# 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:** 3
**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, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/41 "2002-10-03T23:49:59Z")
EEK! I sounded a lot more obnoxious/hostile there than I meant to. Sorry, not my intention. I’m really not that annoyed, and certainly not offended, but I was caught a bit off guard. Sorry. ---
**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, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/42 "2002-10-03T23:57:57Z")
…And I just took it again. It looks like things have shifted a bit: Secular Humanism: 100% Unitarian Universalism: 99% Liberal quakers: 89% That’s odd, kinda. It would make sense to me if UU was on top. I may be agnostic, but I like having a spiritual/religious life. Quakerism fits that niche nicely for me; I like UUs, but church services aren’t really my thing. Interesting, though… ---
**Author:** ![hazel-rah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/43 "2002-10-04T01:32:54Z")
1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (97%) 3. Neo-Pagan (72%) 4. Nontheist (72%) 5. Taoism (48%) I deleted any entry that involved belief in a deity or rebirth because I don’t believe in either. I left in Neo-Pagan because it’s the kind of religion where you can write your own ticket and nobody will ever disagree with you, so I’d do just fine. -fh ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/44 "2002-10-04T02:04:06Z")
Hmm,… a whole lotta UUs and Liberal Quakers in peoples’ first three or so. Mine: 1. Theravada Buddhism (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (97%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (95%) 4. Secular Humanism (93%) 5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (91%) I wonder what I marked differently to get Theravada Buddhism on top. I’m atheist (no, not agnostic) and I’m surprised to see Liberal Quaker ahead of Secular Humanism. Further down Nontheist came in (83%) directly before LDS (76%). And down at the bottom, Scientology (35%) edged out both Islam and Catholicism (both 34%). I don’t know… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Harvey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@Max\_Harvey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Harvey)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/45 "2002-10-04T03:19:19Z")
1. Jedi (100%) 2. Hunter/Gatherer (96%) 3. Orthodox Miscellaneous (94%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Numismatics (89%) 5. TV & VCR Repair (79%) ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/46 "2002-10-04T03:49:27Z")
1. Theravada Buddhism (100%) 2. Mahayana Buddhism (99%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (98%) 4. Liberal Quakers (88%) 5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (84%) This is pretty well dead on. ---
**Author:** ![Flashpaper\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Flashpaper\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flashpaper_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/47 "2002-10-04T07:24:05Z")
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (95%) 3. Neo-Pagan (94%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (93%) 5. New Age (92%) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/48 "2002-10-04T09:47:33Z")
I tried it but honestly couldn’t answer most of the questions as the answers were too specific (in a kind of ‘have you stopped beating your wife yet’ way - not answerable with a simple yes/no) ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/49 "2002-10-04T10:26:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > \*\*Because Anubis. I … am your father. \*\* How long have you been saving that one up? I disliked that they grouped “don’t know” it with “no”. ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/50 "2002-10-04T16:56:32Z")
Wow I think I’m the only hard core athiest here ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ghandi5569](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@ghandi5569](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghandi5569)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/51 "2002-10-04T17:17:00Z")
1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (93%) 3. Liberal Quakers (91%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (89%) 5. Mahayana Buddhism (85%) But, dammit, I wanted to be Ancient Roman. Their gods and goddesses were fun! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/52 "2002-10-04T18:01:50Z")
1. Orthodox Quaker (99%) 2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (85%) 3. Eastern Orthodox (81%) 4. Roman Catholic (81%) 5. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (81%) Looks like it fits in well with my Episcopal self. I kinda like the idea of being an Eastern Orthodox Quaker. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/53 "2002-10-04T18:12:35Z")
My Personal top-ten: 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (95%) 3. Neo-Pagan (90%) 4. Reform Judaism (85%) 5. Secular Humanism (84%) 6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (80%) 7. New Age (78%) 8. Bahá’í Faith (71%) 9. Mahayana Buddhism (65%) 10. Theravada Buddhism (62%) Amusingly enough- the faith I was raised in gets a mere 25%- best not let my meme find out! 1. Roman Catholic (25%) Actually #4, sounds good. I checked out #1’s link, but it was too much like Religion Light (Tastes Greay, Less Judgemental). Neo-Pagan? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![tourbot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@tourbot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tourbot)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/54 "2002-10-04T19:41:02Z")
Results above 70%: 1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (99%) 3. Liberal Quakers (88%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (85%) 5. Theravada Buddhism (74%) 6. Nontheist (73%) I retook the quiz a second time with minor modifications, but the top 3 were unchanged. Both times, Roman Catholic came dead last. This is a problem. It is time for my annual performance review… and I work for Catholic Charities. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/55 "2002-10-04T22:33:59Z")
1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (98%) 3. Nontheist (94%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (89%) 5. Liberal Quakers (81%) Even though I went to a _23. Roman Catholic (30%)_ school …and last of all was \*27. Jainism (11%) \* ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/56 "2002-10-04T22:36:30Z")
Not entirely sure how ‘Unitarian Universalism’ got ahead of Non-Theist 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/57 "2002-10-05T05:54:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by IJGrieve \* > \*\*Not entirely sure how ‘Unitarian Universalism’ got ahead of Non-Theist 😕 \*\* It’s on a religious website. They’re not just going to admit that people can be atheists. Even a Unitarian would be better than that. Grouping all atheists and agnostics together doesn’t make much sense, since there’s as much variation in aths and agns as there is in all the other religions. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/58 "2002-10-05T06:47:28Z")
1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (92%) 3. Reform Judaism (88%) 4. Liberal Quakers (82%) 5. New Age (80%) 6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (79%) 7. Secular Humanism (79%) 8. Mahayana Buddhism (73%) I always get Neo-Pagan at the top. Maybe I should convert… ---
**Author:** ![Badge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Badge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badge)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/59 "2002-10-05T14:29:23Z")
1. New Thought (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (92%) 3. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (91%) 4. Scientology (89%) 5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (88%) 6. Mahayana Buddhism (87%) 7. Sikhism (86%) 8. Reform Judaism (85%) 9. Liberal Quakers (81%) 10. Neo-Pagan (79%) I rather like Neo-Pagan and Mahayana Buddhism, but \* Scientology\*? That was a surprise! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/60 "2002-10-05T15:20:13Z")
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (98%) 3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (85%) 4. Liberal Quakers (84%) 5. Nontheist (81%) All this time I thought I was an atheist. I guess Bart Simpson winged me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076.md?page=4)