Belief-O-Matic

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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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”.

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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. (“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

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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%)
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  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! :smiley:

  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!

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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. :slight_smile: