# Belief-O-Matic **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076 "2002-09-29T05:39:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/21 "2002-09-30T03:20:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Musicat \* > \*\*And I wonder what **Osiris** answered differently than I did to get Secular Humanism on top! \*\* I thought about it and I think it must be how I rated the importance of certain things. This surprisingly complex quiz has 394,813,440 possible outcomes. ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/22 "2002-09-30T15:37:43Z")
Hrrm 1. Nontheist - 100% 2. Neo-pagan 98% – Anyone want to summon Cthulu with me? 🙂 3. Secular Humanist - 98% 4. Liberal Quaker - 84% and much farther down Scientology 34% Actually after reading the description of the different beliefs I think this test is pretty accurate. I don’t believe that we humans can save ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/23 "2002-09-30T15:57:50Z")
1. Eastern Orthodox (100%) 2. Roman Catholic (100%) 3. Orthodox Quaker (86%) 4. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (83%) 5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (80%) No surprise there - I’m Roman Catholic. StG ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/24 "2002-09-30T18:51:05Z")
My answers: 1. Eastern Orthodox (100%) 2. Roman Catholic (100%) 3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (97%) 4. Seventh Day Adventist (91%) 5. Orthodox Quaker (89%) I guess that’s understandable - I’m a conservative Episcopalian which would fall between #2 and #3. The Eastern Orthodox is interesting, though. I wonder what gave EO/RC the edge over Protestantism? Maybe I put too much emphasis on doing good works. ---
**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/25 "2002-09-30T20:18:20Z")
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%): Whatever. 1. Scientology (56%): Worrying. ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/26 "2002-09-30T21:25:53Z")
Heh. As I was taking the quiz, my computer started playing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’. My top 7: (I cut off at 70%, since the drop off for scores really plummeted after that) 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (96%) 3. Liberal Quakers (83%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (81%) 5. Nontheist (74%) 6. Neo-Pagan (72%) 7. Theravada Buddhism (70%) Hey, I can string these together and come up with my own new-fangled religion! Woo-hoo! “Hey baby, I’m a Unitarian Secular Quker Liberal Neo-nontheist Buddhist!” What’s odd though, is that I’m not religious at all: I’m more of the ‘what ever floats your boat, just don’t try to convert me’ type. * * * \<\< Entropy isn’t what it used to be. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![ladydisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@ladydisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladydisco)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/27 "2002-10-03T10:17:21Z")
Somewhere down the list i was 29% Jehovah’s Witness. My friend who I was staying with told me I was lucky - 1% more and he would have kicked me out. But I told him I would just knock on his door again. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/28 "2002-10-03T15:17:03Z")
Wow, there seem to be quite a few Unitarian’s and Secular Humans here. Hmmmm…what could it mean… Mine: 1. Unitarian Universalist 2. Mainline or Liberal Christian 3. Christian Science 4. New Thought 5. Liberal Quakers Curiouser and curiouser ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/29 "2002-10-03T15:17:25Z")
I believe the Belief-net is biased towards results indicating the poll-taker actually believes in something that isn’t real. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/30 "2002-10-03T15:46:45Z")
Hey, not bad! Pretty accurate overall. 1.  Neo-Pagan (100%) 2.  Unitarian Universalism (98%) 3.  New Age (94%) 4.  Liberal Quakers (87%) 5.  Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (79%) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/31 "2002-10-03T15:49:07Z")
Pretty much as usual… 1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (93%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (89%) 4. Orthodox Quaker (79%) 5=. Bahá’í Faith (76%) Reform Judaism (76%) Though, further down the list, I see my Scientology percentage has crept up to 46%, which is a bit alarming. Fortunately, I’m still more of a Muslim (48%) or a Hindu (53%) than I am a Scientologist. And 18% Jehovah’s Witness…? People are always telling me to lose weight, I think that 18% of me should be the first to go… ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/32 "2002-10-03T17:37:31Z")
