# Belief-O-Matic **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 15, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/148842 "2003-01-15T22:44:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/148842/41 "2003-01-16T19:06:36Z")
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Theravada Buddhism (92%) 3. Liberal Quakers (91%) 4. Secular Humanism Hmmm… I guess it was my agreement with extinguishing materialism that got me selected as a Buddhist. From the description of Unitarian Universalism, it seems like ANYONE could fit in. “Some believe in God, some don’t,” etc. ---
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/148842/42 "2003-01-16T19:09:17Z")
[Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=137209) is the original thread. About the same as before: 1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 3. Liberal Quakers (89%) :dubious: 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (85%) :dubious: also 5. Nontheist (80%) Yea! I used the new smiley! ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/148842/43 "2003-01-16T19:11:00Z")
Top Three: 1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (97%) 3. Liberal Quakers (91%) Bottom Three: 25. Roman Catholic (19%) (which I am, at least on paper) 26. Seventh Day Adventist (14%) 27. Hinduism (10%) ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/148842/44 "2003-01-16T19:22:19Z")
1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (95%) 3. Mahayana Buddhism (86%) 4. Liberal Quakers (84%) … 5. Roman Catholic (31%) 6. Islam (29%) 7. Jehovah’s Witness (17%) I included the top 4 because I figured if I wasn’t a pagan I would probably convert to a Quaker or a Buddhist (in that order). ---
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/148842/45 "2003-01-16T20:25:05Z")
Oh yeah. My last three are, not surprisingly: 1. Eastern Orthodox (15%) 2. Roman Catholic (15%) 3. Jehovah’s Witness (12%) ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/148842/46 "2003-01-16T20:55:32Z")
Top 3: 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (98%) 3. Liberal Quakers (85%) Bottom 3: 25. Roman Catholic (17%) 26. Seventh Day Adventist (10%) 27. Hinduism (6%) ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/148842/47 "2003-01-16T23:32:46Z")
Hmmm … I wonder why the Belief-O-Matic keeps on insisting that I should belong to the Church of Satan… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/148842/48 "2003-01-17T00:23:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > **Wasn’t it backed by the Unitarian Universalists or something like that. A lot of people are getting that belief system (or lack of one as the case may be)?** You ain’t kiddin’. I just took that test and picked the most “hardline atheist” answer of each and every question. The result? 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Nontheist (96%) Bah. This isn’t a quiz, it’s a Unitarian recruitment poster. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/148842/49 "2003-01-17T02:04:13Z")
**Anubis** , thanks for the link to the other thread on this subject. Does the search function just look at titles? How did you find that? **cjhoworth** said > [@](#): > > My top five: > > 1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%) > 2. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (84%) That is so stunningly weird! How do you explain it? Whenever I have to check into a hospital and they ask my religious preference, I borrow from the old Firesign Theater: The Powerhouse Church of the Presumptuous Assumption of the Blinding Light Favorite hymn: “O, Blinding Light. O Light that blinds, Look out for me – I cannot see.” ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/148842/50 "2003-01-21T01:23:13Z")
I _know_ we did this a long time ago. > [@](#): > > [ol][li]Secular Humanism (100%)[/li] > [li]Unitarian Universalism (98%)[/li] > [li]Theravada Buddhism (90%)[/li] > [li]Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (83%)[/li] > [li]Nontheist (83%)[/li] > [li]Liberal Quakers (82%)[/li] > [li]Neo-Pagan (77%)[/li] > [li]Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (71%)[/li] > [li]New Thought (61%)[/li] > [li]Bahá’í Faith (58%)[/li][/ol] Actually, I’m an atheist. That means I regard everything skeptically and wait for physical evidence based on repeatable, intelligent experiments. Bottom ten: > [@](#): > > 1. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (44%) > > 2. Sikhism (40%) > > 3. Jehovah’s Witness (35%) > > 4. Hinduism (26%) > > 5. Jainism (26%) > > 6. Eastern Orthodox (23%) > > 7. Islam (23%) > > 8. Orthodox Judaism (23%) > > 9. Orthodox Quaker (23%) > > 10. Roman Catholic (23%) > > 11. Seventh Day Adventist (6%) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belief-o-matic/148842.md?page=2)