I, being of a puckish nature, took the quiz.<\/p>\n
I apparently hold 14 different heretical beliefs! I have probably been anathematized by every ecumenical council and synod since the second century CE!<\/p>\n
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I am such a silly person.<\/p>\n
Seriously, though, somehow I rate as a Liberal Christian with a score of 82%, in spite of — or maybe because of — all that heresy.<\/p>\n
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I’m a little disappointed that Pelagianism didn’t make the list, and also that the bar only goes halfway. I could be committing more heresy!<\/p>\n
I joke, but right-wing Christian nationalists would probably be quite excited to send me to the pyre, if not for my heresies than for my liberalism. The Puritans put Quakers to death in Boston, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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