# Check out this amusing religion test - What religion are you? Post results. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095 "2005-11-02T16:26:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/101 "2005-11-04T00:12:05Z")
> [@YaWanna](#): > > It’s an automated test. Your answers to the questions are matched up to answers in the database that line up with the general stated beliefs of each “religion”, and scored thusly. What’s so damn hard to understand about it? Bad day? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/102 "2005-11-04T00:14:14Z")
My top 10 were: 1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (94%) 3. Taoism (91%) 4. Unitarian Universalism (91%) 5. New Age (85%) 6. Mahayana Buddhism (80%) 7. Secular Humanism (77%) 8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (76%) 9. Theravada Buddhism (69%) 10. New Thought (65%) I know I wouldn’t be into #1 or 5 and I’m not really sure what #10 is. Other than that the others make sense knowing how scrambled my beliefs are. ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/103 "2005-11-04T00:17:35Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > Bad day? Nope. Just havin’ a hard time understanding why you (a) seemed to take offense at my post > [@](#): > > Before you go rolling your eyes at me… and (b) why you still seem to not get it > [@](#): > > Nevertheless I am only 70% nontheist. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/104 "2005-11-04T00:24:47Z")
> [@YaWanna](#): > > Nope. Just havin’ a hard time understanding why you (a) seemed to take offense at my post and (b) why you still seem to not get it Hi **YaWanna** Is it possible the poster thinks correctly that the test was made in a fashion that skews away from nontheist. He/She would actually have a valid point. It does seem that to be 100% nontheist you would have to answer every question in a negative fashion, including the compassion questions. Just a thought Jim ---
**Author:** ![633squadron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/ee59a6/32.png) [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/105 "2005-11-04T00:38:50Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > Whether or not you are a Neo Pagan Satanist or a devout Greek Orthodox this little test will tell you where your persuasions are 1. Reform Judaism (100%) (how I was raised) ;j 2. Liberal Quakers (95%) (very attuned to it, went to a Quaker school, my brother became a Quaker) 3. Unitarian Universalism (92%) (my mom) 4. Sikhism (88%) (!) 5. Bahá’í Faith (76%) (LOL) 6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (75%) ( :eek: ) 7. Orthodox Judaism (75%) (Admire them a lot) 8. Islam (67%) (hmmmm. I agree. I admire mainstream Muslims for refusing to let the “modern” world overwhelm their spirituality) 9. ``` Roman Catholic (30%) (whew!) ``` ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/106 "2005-11-04T00:41:32Z")
**YaWanna** , even an automated test can be critiqued for validity. ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/107 "2005-11-04T00:43:20Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Hi **YaWanna** > Is it possible the poster thinks correctly that the test was made in a fashion that skews away from nontheist. He/She would actually have a valid point. It does seem that to be 100% nontheist you would have to answer every question in a negative fashion, including the compassion questions. > > Just a thought > Jim Well, **jrfranchi/Jim** I appreciate what you’re saying as far as that there’s an unnecessary misunderstanding going on here. Yes, to score 100% **agreement with** (again, the test doesn’t say you **are** 100% anything - only **you** can make that determination. The test says that these religions/belief systems have x% of alignment with your personal views/beliefs) a nontheist, you **would** have to answer every question exactly the same as a definitive nontheist. But, I don’t agree with the premise that nontheists are against compassion. And yes, the questions might be skewed depending on the agenda of the sponsoring website. And yes, many of the questions aren’t directly asking if you believe in a deity - although that belief or disbelief can have a profound influence on your answers to many of the questions. But I don’t see how that invalidates my point. The percentage of comparison to any given group **doesn’t mean** that **you, the testee** are **in** that religion by **any** percentage. It just means you agreed with their answers to a certain percentage of the questions. ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/108 "2005-11-04T00:44:53Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > **YaWanna** , even an automated test can be critiqued for validity. Surely, many other Dopers besides me aced college Logic class - yes? No? ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/109 "2005-11-04T00:49:00Z")
1. Mahayana Buddhism (100%) 2. Neo-Pagan (92%) 3. Hinduism (90%) 4. Jainism (83%) 5. Theravada Buddhism (83%) 6. Unitarian Universalism (80%) 7. Liberal Quakers (77%) 8. New Age (74%) 9. Sikhism (73%) 10. Reform Judaism (64%) Neo-pagan, wtf? Lame, lame, lame. I practice my #3 although I guess I disagree with it about 10% of the time according to this poll. ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/110 "2005-11-04T00:50:27Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > Whether or not you are a Neo Pagan Satanist or a devout Greek Orthodox this little test will tell you where your persuasions are… Check out this [Religion](http://selectsmart.com/PRO/beliefnet/index1.html) test to narrow down what your religious persuasions are. At the end they tell you via a percentage what you are… It is quite amusing and eye opening in a funny sort of way. > [@the website](#): > > The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa. No disrespect to **Phlosphr** , but his interpretation of the test’s intent are pretty much opposite of what they state. Their statement, which I read first before taking the test, is the basis of my “case.” ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/111 "2005-11-04T01:26:07Z")
Here’s mine: 1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (93%) 3. Nontheist (76%) 4. Theravada Buddhism (76%) 5. Liberal Quakers (76%) 6. Neo-Pagan (68%) 7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (59%) 8. New Age (50%) 9. Taoism (44%) 10. Orthodox Quaker (41%) 11. Reform Judaism (41%) 12. Mahayana Buddhism (41%) 13. Bahá’í Faith (31%) 14. Scientology (30%) 15. Jainism (30%) 16. Sikhism (28%) 17. New Thought (27%) 18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (26%) 19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (23%) 20. Seventh Day Adventist (22%) 21. Hinduism (20%) 22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (20%) 23. Islam (18%) 24. Orthodox Judaism (18%) 25. Jehovah’s Witness (15%) 26. Eastern Orthodox (13%) 27. Roman Catholic (13%) Apparently I’m going to have to find out about Theravada Buddhism…I would say that most of the rankings otherwise seem to be pretty accurate and in line with my beliefs (on a very superficial level). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Batman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@The\_Batman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Batman)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/112 "2005-11-04T01:51:09Z")
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (93%) 3. Liberal Quakers (88%) Damn, I wanted Secular Humanism to win. I guess I left “Nature of Deity” at medium instead of low amplitude (or speed or whatever they were measuring). ---
**Author:** ![Kyyrewyyoae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kyyrewyyoae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyyrewyyoae)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/113 "2005-11-04T01:51:40Z")
1. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (100%) 2. Eastern Orthodox (82%) 3. Roman Catholic (82%) 4. Seventh Day Adventist (76%) 5. Orthodox Quaker (73%) 6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (73%) 7. Islam (71%) 8. Orthodox Judaism (71%) 9. Bah�’� Faith (70%) 10. ``` Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (57%) ``` 11. ``` Jehovah's Witness (55%) ``` 12. ``` Sikhism (50%) ``` 13. ``` Liberal Quakers (48%) ``` 14. ``` Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (48%) ``` 15. ``` Reform Judaism (43%) ``` 16. ``` Unitarian Universalism (34%) ``` 17. ``` New Thought (30%) ``` 18. ``` Nontheist (29%) ``` 19. ``` Hinduism (28%) ``` 20. ``` Jainism (27%) ``` 21. ``` Scientology (22%) ``` 22. ``` Mahayana Buddhism (21%) ``` 23. ``` Theravada Buddhism (21%) ``` 24. ``` Neo-Pagan (16%) ``` 25. ``` Taoism (15%) ``` 26. ``` New Age (13%) ``` 27. ``` Secular Humanism (13%) ``` ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/114 "2005-11-04T02:30:22Z")
59% Scientology? That’s still gotta be a strain on the old pocketbook. Doesn’t look like I’ll get my share of Mormon wives in the afterlife, unless the 22% Islamic… 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (92%) 3. Secular Humanism (81%) 4. Theravada Buddhism (79%) 5. Neo-Pagan (78%) 6. New Age (74%) 7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (74%) 8. Mahayana Buddhism (73%) 9. Taoism (72%) 10. New Thought (61%) 11. Scientology (59%) 12. Reform Judaism (56%) 13. Orthodox Quaker (54%) 14. Jainism (53%) 15. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (52%) 16. Nontheist (52%) 17. Hinduism (47%) 18. Bahá’í Faith (44%) 19. Sikhism (39%) 20. Seventh Day Adventist (26%) 21. Islam (22%) 22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (22%) 23. Orthodox Judaism (22%) 24. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (21%) 25. Eastern Orthodox (14%) 26. Roman Catholic (14%) 27. Jehovah’s Witness (10%) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/115 "2005-11-04T03:03:42Z")
