How successful are you in practicing the tenets of your religion/spirituality/faith?

[More Than A Feeling]

Ok, this is it. No false modesty Tell the world, in your honest opinion, what percentage of the time you think you are successfully putting the teachings of your religion/spirituality/faith into practice. Nobody is gonna know who said what if you don't want them to, so if you think you've got this whole faith thing down pat, go ahead and vote 100%.

So what percentage of time are you successfully practicing the teachings of your religion/faith/spirituality?

[illinoisprogressive]

1. I turned away from religion when it got political and weird beginning in the 80s

[htuttle]

2. 70%, but I'm secular-Wiccan, so it's easy...

...as long as you're nice to people, and don't litter.

:)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. I don't really keep track

I'd say that I keep to the tenets of my religion as it's currently practiced. People of earlier generations might think me a heretic, but I belong to a denomination that has evolved wiith the times.

I'd have to say "more than 50% but less than 100%."

[BlueJazz]

4. Since I'm an Atheist, I practice my own Spirituality by....

...being kind and understanding to others and try to "do no harm".

[Skittles]

5. ditto

I don't need religion to teach me to do the right thing

[OneBlueSky]

6. not nearly as successful as I'd like to be . . . n/t

[Igel]

7. I put myself down for 20%.

I still have my beliefs. I'm just sort of estranged from them and do a half-hearted (or 20% hearted) job of abiding by them. They have a corporate and an individual side, a formal and an informal side. The corporate and many formal bits are simply impossible currently, and the purely individual formal bits are trivial to observe.

This might change. I'm scouting out churches, might start attending; my wife wants our kid brought up in a church--if he quits when he's ok, fine. She's an atheist with the hand-me-down Protestant values that many unchurched baby-boomers had.

[MistressOverdone]

8. Maybe 80 percent?

Mostly I'm too old and tired to get in much trouble anymore.

[TRYPHO]

9. Hmm...thats a tough one...

Because there might be 613 I'm supposed to do, but they dont have equal weight. For example I may have lied to my kids when I told them there was no chocolate in my study, but on the other hand I didn't kill them or anyone else today. Likewise I may have learn't some small snippet of Talmud, but I didn't keep the Sabbath.

I answered 40% - work to do.

On the other hand that's a scaled score of 75% - passed the final exam ok thank God.

TRYPHO