Wow! I'm a Quaker! I had no idea!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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According to this What Religion Are You quiz.

Ok, actually only 98% Orthodox Quaker and 95% Reform Quaker. I’m 100% Liberal Christian and only 70% Conservative Evangelical Christian (which might explain my differences with Assemblies of God).

The real shocker to me though was that I was more Hindu - 87% than Buddhist - 85%, and more of each of these than Conservative Evangelical Christian (As well as my differences with the Babtist church, I tend to disagree with a lot of people).

That and the Quaker thing blows my mind. I don’t even like oatmeal.

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I didn’t like the quiz, or how it determines its results.

#1, the directions for the last four pages were only given in the fifth to last page once; they were important enough that they should have been repeated on each applicable page.

#2, the only thing I answered something other than Not Applicable or atheistic/agnostic to was that we should do good, and my top three were UU (100%), Secular Humanist (98%) and Buddhist (90%), which I have many disagreements with. Non-theist (and how can you differentiate this and Secular Humanist?) scored 85%. Percentages dropped off quite precipitously after that.

3

I am a 100% Reform Jew!

How am I going to break the news to Father Joe?

4

Yep, I came up with the same as you, more or less. 100% Liberal to Mainline Protestant (which is what I am), 93% Liberal Quaker, and 92% Orthodox Quaker. To be honest, I always thought of myself on the conservative wing of mainline Protestantism due to my theology, but I guess not- cause I’m only 62% Evangelical/Conservative Protestant. Must be my liberal social views or something!

What really surprised me is that I have more in common with Seventh Day Adventists than conservative Protestants. And apparently just as much in common with Roman Catholics as Secular Humanists!

5

To no one’s surprise except for 2-

  1. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (100%)
  2. Orthodox Quaker (93%)
  3. Eastern Orthodox (90%)
  4. Roman Catholic (90%)

Re 2, I am sure I put a strongly disagree to the Nonviolence Q, though if I accidentally hit agree, that would explain it.

Btw, nd_n8, I’m AoG, but have some real differences myself (I’m the most liberal person in my AoG, but still far to the right of the rest of society. L)

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No real suprises for me. Though I didn’t really care for the obvious focus on the christian faiths, it was a little in your face to have up to 3 of 5 choices directly relate to that.

And my top 10…

  1. Unitarian Universalist, 100%
  2. Neo-Pagan, 98%
  3. Liberal Quaker 88%
  4. Mahayana Buddhism, 85%
  5. New Age, 85%
  6. Secular Humanism, 76%
  7. Theravada Buddhism, 69%
  8. Jainism, 68%
  9. Reform Judaism, 68%
  10. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestant, 67%
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Here’s my top 5

  1. Secular Humanism (100%)
  2. Nontheist (91%)
  3. Unitarian Universalism (91%)
  4. Theravada Buddhism (69%)
  5. Liberal Quakers (68%)
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While the quiz strikes me a badly done, the questions are kind of interesting.

  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  2. Secular Humanism (97%)
  3. Libral Quakers (92%)
  4. Neo-pagan (87%)
  5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (84%)

Hmm. Maybe the Quakers need to take a good look at the membership here.

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100% Unitarian
94% Theravada Buddhist

Om.

10

I’m 100% atheist, but that doesn’t even seem to be an option in the results.

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From religioustolerance.org

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Me too! My top 10:

  1. Reform Judaism (100%)
  2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (89%)
  3. Liberal Quakers (86%)
  4. Neo-Pagan (81%)
  5. Bahá’í Faith (80%)
  6. Unitarian Universalism (78%)
  7. Sikhism (72%)
  8. New Age (68%)
  9. Mahayana Buddhism (67%)
  10. Orthodox Judaism (67%)
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Although I self identify as an atheist, this quiz says:

  1. Secular Humanism (100%)
  2. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  3. Theravada Buddhism (94%)
  4. Nontheist (88%)

So, do I have to start getting up early on Sundays now? :confused:

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Sorry - you have to start getting up early EVERY day now. :wink:

15

Yes. Secular Humanism requires you to play fantasy football.

16

I already do, except for Sundays, goddamnit!

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Well, I’m a 100% match for Reform Judaism:

  1. Reform Judaism (100%)
  2. Unitarian Universalism (82%)
  3. Liberal Quakers (80%)
  4. Sikhism (77%)
  5. Orthodox Judaism (75%)
  6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (74%)
  7. Neo-Pagan (73%)
  8. Bahá’í Faith (71%)
  9. Islam (71%)
  10. New Thought (69%)

  11. Scientology (67%)

I really don’t think so.

18

Dammit. I’m 95% scientologist.

I feel… unclean.

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That will be $500 for the auditing session. Please pay the cashier on your way out.

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I think secular humanism covers “atheists or agnostics who are still good people”. “Nontheist” probably covers generic atheists.

My results were pretty accurate:

  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  2. Secular Humanism (95%)
  3. Liberal Quakers (88%)
  4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (78%)
  5. Theravada Buddhism (78%)
  6. Taoism (73%)
  7. Neo-Pagan (73%)
  8. Nontheist (71%)
  9. New Age (69%)
  10. Mahayana Buddhism (69%)

Although after that comes Scientology! :smack:

I wonder if thinks like the Slack religion (Discordianism?) and Satanism and Jello cults are options.