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

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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100% secular humanist
95% UU

No surprises there.

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100% Neo Pagan and 98% UU. Who’da guessed? I find it intriguing that I identify closely with many people in this thread…silly quiz wise, anyway. Birds of a feather and all that.
I was only 3% with the JW’s. This comes as no surprise to me.

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Who knew?

  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  2. Neo-Pagan (90%)
  3. Liberal Quakers (86%)
  4. New Age (80%)
  5. Secular Humanism (73%)
  6. Mahayana Buddhism (71%)

I tend to look :dubious: at New Agers, so I was surprised at that.

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I’m not at all surprised to score 100% as a Secular Humanist.

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I had some issues with the questions as well, but it came out fairly accurate, I guess.

Top five:

  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) (Although I have NO idea what this is!)
  2. Secular Humanism (99%)
  3. Neo-Pagan (92%)
  4. Theravada Buddhism (91%)
  5. Liberal Quakers (86%)

Bottom five:

  1. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant  (21%)

  2. Eastern Orthodox (17%)

  3. Islam (17%)

  4. Roman Catholic (17%)

  5. Jehovah's Witness (10%)
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I took this, emailed it to the guy I’ve been seeing and he called and we discussed our results. It devolved into an argument about which ones we give validation to and why and ended awkwardly.

Gosh, who would have thought that religion could cause a fight between people? I just don’t get it. It’s not like this has ever happened to anyone before…

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Heh, heh.

Ain’t that the truth.

So, dude, you know that saying about us Episcopalians?

“Whenever four are gathered in My name, there’s always a fifth!”

Yes, I know; I’m hilarious. :smiley:

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  1. Secular Humanism (100%)
  2. Unitarian Universalism (90%)
  3. Theravada Buddhism (78%)
  4. Liberal Quakers (75%)
  5. Neo-Pagan (69%)
  6. Nontheist (69%)
  7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (57%)
  8. New Age (54%)
  9. Taoism (53%)
  10. Reform Judaism (43%)

“Mainline Protestants?” Are these Protestants who are found near the Pittsburgh/Philadelphia railroad? Or simply Protestants who do a lot of heroin? I suppose that one could be both (quite easily in fact, especially out near Philly). As it happens, I did grow up east of Pittsburgh; however, I have never done heroin. Now I’m worried that this may have stunted my spiritual growth. I wonder if a buprenorphine prescription counts.

On the down side, apparently I have only a 3% correlation with Roman Catholicism. Now how the hell am I supposed to keep the vampires away?

According to the site, secular humanists have 'no concept of “evil.” ’ Great, another thing I’ve managed to screw up. Sorry for letting you down, fellow secularists. I’ll work on that.

On the other hand, perhaps I shouldn’t overestimate the religious insight of a quiz called “Belief-O-Matic.”

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How many Episcopalians does it take to change a lightbulb?

Two answers:

First: Four. One to call the Sexton. One to mix the drinks. Two to stand around and talk about how much better they liked the old lightbulb.

Second: CHANGE! Why should we CHANGE! Why, my GRANDMOTHER gave that lightbulb to this church!

I’m equally hilarious. :smiley:

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  1. Secular Humanism (100%)
  2. Unitarian Universalism (94%)
  3. Liberal Quakers (82%)
  4. Nontheist (71%)
  5. Neo-Pagan (70%)
  6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)
  7. Theravada Buddhism (68%)
  8. New Age (60%)
  9. Taoism (53%)
  10. Mahayana Buddhism (50%)

I’ve taken this several times over the last few years and the top 10 is relatively constant, although the order often changes up. I wish the test would include animist sensibilities; I’m attracted to my understanding of certain AmerIndian beliefs but they don’t even merit a mention in this survey.

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100% Neo-Pagan.

I will burn you in a wicker man.

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Oh my God, son, yes you are. :smiley:

I’m tellin’ those jokes at dinner this Sunday. Outstanding.

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  1. Secular Humanism (100%)
  2. Unitarian Universalism (92%)
  3. Liberal Quakers (79%)
  4. Theravada Buddhism (74%)
  5. Nontheist (71%)
  6. Neo-Pagan (67%)
  7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (65%)
  8. New Age (57%)
  9. Taoism (54%)
  10. Reform Judaism (50%)

I agree with the secular humanism, from what descriptions I’ve read of that. Not so sure about the Unitarian Universalism bit, but maybe. The Reform Judaism is probably genetic – officially, unless my grandma’s deathbed confession was true, my maternal grandfather was a London-born Jew. I’m glad No. 7 isn’t higher than it is – been saying to enough people I’m not a Christian. Good to see that’s still holding true.

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I’ve seen this quiz before, and while it correctly said I was either Catholic or Eastern Orthodox, I thought the questions were SO specific, SO focused on matters of doctrine that most people (even very religious people) rarely think about, that it was bound to put you in the religion you already think you belong in.

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So has anyone gone to a Quaker church to find out what its all about?

Looks like they should have about 50 new adherents just from this thread.

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  1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
  2. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (83%)
  3. Orthodox Quaker (82%)
  4. Orthodox Judaism (73%)
  5. Liberal Quakers (72%)
  6. Reform Judaism (72%)
  7. Islam (71%)
  8. Eastern Orthodox (70%)
  9. Roman Catholic (70%)

Now, there were no questions about Apostolic Authority for example… and there were, as it’s bound to happen, several where “my” answer was nowhere in sight (I believe that everybody can be saved after death, but not that everybody will, as that would undermine feewill).

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What “it” is all about? That’s just the point. There ISN’t any agreed upon “it” in the Society of Friends. They have no fixed doctrines. They have no fixed, structured worship services.

Are they “Christian”? Depends on how flexible your definition is. Some Quakers think Jesus was divine, some don’t, and hardly any think it’s important enough to fight over.

In many (not all, of course) Quaker congregations, political liberalism is far more important than belief in God.

In all seriousness, a Quaker is more likely to be frowned upon in his congregation for saying “My son is joining the Army” than for saying “There is no God.”

The SDMB naturally attracts a lot of left wingers with only vague spiritual beliefs. A quiz like this is bound to steer many to the Quakers or Unitarians.

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  1. Secular Humanism (100%)
  2. Unitarian Universalism (97%)
  3. Theravada Buddhism (83%)
  4. Liberal Quakers (82%)
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  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  2. Liberal Quakers (94%)
  3. Neo-Pagan (94%)
  4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (90%)
  5. New Age (88%)
  6. Reform Judaism (80%)
  7. Mahayana Buddhism (75%)
  8. Secular Humanism (73%)
  9. Theravada Buddhism (73%)
  10. New Thought (67%)

Interesting results, considering I haven’t thought about what I am for ages. But I do doubt that I’m actually 94% neo-pagan.

And not at all sure what the UU is?

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http://www.religioustolerance.org/u-u1.htm

Basically a non-dogmatic religion - many UUs don’t even believe in God - others however are Christian. Like the Quakers above, we have certain liberal political leanings - generally speaking - and tend to value social justice.

(There are UU Republicans - not too many - but they exist).