# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/121 "2005-11-04T09:57:06Z")
1. Liberal Quakers (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (94%) 3. Neo-Pagan (78%) 4. New Age (75%) 5. Secular Humanism (75%) Quaker - hey, Nixon was a quaker wasn’t he? Cool! mm ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/122 "2005-11-04T14:01:45Z")
1. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (100%) 2. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (93%) 3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (90%) 4. Bahá’í Faith (78%) 5. Jehovah’s Witness (77%) 6. Orthodox Quaker (75%) 7. Islam (70%) 8. Orthodox Judaism (70%) 9. Eastern Orthodox (69%) 10. Roman Catholic (69%) 11. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (60%) 12. Seventh Day Adventist (60%) I am 1. I deeply disagree with the distinctive theological teachings of 2 but got it because of my social conservatism & my belief that God has a corporeal nature. If not for that, I should have scored higher on 9 & 10. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/123 "2005-11-04T14:40:40Z")
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Neo-Pagan (96%) 3. Liberal Quakers (94%) 4. Reform Judaism (87%) 5. New Age (86%) 6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (85%) 7. Secular Humanism (83%) 8. Sikhism (79%) 9. Mahayana Buddhism (76%) 10. ``` Bahá'í Faith (70%) ``` 11. ``` New Thought (68%) ``` 12. ``` Theravada Buddhism (68%) ``` 13. ``` Scientology (63%) ``` 14. ``` Taoism (60%) ``` 15. ``` Jainism (58%) ``` 16. ``` Nontheist (57%) ``` 17. ``` Orthodox Judaism (54%) ``` 18. ``` Orthodox Quaker (51%) ``` 19. ``` Hinduism (47%) ``` 20. ``` Islam (45%) ``` 21. ``` Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (44%) ``` 22. ``` Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (35%) ``` 23. ``` Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (35%) ``` 24. ``` Eastern Orthodox (28%) ``` 25. ``` Roman Catholic (28%) ``` 26. ``` Seventh Day Adventist (22%) ``` 27. ``` Jehovah's Witness (10%) ``` I’m actually surprised that New Age is that _low_ for me, given that it’s been one of the most important forces in shaping my beliefs. I also find it funny that RC always ends up near the bottom for me when I take this kind of test, because that’s the religion I was raised in (if not strongly–my mother isn’t very religious and neither am I) ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/124 "2005-11-04T14:58:02Z")
100% New Age 98% Neo-Pagan 97% Liberal Quaker U.U. is also high on the list. I was brought up Lutheran…but lately my beliefs are changing. I feel Christianity these days is mostly a construct of man…and has little to do with Christ’s teaching…but I’ll leave it at that…don’t want to step into Great Debates territory. ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/125 "2005-11-04T22:17:16Z")
Here are my top five: Secular Humanism (100) Unitarian Universalism (92) Theravada Buddhism (86) Liberal Quakers (85) Neo-Pagan (73) And my bottom five: Orthodox Judaism (24) Mormons (23) Eastern Orthodox (15) Roman Catholic (15) Jehovah’s Witness (11) My parents were both raised as Catholics, but they had given it up by the time I came along. My mom wound up with more new agey beliefs and my dad was agnostic. They taught me to decide for myself what I wanted to believe, and I guess I kinda chose “none of the above.” ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/126 "2005-11-05T08:25:05Z")
Sucular Humanism 100% Nontheist 90% Unitarian Universalism 89% These unitarians seem very wishy-washy given the definition at the website. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/127 "2005-11-05T09:28:16Z")
I got 0% for every religion. I was not surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/128 "2005-11-05T12:17:56Z")
1. Eastern Orthodox (100%) 2. Roman Catholic (100%) 3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (88%) 4. Orthodox Quaker (85%) 5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (79%) 6. Seventh Day Adventist (78%) 7. Orthodox Judaism (66%) 8. Sikhism (62%) 9. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (60%) 10. Islam (60%) 11. Liberal Quakers (60%) 12. Bahá’í Faith (54%) 13. Reform Judaism (51%) 14. Unitarian Universalism (50%) 15. Hinduism (50%) 16. Mahayana Buddhism (39%) 17. Jehovah’s Witness (37%) 18. Theravada Buddhism (37%) 19. Neo-Pagan (36%) 20. Jainism (35%) 21. New Age (29%) 22. Scientology (27%) 23. Secular Humanism (26%) 24. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (24%) 25. New Thought (23%) 26. Taoism (23%) 27. Nontheist (20%) I really disagree with the Unitarian Universalism percentage. I would have pegged myself at about 37%, tops. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/129 "2005-11-05T20:16:28Z")
Here’s how my results came out- 1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (85%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (82%) 4. Orthodox Quaker (80%) 5. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (61%) 6. Reform Judaism (60%) 7. Secular Humanism (60%) 8. Eastern Orthodox (55%) 9. Roman Catholic (55%) 10. ``` Mahayana Buddhism (54%) ``` 11. ``` Theravada Buddhism (53%) ``` 12. ``` New Age (52%) ``` 13. ``` Neo-Pagan (51%) ``` Interesting, I was rasied Catholic,but I don’t care about ceremonies, and I have a real problem with blind faith and unquestioning obedience. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/130 "2005-11-06T00:05:56Z")
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (95%) 3. Liberal Quakers (91%) Personally, I think my first two results should be reversed… although actually, I would have prefered to be listed as “none of the above”. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/131 "2005-11-06T01:30:23Z")
