Interesting survey. Like many, it begins with assumptions about people of faith and Christians in particular. In fact it seems to assume people of faith are Christians and visa-versa, now that I think of it. Do you ask Jews, Muslims or Sikhs if they’re born again/evangelical?
Anyway, if Donny and I live within five miles of each other, I bet I’ll hear him taking this quiz.

Hi Dave – Since Doug evidently got to the survey, your link must be ok. But every time I tried it (3), I got a “page cannot be shown” message. Until I saw Doug’s comment, I was going to ask you to check the link and fix it. But maybe I have some other problem. (Well, don’t we all, but let’s not go into that here!) I’ll try again later today or tomorrow AM and see if it works better then. – Pete

How hard can it be (although I haven’t yet been able to get past the error page)? Christians shouldn’t have anything to do with Democrat politics and it’s promotion of immorality and Godlessness, and Christians should lead Republicans away from corporate greed. Duh.

Hey Pete–That link has been fixed now. Try try again! Thanks for alerting us to it.
Patton

Just to let you know, David, I tried the link to the Beliefnet survey again (about an hour later). This time it worked fine, so I took it, and, like Doug, found it interesting. Assume they’ll post the results before long, and will watch for them. Thanks – Pete A.

interesting survey, but the questions were too leading in either direction… like it was trying to get you to answer “Stereotypically” rather than honestly.. bummer..

Just to let you know, David, I tried the link to the Beliefnet survey again (about an hour later), and before I even saw Patton’s message. This time it worked fine, so I took the survey. Lke Doug, I found it interesting. Assume you folks will post the results before long. Will watch for them. Thanks, Patton – Pete A.

I just realized that follow up questions might depend on previous answers. While I still think it mostly a stereotype test, it does occur to me that had I identified as Catholic, Jewish or atheist the questions might have been different.

I enjoyed it, but stumbled on the question of “illegal immigrants.” Does the question mean you support their right for legal status, or that you want them on the next plane to Mexico? It didn’t say.
So I had to answer “in the middle,” even though my feelings on the subject are anything but.

the survey didnt work for me. I took for the screen of questions, clicked “next”, and then it didnt do anything except start the survey over.

I like the idea of the survey, finding out if there were other issues important in the faith & politics matrix, but as mentioned previously, some questions were a bit leading against the traditional conservative Christian agenda, and more favorably towards the progressive Christian agenda.
I believe that most, if not all, issues asked about should be important to followers of Christ. How they should be addressed – through government/church sponsored action or private individual/group action – is the where the real question/debate is.
But just as I think the way to reduce abortions is through education and culture rather than a government ban, I also think the way to tackle the environment and poverty is better suited for private individual and group action. Just because Christians have not done a good job raising awareness of these issues on the private side of things, does not mean I want the state to come in and do our job.
I am all for setting up government programs and policies to encourage the private and individual sectors to lead the way in all movements, Christian and non-Christian, but if you don’t think that soon after a government program to end poverty is initiated that the state will be spending more money on bureaucracy than actually helping the poor, you’re kidding yourself.

I thought a lot of the questions created false dichotomies… They were either/or when both/and should have been an option. And it wouldn’t let you leave them blank.

i agree, alot of the questions created a flase dichotomies. i’m not Christian and would simply prefer they mind their own business rather than trying to tell everyone else how or how they’re going to live.
i should have liked options added where an alternate answer could be recorded.