OT: Check out this interesting religious site

Triathlon Forum
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A friend of mine turned me on to this extremely interesting site. It is not a specific religious site but rather a site that enables you to explore your own beliefs and the beliefs of others.

The most fascinating thing on the site is the “Belief-o-Matic” (in the upper left hand corner) which uses a series of questions to help determine your religion. It is very interesting and thought provoking.

When I did it I found out my beliefs are identical to some bizarre Iranian religion I had never heard of.

I hope you guys find it interesting given all the di=scussions we have on this forum related to this topic.

http://www.belief.net/

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I don’t think the Baha’i would like their religion characterized as “bizarre” :slight_smile:

Interesting site - has me pegged pretty well as liberal Protestant
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Unitarian Universalists
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How did you know??? Now that is bizarre!

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Tried it, It said the exact religion I am, Buddhist so for me it worked :slight_smile:
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Interesting : Unitarian Universalism 100%

               Secular Humanism 99% 

               Liberal Quakers 94%

What is particular interesting is that my very least religion is Roman Catholism at 21%. This was the religion that was in my background but that I walked away fom at a very young age.

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Interesting. I came up as Unitarian Universalism (100%). My personal tendencies lean towards Buddhism, which came up 4th and 5th.

Interesting observations:

I was born and raised Catholic, and that was ranked lowest on my results, along with several other Christian denominations. Hmmm.

After viewing my results, I clicked “Back”, then “View my results” again, and got a different #1 answer.

For more interesting polls, check out emode.com. They have everything from a fairly accurate IQ test to a test that determines what kind of dog you are.

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I’ll take a walk to the secular humanist side of the room too.

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I was raised in a Unitarian church. The best description goes like this - A Unitarian comes to a fork in the road. One sign reads, “This way to heaven”. The other sign reads, “This way to a discussion about heaven”. The Unitarian will take that road every time.

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“Invalid operand, please try again later.”
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  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
  2. Liberal Quakers (96%)

Wow - seem to be a lot of Unitarian Universalisms. I have no idea what this means - need to do some research apparently - but based on frogonawire’s description…sounds just like me.

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**1. ** Reform Judaism (100%)

Althought I’m a little skeptical about the whole notion of God, but for the most part that is correct.

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do you think it might be a scam by the Unitarian Universalisms to recruit new members?

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Wow!

Orthodox Quaker 100% (don’t know anything about them)

Islam 84% (I believe that a real man of Islam is a good man)

Orthodox Judaism 84% (don’t know much about them either)

That is intresting cuz I went to a private Lutheran school K through 5th grade and was fairly active in the church all through my teens.

jaretj

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"do you think "

Even though I batted 100% I know absolutely nothing about the Unitarians. I do remember my mother(a recovering Catholic) telling me years ago that if she ever started going to church again it would be Unitarian. I’ll have to look into them out of my own curiousity.

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“do you think it might be a scam by the Unitarian Universalisms to recruit new members?”

it’s been my experience that Unitarians, as a group, are naive, not devious!

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Q: What do Unitarians burn in your front yard?

A: A question mark.

(I was married in a U.U. church)

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Universal Unitarian - 100%

Liberal Quaker - 90% (perhaps this goes to explain my severe addiction to oatmeal…???)

The whole thing - labelling one’s beliefs - too kooky…

Interesting though…thanks Tom!!!

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Another universal unitarian or unitarian universal. Could this mean a semi-agnostic?
Larry

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Buddhism
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