Monday, May 01, 2006

uncanny

I have a highly refined test in my sociological toolbox for analyzing the Christocentricity of a given denomination of the church. I google their website searching for "justice," and then for "Jesus." As a backup, I search 'peace' and 'Christ' as well.

For instance, the justice/Jesus ratio for the United Methodist Church is 13,100/12,100
Peace: 11,500
Christ: 16,800

FGC Quakers: 105/97 (higher than I expected)
Peace: 204
Christ: 81

Unitarian Universalists: 99,100/14,400
Peace: 56,800
Christ: 10,200

Assemblies of God: 165/35,000
Peace: 717
Christ: 37,400

Anyway, I only started writing about this because I went to the Brethren website to do my justice/Jesus search, and the site crashed every time I searched for Jesus. Go see if I'm making a mistake somehow. When I search for 'justice,' I get 706 responses. When I search for Jesus, I get "Internal Server Error."

I'm trying not to be superstitious, but either this is a profound theological statement on the impossibility of fully finding the infinite, or it says something important about the political wrangling at Annual Conference.

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