Yes No Yes No Yes No 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (85%) 3. Liberal Quakers (85%) 4. Theravada Buddhism (81%) 5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (76%) 6. Neo-Pagan (66%) 7. Nontheist (60%) 8. Taoism (59%) 9. Mahayana Buddhism (58%) 10. New Age (52%) 11. Sikhism (51%) 12. Jainism (45%) 13. Reform Judaism (44%) 14. Bahá’í Faith (44%) 15. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (40%) 16. Orthodox Quaker (38%) 17. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (36%) 18. Hinduism (36%) 19. New Thought (32%) 20. Scientology (30%) 21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (28%) 22. Jehovah’s Witness (25%) 23. Seventh Day Adventist (18%) 24. Orthodox Judaism (17%) 25. Eastern Orthodox (16%) 26. Islam (16%) 27. Roman Catholic (16%) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/132 "2005-11-06T04:17:33Z")
1. \*\*Neo-Pagan (100%) \*\* :dubious: 2. \*\*Liberal Quakers (99%) \*\*Born and raised, but I left the faith 20 years ago. 3. \*\*Unitarian Universalism (98%) \*\*Okay. 4. **Secular Humanism (88%)** Getting closer. 5. **New Age (87%)** :eek: So, where’s the wishy-washy agnostic catagory? ---
**Author:** ![Waterman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Waterman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waterman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/133 "2005-11-06T04:51:35Z")
1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (96%) ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/134 "2005-11-06T05:14:08Z")
This thing is indeed poorly designed. My Top Six: UU 100% Liberal Quaker 98% Mainline Lib Christian Protestant 95% Secular Humanism 81% Reform JUdaism 78% My “birth religion,” Roman Catholicism, is Number 25 with 32% (third to last) and in last place, at number 27, is Seventh Day Adventism with 24% ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/135 "2005-11-06T12:29:34Z")
My Top 5: 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Neo-Pagan (99%) 3. Liberal Quakers (96%) 4. New Age (91%) 5. Secular Humanism (88%) Pretty much what I expected…except for the Quaker thing…dunno wtf that comes from. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/136 "2005-11-06T14:32:28Z")
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Theravada Buddhism (99%) 3. Secular Humanism (96%) 4. Nontheist (90%) 5. Liberal Quakers (79%) How’d I get that? Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/137 "2005-11-06T16:05:03Z")
1. Nontheist (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (100%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (86%) 4. Theravada Buddhism (65%) 5. Liberal Quakers (49%) 6. Neo-Pagan (29%) 7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (26%) 8. Taoism (16%) 9. New Age (8%) I can live with that! I fully agree with **MacTech** though as > [@](#): > > i consider myself a Scientific Athiest, if i was _forced_ to choose a religion at gunpoint, i’d probably go Eastern (like Buddhiism) is very nearly the exact same thing I said to a friend the other day. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/138 "2005-11-06T17:00:05Z")
So much going on in this thread! For one thing, I had no idea that Shodan was Jewish. 😉 I do think the test is somewhat flawed. Despite self-identifying as an atheist, my answers that a belief set should include taking care of other humans and the environment put me in the Secular Humanist set. Apparently, that matters more than my steadfast denial of the existence of God – even though the site itself says that “Belief in Deity” is “Not considered important” for Secular Humanists, (I said my lack of belief was important), and it’s the only characteristic given for Nontheists. I suspect a flaw in the scoring algorithm. 1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (92%) 3. Nontheist (78%) 4. Liberal Quakers (75%) 5. Theravada Buddhism (73%) 6. Neo-Pagan (64%) 7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (58%) 8. Taoism (50%) 9. New Age (47%) 10. ``` Reform Judaism (42%) ``` 11. ``` Mahayana Buddhism (38%) ``` 12. ``` Orthodox Quaker (34%) ``` 13. ``` Scientology (27%) ``` 14. ``` Sikhism (26%) ``` 15. ``` New Thought (25%) ``` 16. ``` Bahá'í Faith (21%) ``` 17. ``` Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (21%) ``` 18. ``` Jainism (20%) ``` 19. ``` Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (17%) ``` 20. ``` Seventh Day Adventist (17%) ``` 21. ``` Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (16%) ``` 22. ``` Hinduism (13%) ``` 23. ``` Eastern Orthodox (11%) ``` 24. ``` Islam (11%) ``` 25. ``` Orthodox Judaism (11%) ``` 26. ``` Roman Catholic (11%) ``` 27. ``` Jehovah's Witness (5%) ``` I find it interesting that the JWs are taking a horrible beating in the not-all-all-valid-for-scientific-purposes sample we have thus far. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/139 "2005-11-06T23:50:45Z")
**1. Neo-Pagan (100%)** That’s me alright. **2. Unitarian Universalism (86%)** Eh. Never attracted me. **3. Mahayana Buddhism (86%)** Life is suffering? Yeah. Enlightenment attainable? … Not so sure. **4. New Age (75%)** NO! DAMMIT! I heartily abjure all silly woo-woo stuff! **5. Reform Judaism (74%)** … How does this work with the whole polytheism thing again?? ---
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095/140 "2005-11-07T05:55:26Z")
1. New Thought (100%) 2. New Age (99%) 3. Neo-Pagan (92%) 4. Scientology (92%) 5. Mahayana Buddhism (89%) Interesting. I’ve taken this test a couple of times before, and always came out with Universal Unitarianism as #1 (it came out #6 this time). I guess I changed a few answers this time. The thing I don’t like about this test is that it doesn’t even consider Deism. I can’t be the only one left! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-amusing-religion-test-what-religion-are-you-post-results/329095.md?page=8)