So says the website of Worldview Weekend, on a scale of “Communist/Marxist/Socialist/Secular Humanist Worldview Thinker” to “Strong Biblical Worldview Thinker”!

According to Worldview Weekend, some of the “Correct Answers” for someone with a “Biblical worldview” that I failed to give included:

• Strongly Agreeing with the statement “All forms of government-sponsored socialism stifle economic growth and prosperity to one degree or another.”
• Strongly Disagreeing that “One of the Ten Commandments is, ‘thou shalt not kill;’, thus it stands to reason that God is opposed to war and nations going to war.”
• Strongly Agreeing that “The Bible and a biblical worldview played an instrumental role in building our American civilization, original laws and form of government.”
• Strongly Agreeing that “The most biblically based tax system would be one based on a flat tax system where everyone pays the same percentage of their income in taxes.”

I also got heavily penalised for putting “No opinion” on issues of American politics I’m not informed about, or leading questions where I object to the assumptions packaged in the statements I was asked to comment on (such as “If the research and theory of a group of scientists contradicts the Word of God, the error is with the scientists, not the Bible.”), or on issues that were just plain bizarre (e.g. “Individual freedoms would be advanced and protected under a one-world government under United Nations authority.”)

The site makes a list of recommendations to “improve your biblical worldview”, including signing up to one of their conferences, camps, or course entitled “Thinking Like A Christain” (sic), and buying books from their online bookstore including titles by Tim LaHaye and Ken Ham of Left Behind and Answers in Genesis fame (or infamy) respectively.

I’m pleased when Christians try and engage their minds and think Christianly, but the WorldviewWeekend website seems more concerned with instilling prescribed “correct answers” rather than helping people to develop genuine intellectual engagement and maturity. And many of those “correct answers” are highly debatable, being tied up with a particular cultural and political position than bears no necessary connection to the Christian faith.

I could get angry and rant at length about the equating of right-wing politics with a “Christian worldview”, and the selectiveness of the worldview test (no mention of social justice, the environment, art and culture, and many other relevant issues) and so on, but someone has already done so – Jack Heller takes issue with the test in an article “Christian college professor flunks Christian worldview tests“.