordinary folk, lacking the guidance of God, are cautious rather than confident in what they say and do.

You can download (10 KB download) this applet right here in zip format. Zipped together as ChristBent.zip are an HTML file like this one (it probably is this one!) and the java applet class file, CBQuestioner.class. Just put the two in the same folder and it should work on a PC.

Hey! Why not make a quiz sheet of the questions, ask your friends, parents, teachers or ministers to tick answers or you note them, then analyse their answers privately using the applet to find out whether they are good Christians? Good, eh!

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Before you go, think about this…

One Sunday morning, a Christian father, anxious to test his son’s upbringing, gave his boy a dime and a penny, and said, “You may put whichever of the two coins you choose into the collection plate.” After the service, he could not control his curiosity as to the result for long and called the boy to him. To his regret and disappointment, the boy admitted that he had put the penny in the collection and kept the dime. “But why?” asked tbe father, thinking of the high principles he had tried to instil into his son. “Because”, the boy replied, “the minister says ‘the Lord loveth the cheerful giver’.”