Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (94%)
Seventh Day Adventist (88%)
Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (72%)
Hinduism (63%)
Orthodox Judaism (61%)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (58%)
Islam (55%)
Bahá’í Faith (55%)
Sikhism (55%)
Liberal Quakers (51%)
Jehovah’s Witness (49%)
Unitarian Universalism (43%)
Reform Judaism (39%)
Jainism (37%)
Mahayana Buddhism (34%)
Theravada Buddhism (33%)
Neo-Pagan (30%)
Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (28%)
Scientology (25%)
New Age (24%)
New Thought (22%)
Secular Humanism (17%)
Nontheist (16%)
Taoism (13%)
How do you end up with 16% nontheist if you say that belief in a triune God is central to you? And how come I’m 49% JW?! Otherwise, it’s as expected. Some of the questions don’t have enough options.
Interesting. We have Sikh witnesses in our court from time to time. I know very little about Sikhism, but would like to know more - and to know your perspective on it. What, in a paragraph or two, is Sikhism, and why are you an adherent?
1. Reform Judaism (100%) (Which is exactly what I am)
2. Liberal Quakers (86%) (I blame this on growing up in Pennsylvania)
3. Orthodox Judaism (82%) (Makes sense)
4. Unitarian Universalism (79%)
5. Bahá’í Faith (78%)
6. Islam (78%)
7. Sikhism (74%)
8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (71%) (I don’t understand this one)
9. Jainism (67%) (I’ve actually never heard of this one)
10. Mahayana Buddhism (66%)
11. Neo-Pagan (58%)
12. New Age (57%)
13. Theravada Buddhism (56%)
14. New Thought (51%)
15. Hinduism (51%)
16. Orthodox Quaker (50%) (Again, the Pennsylvania thing)
17. Secular Humanism (43%)
18. Scientology (42%) (!!!)
19. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (41%)
20. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (40%)
Not really. I got the same thing (and I’m in fact EO), and most Orthodox people I know who’ve taken it have got the same thing. Both Catholics and Orthodox would answer virtually identically to the test’s questions.
The repetition of some variation of the above statement is getting my undies in a bunch.
It’s a logical fallacy - they’re not saying you are x% anything. They’re saying your stated beliefs/attitudes are x% **in agreement with ** the stated beliefs/attitudes of the groups in question.
Example: suppose I answered “disagree” to the question about believing that divorce should be restricted and/or punished. Well, I’d show at least some degree of agreement with atheists, Buddhists, neo-pagans, whatever - even though I’m not any of those things.
Some of the questions ought to allow more specific distinctions. For instane, I did click on
Some suffering is a state of mind rather than related to events taking place in the physical world. But I don’t believe that “only our spiritual nature is real.”
Before you go rolling your eyes at me, please explain how the “stated beliefs” of atheists are anything more than lack of belief in a god. Divorce questions or any other issues shouldn’t affect anything. I endorsed no statement that posited the existence in a god or gods, and endorsed all that stated one didn’t exist. Nevertheless I am only 70% nontheist. Which means they’re adding more than they should to the definition of a nontheist.
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?
