This morning I've been reading through my census form and pondering suitable answers.
Kind of amusing that Baptists get listed along with Jedi as 'other, please specify below'
Kind of bewildering answering 'how is your general health' ("very good") and 'do you suffer from any long term condition or disease?' (er, yes)
Kind of baffling answering 'what do you do in your job'...
Kind of brought out the worst in me being asked 'what is your nationality'... tempted to put 'other, citizen of heaven' but didn't.
Kind of curious to know how the Scotland questions compare with England (&?) Wales or Northern Ireland.
Ah well, this is the fifth census in which I've been recorded, at the fifth different address... so I'm sure I just suceed in messing up the statistics.
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We are trying to work out how to fill 2 in one for the manse and one for out other house - we will be at one during the day and one at night! The instructions on the website are not ones my poor brain can yet work out! Hopefully I will have got to grips with it by Sunday.
20 years ago I was one of the people tramping the streets delivering and collecting the census forms and helping people to fill them out - but then I had been trained to understand it!
Religion question says: Christian (including Church of England, Catholic, Protestant and all other Christian denominations)
Radio2 currently debating what you have to do to qualify to tick the Christian box
Interesting.... Christianity wise we can be
Church of Scotland
Roman Catholic
Other Christian, please write below
Job: Minister of Religion
Briefly describe what you do in your main job: (what can you say in a 32 character field?)
At your workplace, what is the main activity of your employer?
(in 51 characters). Definitely not religion. Who are we calling the employer here? Search and rescue? Debt cancellation? Health and wholeness? Loving and caring? Laying firm foundations and building up? Community regeneration? Restoration and reclamation? In the end I wrote 'Putting faith into practice'.
Yup, same questions here. I wrote 'promulgation of Christian faith' cos I thought a big word would confuse them! Could have put FinL I guess...!
I did wonder who my employer was too...
As to what I do, I was tempted to put 'drink tea, eat cake, read books and talk a lot' but ended up with boring things like preach, teach, pastorally caring, mission and admin (all very Pauline!)
I too, am querying the health question - only in good health because of all the various drugs I take! If not, I would be in a very sorry state, if here at all!
God is employer - church just pays the stipend!
It's what I have on my face book profile!