# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/61 "2002-10-06T23:29:38Z")
My top 10: 1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (97%) 3. Liberal Quakers (81%) 4. Nontheist (73%) 5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (72%) 6. Theravada Buddhism (69%) 7. Neo-Pagan (65%) 8. New Age (51%) 9. Reform Judaism (46%) 10.Taoism (46%) No huge surprises there, except maybe New Age - I don’t believe in chakras, crystals, candles, reincarnation or any other “New-Agey” stuff like that. Not sure what this is: 15. New Thought (34%) Mildly concerned about: 16. Scientology (33%) Re that lack of “Atheism” as a category, and the apparent reluctance to put “Nontheist” at the top of the list (given that it comes from a religious website) - I was wondering what the difference would be between “Secular Humanism” and “Atheist” or “Nontheist”. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/62 "2002-11-09T20:52:15Z")
I remember my dear friend Eric pointing me at a quiz on this site last May, but I think it was [a quiz designed to find out what kind of Christian you were](http://beliefnet.com/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=10002&surveyID=83). (“You’d better answer #1 for most of these,” he said… and after I took the test, “Wow, you scored even higher than I did!”) So I decided to take this test, and here are my results: 1. Orthodox Judaism (100%) 2. Sikhism (97%) 3. Orthodox Quaker (96%) 4. Seventh Day Adventist (96%) 5. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (90%) 6. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (89%) 7. Eastern Orthodox (89%) 8. Roman Catholic (89%) 9. Islam (87%) 10. Reform Judaism (79%) 11. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (77%) 12. Jehovah’s Witness (76%) 13. Bahá’í Faith (71%) 14. Liberal Quakers (68%) 15. Hinduism (61%) 16. Unitarian Universalism (56%) 17. Jainism (45%) 18. Neo-Pagan (38%) 19. Mahayana Buddhism (34%) 20. Theravada Buddhism (32%) 21. Secular Humanism (30%) 22. New Age (29%) 23. Scientology (26%) 24. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (26%) 25. Taoism (25%) 26. New Thought (22%) 27. Nontheist (22%) Me, an Orthodox Jew? I think not. The Seventh-Day Adventist and the LDS ones really concern me, as they’re so high up on the list! I’d say I was more a mainline Christian Protestant than anything else (I was raised in that religious sphere, more or less), yet it only has 77%. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/63 "2002-11-09T21:49:40Z")
Other than the 85% alignment with Liberal Christian Protestants and Quakers, I pretty much fall where I thought I would. Not bad for a screaming atheist… 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (98%) 3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (85%) 4. Liberal Quakers (84%) 5. Nontheist (81%) 6. Theravada Buddhism (78%) ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/64 "2002-11-09T22:09:55Z")
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Neo-Pagan (93%) 3. New Age (80%) 4. Liberal Quakers (79%) 5. Mahayana Buddhism (79%) Pretty much what I get every time. Let’s look farther down the list… 1. New Thought (79% ) Lookit, Maw! I had a new thought! 😃 1. Scientology (70%) Uh-oh… 1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (61%) Nice to see I’m still a recovering Lutheran. 1. Jehovah’s Witness (17%) Whew! ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076/65 "2002-11-10T14:39:12Z")
I’ve taken this test twice over the last three months or so. The first time I took it, my top three were: 1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (95%) 3. Liberal Quakers (93%) My current results are: 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Neo-Pagan (92%) 3. Liberal Quakers (90%) The results make sense to me. I grew up Roman Catholic, but my views have always been more Unitarian (although, until recently, I didn’t know there was a term to describe my beliefs). I had my mom take the test a few months ago, and Unitarian Universalism was one of her top results, too. This test has started some very interesting discussions on religion in our house. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/130076.md?page=3)