Mine: 1. Liberal Quakers (100%) 2. Reform Judaism (99%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (96%) 4. Neo-Pagan (93%) 5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (88%) I was most recently affiliated with the Methodist church, so number 5 makes sense to me. I read over the information on Quakers (AKA Society of Friends). I don’t know much about them, but wow, I see why I got 100% on that one. Kinda cool. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/33 "2002-10-03T18:37:22Z")
Interesting survey. Here are my results 1.  Secular Humanism (100%) 2.  Unitarian Universalism (96%) 3.  Liberal Quakers (86%) 4.  Theravada Buddhism (77%) 5.  Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (76%) 6.  Neo-Pagan (72%) 7.  Nontheist (71%) 8.  New Age (55%) 9.  Taoism (53%) 10.  Bahá’í Faith (48%) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/34 "2002-10-03T18:39:17Z")
My tops: 1. Neo-pagan 2. Mayahana Buddism 3. UU 4.Theraveda Buddism 4. New Age 5. Liberal Quakers Catholic, which was what I was raised, is my last. I am more church of Sciencetology and Jehovah than what I was raised…and frankly, that really frightens me. So, if any of you ever see me dancing with Travolta or doing door to door WatchTower-shit-you-pants-wiht-doom-pamphlets, please, I beg you to shoot me in the head. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/35 "2002-10-03T18:56:48Z")
Here are my results, up to and including 50%: 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (98%) 3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (90%) 4. Liberal Quakers (84%) 5. Nontheist (82%) 6. Neo-Pagan (66%) 7. Theravada Buddhism (65%) 8. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (63%) 9. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (60%) 10. Reform Judaism (58%) 11. Bahá’í Faith (56%) 12. New Thought (50%) I’m so weird. ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/36 "2002-10-03T20:45:45Z")
Here are my top 5: 1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Mahayana Buddhism (95%) 3. New Age (94%) 4. Unitarian Universalism (84%) 5. Theravada Buddhism (83%) I’m pretty comfortable with that. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/37 "2002-10-03T21:19:30Z")
Well, my top 5 are _exactly_ the same as those of **kitarak** , in the same order. The percentages for some are different, but not by much. Looking over everyone’s results, I’m sensing a trend here… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/38 "2002-10-03T21:36:19Z")
I’ll blow that trend: 1. Sikhism (100%) 2. Reform Judaism (94%) 3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (90%) 4. Liberal Quakers (86%) 5. Unitarian Universalism (84%) 6. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (54%) 7. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (52%) 8. Theravada Buddhism (49%) 9. Taoism (46%) 10. Jehovah’s Witness (25%) ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/39 "2002-10-03T21:40:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Barbarian \* > \*\*I believe the Belief-net is biased towards results indicating the poll-taker actually believes in something that isn’t real. \*\* I concur. Some of my answers (regarding how I think people should act toward one another) really have nothing to do with any hypothetical deity/s. Still, I don’t personally think of Secular Humanism as a religion, and I like that one. ---
**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/40 "2002-10-03T23:45:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > \*\*Isnt’ “Liberal Quaker” an oxymoron? > \*\* WHOAH! Time to get on the ignorance fighting gloves. In a word, NO!!! Of course not! I suppose there are two questions to ask: 1. Where are you from, approximately? 2. Are you getting “Quaker” confused with “Shaker?” The number of people that do is pretty damn annoying. I think I can assert, as a liberal quaker among liberal quakers, that liberal quakers are NOT an oxymoron. Quakers in general tend to be good people. Many are certainly conservative, yes, but that’s compared to other quakers. The conservative quakers tend to fall on the moderate right, as opposed to extremist. My main beef with them is intolerance toward homosexuality, and a stronger tendency to prosyletize. Being more Christ-centered is something I find easier to forgive. In a nutshell, liberal Quakers are like slightly quirky Unitarian Universalists (except that we’ve been around longer :D). Most of us are in New England and along the Eastern Seaboard, and in Britain. Anyway, I don’t really see any need to explain more. I’ve told you more than you wanted to know, I’m sure… but I find some of the assumptions some people make about Quakers (No, we can use electricity, alright! You’re thinking of Pennsylvania Dutch, doofus!) to be rather irritating. In the even that you actually want to hear about what they believe, [religioustolerance.org](http://religioustolerance.org) has a page on them. Anyway, I don’t remember all of my answers, but when I took the test a few months ago I got something like: Liberal quakers Unintarian Universalism Secular Humanism etc. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076.md?page=3)