1. Liberal Quakers (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (95%) 3. Neo-Pagan (87%) ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/116 "2005-11-04T03:37:54Z")
…and yet, I’m still a ;j 1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. New Age (84%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (82%) 4. Mahayana Buddhism (82%) 5. Reform Judaism (77%) 6. Hinduism (76%) 7. Liberal Quakers (75%) 8. Theravada Buddhism (71%) 9. Jainism (67%) 10. Orthodox Judaism (66%) 11. Sikhism (65%) 12. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (63%) 13. Bah’ Faith (63%) 14. Scientology (63%) 15. Islam (59%) 16. New Thought (55%) 17. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (44%) 18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (43%) 19. Orthodox Quaker (43%) 20. Secular Humanism (42%) 21. Seventh Day Adventist (39%) 22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (38%) 23. Eastern Orthodox (36%) 24. Roman Catholic (36%) 25. Taoism (35%) 26. Jehovah’s Witness (32%) 27. Nontheist (26%) ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/117 "2005-11-04T04:09:01Z")
The relationship between neo-paganism and Christianity (perhaps one should include Unitarian Universalism, but I don’t know what this means) is closer than might be imagined at first glance. Perhaps this is a pointer as to why people with such divergent religious beliefs and opinions can get on so well here. From a letter by CS Lewis, dated January 1936, incidentally to a Catholic (Benedictine) monk, who had been his student: > [@](#): > > What indeed can we imagine heaven to be but unimpeded obedience. I think this is one of the causes of our love of inanimate nature, that in it we see things which unswervingly carry out the will of their Creator, and are therefore wholly beautiful: and though their _kind_ of obedience is infinitely lower than ours, yet the degree is so much more perfect that a Christian can see the reason that the Romantics had in feeling a certain holiness in the wood and water. The Pantheistic conclusions they sometimes drew are false: but their feeling was just and we can safely allow it in ourselves now that we know the real reason. ---
**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/118 "2005-11-04T04:18:37Z")
My top and bottom five: 1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (80%) 3. Bahá’í Faith (79%) 4. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (79%) 5. Orthodox Quaker (75%) 6. Scientology (34%) 7. Hinduism (31%) 8. Jainism (31%) 9. Taoism (31%) 10. Nontheist (20%) Interesting results, guess I’ll have to do some research on the Quakers. The weirdest thing I saw in this thread was an ad on page two for “Messianic Christian Curr”. What the hell is that? Some kind of Hebrew Hound? ---
**Author:** ![Theologue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Theologue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theologue)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/119 "2005-11-04T07:41:39Z")
Me in real life: Neo-orthodox (Barthian) Pentecostal (Arminian/Wesleyan Protestant) My test results: 1. Seventh Day Adventist (100%). This only came up because I agree with them on conditional immortality. 2. Eastern Orthodox (95%). Except I agree with the losing side of the iconoclast controversy. 3. Roman Catholic (95%). There are things I am in agreement with RC about, but not 95%. 4. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (91%) Fairly accurate. 5. Orthodox Quaker (89%) Share their pacifism. This is a very flawed test. I’m a theologian and I left #12 blank because none of the answers were acceptable. None of the questions had anything to do with renewal Christianity, which represents 1 out of 4 Christians or 500 million people. They missed some very important categories; OTOH, do they really need two categories of Quakers? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/120 "2005-11-04T09:37:39Z")
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (84%) 3. Liberal Quakers (83%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (80%) 5. Neo-Pagan (75%) 6. Scientology (73%) 7. Theravada Buddhism (72%) 8. New Thought (70%) 9. New Age (68%) 10. ``` Reform Judaism (67%) ``` 11. ``` Mahayana Buddhism (65%) ``` 12. ``` Taoism (64%) ``` 13. ``` Nontheist (61%) ``` 14. ``` Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (58%) ``` 15. ``` Sikhism (55%) ``` . . . 27. Jehovah’s Witness (5%) #6 worries me a great deal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095.md?page=7)