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.
Hrrm
- Nontheist - 100%
- Neo-pagan 98% – Anyone want to summon Cthulu with me?
- Secular Humanist - 98%
- 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.
- Eastern Orthodox (100%)
- Roman Catholic (100%)
- Orthodox Quaker (86%)
- Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (83%)
- Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (80%)
No surprise there - I’m Roman Catholic.
StG
My answers:
- Eastern Orthodox (100%)
- Roman Catholic (100%)
- Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (97%)
- Seventh Day Adventist (91%)
- 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.
- Unitarian Universalism (100%):
Whatever.
- Scientology (56%):
Worrying.
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)
- Unitarian Universalism (100%)
- Secular Humanism (96%)
- Liberal Quakers (83%)
- Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (81%)
- Nontheist (74%)
- Neo-Pagan (72%)
- 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.
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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.
Wow, there seem to be quite a few Unitarian’s and Secular Humans here. Hmmmm…what could it mean…
Mine:
- Unitarian Universalist
- Mainline or Liberal Christian
- Christian Science
- New Thought
- Liberal Quakers
Curiouser and curiouser
I believe the Belief-net is biased towards results indicating the poll-taker actually believes in something that isn’t real.
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%)
Pretty much as usual…
- Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
- Liberal Quakers (93%)
- Unitarian Universalism (89%)
- 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…
Mine:
- Liberal Quakers (100%)
- Reform Judaism (99%)
- Unitarian Universalism (96%)
- Neo-Pagan (93%)
- 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.
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%)
My tops:
- Neo-pagan
- Mayahana Buddism
- UU
4.Theraveda Buddism - New Age
- 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.
Here are my results, up to and including 50%:
- Unitarian Universalism (100%)
- Secular Humanism (98%)
- Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (90%)
- Liberal Quakers (84%)
- Nontheist (82%)
- Neo-Pagan (66%)
- Theravada Buddhism (65%)
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (63%)
- Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (60%)
- Reform Judaism (58%)
- Bahá’í Faith (56%)
- New Thought (50%)
I’m so weird.
Here are my top 5:
- Neo-Pagan (100%)
- Mahayana Buddhism (95%)
- New Age (94%)
- Unitarian Universalism (84%)
- Theravada Buddhism (83%)
I’m pretty comfortable with that.
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…
I’ll blow that trend:
- Sikhism (100%)
- Reform Judaism (94%)
- Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (90%)
- Liberal Quakers (86%)
- Unitarian Universalism (84%)
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (54%)
- Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (52%)
- Theravada Buddhism (49%)
- Taoism (46%)
- Jehovah’s Witness (25%)
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.
WHOAH! Time to get on the ignorance fighting gloves.
In a word, NO!!! Of course not!
I suppose there are two questions to ask:
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Where are you from, approximately?
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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 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.