# What's your faith? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 6, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071 "2001-08-06T04:16:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/41 "2001-08-07T01:11:53Z")
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal Quaker (98%) 3. Liberal Protestant (94%) \*\*4. Neo-Paganism (94%) \*\* 4. New Age (89%) 5. Secular Humanism (81%) 6. Bahá’í (74%) 7. Mahayana Buddhism (68%) 8. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (68%) 9. Taoism (67%) ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/42 "2001-08-07T03:28:39Z")
You are all closet UU’s! Come out, come out, wherever you are! 😃 One thing I find funny - you can be UU _and_ be something else (Hindu, Christian, Pagan, etc.), so you could conceivably be both your #1 and #2 slots. 🙂 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/43 "2001-08-07T03:39:29Z")
My top 5: 1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (99%) 3. Atheism and Agnosticism (85%) 4. Liberal Quaker (85%) 5. Liberal Protestant (82%) interesting. I’ve never thought of being a Quaker. And number six is Theravadan Buddhism. I identify as atheist, so it’s good that that’s in the list. ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/44 "2001-08-07T03:54:46Z")
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t UU’s pretty wacko about receiving medical attention? And where does it stop? They’ll go to the dentist, they’ll use a Band-Aids so they don’t bleed all over the keyboard but they won’t get an operation to remove a malignant tumor from their liver. :rolleyes: My friend’s mom was UU and wouldn’t have an operation that could potentially save her life and she died. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/45 "2001-08-07T05:05:45Z")
Hmm, my top five. I’d peg my beliefs as kind of a blend of a few of my top scoring faiths. 1. Liberal Protestant (100%) 2. Orthodox Quaker (82%) 3. Liberal Quaker (78%) 4. Conservative Protestant (77%) 5. Unitarian Universalism (74%) ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/46 "2001-08-07T06:17:51Z")
**wishbone** , UUs don’t have anything against modern medicine. Maybe you’re thinking of [Christian Scientists](http://www.tfccs.com/)? ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/47 "2001-08-08T06:43:47Z")
Indeed, what little doctrine we UU’s have is flimsy enough - there are certainly no medical requirements involved. Aside from Christian Scientists, you might also be thinking of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who do not allow blood transfusions (IIRC). We’re all just liberal ex-hippies. 🙂 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/48 "2001-08-08T17:57:14Z")
1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (99%) 3. Liberal Quaker (89%) 4. Liberal Protestant (84%) 5. Theravada Buddhism (82%) Well, la dee da. ---
**Author:** ![cichlidiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cichlidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cichlidiot)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/49 "2001-08-08T19:08:50Z")
Results, and a question: 1.Secular Humanism (100%) 2.Unitarian Universalism (99%) 3.Liberal Quaker (84%) 4.Athesim and Agnosticism (78%) 5.Liberal Protestant (96%) Under Unitarians it says, “Some congregations are formed for those who share a common belief, e.g. Christianity.” I sort of wondered why the other congregations were formed? I think of myself as an atheist, and I can’t really imagine getting together on a certain day every week with other atheists to talk about our lack of belief(s). I’ve had interesting conversations with atheists (with theists and agnostics, too), so I guess I’m just curious about what else Unitarians would discuss (for specific purpose in a church), if not theism? ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/50 "2001-08-09T03:23:05Z")
100% Grade A Liberal Proddie. (…Liberal!?) My father would crap Coke bottles! ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/51 "2001-08-09T06:07:33Z")
My top 5: 1. Liberal Quaker (100%) 2. Liberal Protestant (93%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (92%) 4. Bahá’í (83%) **5. Reform Judaism (70%)** The idea of being a Quaker has never occurred to me. And my last 5: 23. Latter-day Saint (Mormon) (35%) 24. Eastern Orthodox (35%) 25. Roman Catholic (35%) 26. Atheism and Agnosticism (30%) 27. Jehovah’s Witness (30%) No arguments from me about #27, but #26 surprised me a bit. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/52 "2001-08-10T05:32:36Z")
1. Liberal Quaker (100%) 2. Unitarian (91%) 3. Neo-Pagan (88%) The rest fell off pretty fast from there. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/53 "2001-08-11T12:40:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jomo Mojo \* > \*\*Maybe this Beliefnet quiz is going to be the way most folks hear about LQ in the first place. > > Do you suppose it was a Liberal Quaker who set up the test scoring? \*\* I knew it!!! Did I call it or did I call it? I had these guys pegged. You could tell all along it was a setup. Here is the Newsweek exposé: > [@](#): > > Liberal Quakers are a quiet bunch, and until recently, so was the Beliefnet Web page devoted to them. It got so few hits that tracking software didn’t pick it up. Now it’s one of Beliefnet’s top 50 links, thanks to Belief-O-Matic, a tongue-in-cheek quiz matching personal ideologies with established faiths. Editor Steven Waldman says the quiz pegs “a disproportionate number” of respondents as liberal Quakers. Suddenly, test takers have flooded Quaker groups with curious e-mail. “We used to send out two sample copies of our magazine a week,” says Trish Edwards-Konic, Quaker Life editor. “Now we send out 10.” Online forums are also buzzing with posts ranging from the newly converted to, well, the quizzical. ---
**Author:** ![Stellablue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@Stellablue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stellablue)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/54 "2001-08-11T15:16:49Z")
I need your help Dopers. Not too long ago I read a piece that was so funny and need to find it again. It was in the form of a customer satisfaction questionaire. It was how satisfied you are with your diety. It asked questions like- How did you find your diety? A. Burning bush B. the voices told me C. in a cereal box and many other funny questions. Anybody know of this and where I can find it? Thanks very much ---
**Author:** ![AMM9132](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@AMM9132](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AMM9132)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/55 "2001-08-11T19:59:59Z")
Conservative Protestant-100% Orthodox Quaker-96% Eastern Orthodox-92% Roman Catholic-92% ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/56 "2001-08-12T07:08:09Z")
1. Liberal Protestant (100%) 2. Liberal Quaker (95%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (93%) 4. Neo-Paganism (92%) 5. New Age (88%) OK, #2-5 I get. No surprise there. But #1 as Liberal Protestant? 100%? How odd. I took the test a second time (in case I made a mistake the first time) and came up with the same result. Go figure. I thought Protestants of any brand would at least believe in a personal God, which I don’t. Anyone care to fight my ignorance on this? rivulus ---
**Author:** ![NaSultainne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NaSultainne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NaSultainne)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/57 "2001-08-13T02:15:31Z")
I’m not EVEN posting my numbers! I scored LDS at #2 (gulp) and they crack me up! I’m losing my grip right in front of you… ---
**Author:** ![TheThill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheThill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheThill)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/58 "2001-09-27T15:07:47Z")
I just found the link and lo and behold, I “am” also a: 1. Liberal Quaker (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (97%) 3. Neo-Paganism (88%) 4. Secular Humanism (87%) 5. Liberal Protestant (84%) Didn’t come as a great surprise though, was already interested in the Quakers (liberal). ---
**Author:** ![TheThill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheThill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheThill)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/59 "2001-09-27T15:08:14Z")
I just found Jomo’s link and lo and behold, I “am” also a: 1. Liberal Quaker (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (97%) 3. Neo-Paganism (88%) 4. Secular Humanism (87%) 5. Liberal Protestant (84%) Didn’t come as a great surprise though, was already interested in the Quakers (liberal). ---
**Author:** ![TheThill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheThill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheThill)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/60 "2001-09-27T15:10:23Z")
Oops, I was afraid that that would happen due to the weird lag, but used the opportunity anyway to indirectly thank Jomo for the link. Thanks, Jomo! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071.md?page=4)