Are you a closet Calvinist? The C-factor test
Bess writes: Are you a closet Calvinist? Take the ‘C-factor’ test to find out.
Put together by Trouw newspaper for the recent survey on Calvinism it organised with Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the poll asks 25 questions on your work ethic, attitude to spending, debt, sex and showing emotion. The national average score in Holland? 56 per cent (Faith Central’s, btw was 47: some Calvinist attitudes on the surface, but a more light-hearted approach to living). Jan Peter Balkenende, the Dutch Prime Minister described his compatriots as Calvinists at the opening of an exhibition in Berlin to mark the 500th birthday last Friday of the 16th-century reformer with a reputation, perhaps undeserved, for dourness. The lowcountries blog, where I found the test, quotes the religious psychologist Joke van Saane who says the survey finding that young Dutch people are more conservative than an older generation fits with global trends towards orthodoxy among the young. She says:“In terms of religion they're more orthodox than older people, politically you can see that at the last election most of them voted for the Calvinist Balkenende.”
