# What's your faith?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071>\
**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:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ewdlorr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@Ewdlorr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ewdlorr)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/61 "2001-09-27T15:26:54Z")

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My top 10:

1. Liberal Protestant (100%)  
\*\*2. Eastern Orthodox (80%) \*\*
2. Roman Catholic (80%)
3. Liberal Quaker (80%)
4. Orthodox Quaker (76%)
5. Conservative Protestant (73%)
6. Latter-day Saint (Mormon) (72%)
7. Reform Judaism (70%)
8. Bahá’í (65%)
9. Sikhism (64%)

Wow, it got me pretty close – but maybe I should consider converting to a Liberal Protestant faith? Hmmm…

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**Author:** ![niwroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@niwroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/niwroc)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/62 "2001-09-28T06:38:43Z")

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Interesting. Top 7:

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Secular Humanism (93%)
3. Liberal Protestant (91%)
4. Liberal Quaker (87%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (77%)
6. Neo-Paganism (75%)
7. Atheism and Agnosticism (71%)

With the exception of #7, I don’t know what these are!

Thanks for the link.

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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/63 "2001-09-28T10:30:08Z")

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Well that was utterly craptastic.

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Secular Humanism (98%)
3. Liberal Quaker (84%)
4. Liberal Protestant (83%)
5. Atheism and Agnosticism (78%)

Puh-leeze. UU under this definition is Christianity: The whitewash.

Secular Humanism: Save the world now by joining our associatn.

Liberal Quakers and Protestants: Um, hello? I don’t believe in God, so how do these make the top 5?

And Atheists?

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> Atheists’ beliefs are similar to those of the Secular Humanists but do not necessarily include the emphasis on humanity’s ability to improve the human condition.

Listen bub, if you check off the ‘don’t believe’ box, this should be ahead of everything else-- because there’s nothing left to disagree with!

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**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-faith/75071/64 "2001-09-28T14:08:48Z")

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1. Theravada Buddhism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (95%)
3. Liberal Quaker (88%)
4. Liberal Protestant (80%)
5. Secular Humanism (75%)  
Well that makes sense, since I have been studying Buddhism and knew what to pick.

Quiz aside, in real life I’ve been reading about Buddhism, along with Stephen Batchelor’s ‘Buddhism Without Beliefs’ which posits that you can still use the Buddhist philosophy as a guiding philosophy without having to believe in karma, rebirth, and such, which appeals to me.

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