Belief-O-Matic

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Has anyone else tried the Belief-O-Matic, found at Beliefnet?

You answer 20 questions concerning your spiritual belief, and rate the importance of each question. You then receive a listing how well you match with various religions. It’s an interesting quiz, and includes a thoughtful warning that they take no legal responsibility for the fate of your soul.

My top 5:

  1. Unitarian Universalist
  2. Liberal Quakers
  3. Neopagan
  4. Mahayana Buddhism
  5. Hinduism
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I try it every 3-6 months. Generally I end up Liberal Protestant, then Conservative Protestant, and the next few vary.

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Okay, I forgot to actually take it again, so I did, and the typical results were:

  1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
  2. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (86%)
  3. Bahá’í Faith (83%)
  4. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (80%)
  5. Liberal Quakers (74%)

Hmm, I’m a bit surprised by the high showings of Bahá’í and LDS, but the other three were pretty predictable.

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still trying to grasp their meaning with “Christian Protestants” - aren’t capital-P Protestants always Christian?

It is, however, interesting that an atheist (me) comes up as “Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants” as 100% - guess a believe in God is not required for those folks… :slight_smile:

and:

Eastern Orthodox
Hinduism
Islam
Orthodox Judaism
Roman Catholic

all came up at 26% - ummmm, don’t think so (or I am HORRIBLY conflicted!)

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  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  2. Liberal Quakers (98%)
  3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (98%)
  4. Neo-Pagan (88%)
  5. Secular Humanism (84%)

Hmmm. Maybe I should quit telling folk I’m non-Christian, in favour of getting cards printed with all the above on, saying, “Here! I might be any or all of these!”

No?

Oh, well. Back to th’ ol’ drawing board, then. :slight_smile:

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  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (97%)
  3. Liberal Quakers (93%)
  4. Neo-Pagan (87%)
  5. New Age (85%)

I’m a hippy? I’d best go and beat myself up. :smiley:

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  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  2. Secular Humanism (98%)
  3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (88%)
  4. Liberal Quakers (85%)
  5. Nontheist (85%)

Eh? Christian? How does that fit with my repeatedly saying “God does not exist.”? (or not sure. Or unimportant.)

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  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  2. Liberal Quakers (94%)
  3. Jainism (91%)
  4. Mahayana Buddhism (84%)
  5. Hinduism (83%)

Isnt’ “Liberal Quaker” an oxymoron?

Aside from Hinduism and Jainism, I have no idea what the other religions mean…guess I should do some research, huh?

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I usually score pretty close to where I am. The results this time:

  1. Eastern Orthodox (100%)
  2. Roman Catholic (100%)
  3. Mainline to conservative Christian/Protestant (95%)
  4. Seventh Day Adventist (85%)
  5. Orthodox Quaker (81%)
    I’m Catholic, by the way.
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  1. Secular Humanism (100%)
  2. Unitarian Universalism (99%)
  3. Liberal Quakers (87%)
  4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (82%)
  5. Nontheist (71%)

Well kitarak. Looks like we score pretty similarly. Although I probably should lose some points for even taking that quiz. Interesting.

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I tried the test, deliberately answering all questions with a non-religious answer (no god, no afterlife, etc.) and set all priorities the same to give them equal weight. The results came back similar to others:
[ol][li]Unitarian Universalism (100%) [/li][li]Secular Humanism (99%) [/li][li]Nontheist (84%) [/li][li]Liberal Quakers (80%), etc.[/ol][/li]#2 & 3 would make sense. But either Unitarians & Quakers don’t believe in god, the devil, heaven, hell, the afterlife, etc., or this test is pretty bogus.

And I wonder what Osiris answered differently than I did to get Secular Humanism on top!

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  1. Secular Humanism (100%)
  2. Unitarian Universalism (96%)
  3. Liberal Quakers (93%)
  4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (82%)
  5. Neo-Pagan (77%)
    Hmm. I’m closer to you than kitarak is, Osiris. I wonder why…
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I don’t know about Quakers, but from my admittedly limited understanding of it, no, Unitarians don’t have to believe in any of those things.

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My top 5:

Unitarian Universalism (100%)
Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (85%)
Liberal Quakers (84%)
Secular Humanism (81%)
Nontheist (76%)

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  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  2. Secular Humanism (98%)
  3. Liberal Quakers (87%)
  4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (82%)
  5. Nontheist (72%)

I’m surprised unitarian universalism and secular humanism aren’t switched.

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  1. Liberal Quakers (100%)
  2. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  3. Neo-Pagan (98%)
  4. Reform Judaism (95%)
  5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (91%)

The only ones that concern me are:
15. Scientology (57%)
21. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (41%)

but I guess they show up low enough on my list. Whew! :smiley:

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My Top 5

  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  2. Secular Humanism (98%)
  3. Liberal Quakers (90%)
  4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (86%)
  5. Theravada Buddhism (74%)

I dunno how I got Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (86%) seeing as how I answered every question nonreligiously.

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My Top 5:

  1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
  2. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (89%)
  3. Orthodox Quaker (89%)
  4. Seventh Day Adventist (74%)
  5. Liberal Quakers (74%)

I guess I’m one of the three non-Unitarians on this board…

Oh, and this test was spot-on. I’m Lutheran!

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Because Anubis. I … am your father.

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Hmm. Let’s see…

  1. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (100%)
  2. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (90%)
  3. Eastern Orthodox (88%)
  4. Roman Catholic (88%)

That’s very interesting. I’m Anglo-Catholic, and not Protestant at all. How odd.