What I find interesting isn't so much what is a part of a religion, but what the practioners of a religions choose to emphasize. Abraham's story is technically a part of Jewdism, as well as every sec of Christianity, but it is not necessarily central to each of them. For instance the whole fire and brimstone preaching of Catholisism about heavan and hell is very common. While in Jewdism you will hardly ever hear a mention of Heavan and Hell. Yet catholics will draw on the Torah (Old Testement) for explanations of why people go to Hell etc.. I think people don't often realize how much of thier central religious beliefs are not determined by the texts of thier religion, but by the people who run thier religious establishments.SophiaStafford wrote:Far more interesting is the Jesus, say, of the Gospels, where dying was all part of the plan. To me, it's no wonder so many former catholic schoolchildren wind up on one side of the whip or the other. The whole religion screams BDSM-- a god who demands a man sacrifice his only son (although he did call it off at the last second).
Sophia
just my 2 cents on an interesting topic...as to the test when you say meaningful results are you looking to classify the data into something like the Bartle Test or the Myers-Briggs Test?
It certainly is a challenge to determine the valid dichotomies and attributes that would encompass the kink world.
