Any other neo-pagans out there? Unitarian Universalism a close second at 99%.
Larry
Thanks for sharing Tom. I’m in the midst of sorting through my thoughts on faith, religion and my interaction with both.
I’m not too surprised by some of the results, such as Buddhism being so high on my list and Roman Catholic being so low.
Here is what Belief-O-Matic told me:
- Jainism (100%)
- Sikhism (99%)
- Reform Judaism (97%)
- Unitarian Universalism (94%)
- Liberal Quakers (92%)
- Mahayana Buddhism (91%)
- Theravada Buddhism (87%)
- Neo-Pagan (86%)
- Hinduism (81%)
- Orthodox Judaism (78%)
- Bahá’í Faith (76%)
- New Age (75%)
- Islam (68%)
- Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)
- Taoism (65%)
- Orthodox Quaker (64%)
- New Thought (58%)
- Secular Humanism (58%)
- Scientology (56%)
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (40%)
- Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (38%)
- Seventh Day Adventist (37%)
- Nontheist (35%)
- Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (34%)
- Jehovah’s Witness (30%)
- Eastern Orthodox (21%)
- Roman Catholic (21%)
How did you know??? Now that is bizarre!
The Bahai just know. And we know where you live…
(Actually, since Zoroastrianism wasn’t on there, it was pretty much the only possibility)
For me the resutls were:
Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant** (100%) **
Right in line with the church that I attend.
Weird. I came up Reform Judaism (which I was born and raised as).
It’s weird because I no longer go to synagogue, and classify myself as “lapsed”. Guess I’m only lapsed in practice, not beliefs.
Moderate to liberal mainline Protestant - 100%
My family’s religion, and mine growing up - maybe they were right all along.
Liberal Quaker - 95%
The predominant religion in my small Indiana hometown. Most of my classmates belonged, and I never had any awkward religious moments with them. (plenty of awkward moments, just not religious ones)
Roman Catholic - 20%
My wife’s religion, and I go to church with her probably 95% of the time. But I’ve never joined, and I’ve always felt uncomfortable there - like I’m a fraud and Someone is going to smite me with a lightning bolt.
For such a quick survey, that’s a scary degree of accuracy in my case.
The tough thing on a quiz like this is responding with intellectual honesty. The conditioning of upbringing and practice often produce answers conforming to those standards. Life and maturity often change a person’s underlying beliefs. But off the cuff, many people will revert to conditioned responses without carefully consideration.
Well, since I’m using a computer I probably won’t qualify as a Quaker, but the rest sounds correct.
Can you explain that one to me? Quakers aren’t Amish, you know.
My high school: http://www.georgeschool.org/ There’s a link to Quakerism on the front page, if you are interested.
Interesting. Classified me as
**1. ** **<u>Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist)</u> (100%) **
which seems to be the closest pigeonhole to my training (theoretical physics) I suppose. Reading on what Christian Science espouses though I find myself disagreeing with quite a few of its tenets; I’d take these findings with a sizable grain of salt.
John
I came out 100% Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), which I am. So at least I know my religion. I would be a little worried (not really) if it came up different since I am very active in my religion.
Bob
I’m another Unitarian person (100%). I was raised a Roman Catholic but it only scored 11%. Oh how the mightly have fallen…
I just read the Unitarian description, and it seems that the religious aspects of it are all over the place. Nearly evey category is “Diverse beliefs” and the only category which determines that you are a Unitarian is “Contemporary Issues”.
I am now amish…and it turns out Zipp makes buggy wheels…whoo hoo!
I am a Secular Humanist! I don’t know nor care what that means. I like athiest better.
That’s a double ditto for me, course being raised as C of E makes atheist the standard response anyway!
Any dyslexic atheists on-line now wondering if there is a Dog?
Need to add this question to cover me:
In regard to snakes used during worship:
a. Copperheads are only used by the Spawn of Satan, only rattlesnakes allowed.
b. Copperheads may be used in place of rattlers if no rattlers available.
c. If bitten, keep dancin’.
d. No snake, no glory.
The importance of this question to me:
O High O Medium O Low
Secular humanism also.
Unless and until someone can convince me otherwise, religion seems to me to be just one way to keep everyone in line and encourage people to be nice to one another (think back to social contract theory). And that’s not a bad thing.
Without wishing to make this a flamer, religion is also the reason for more wars, and deaths within, than any other.
I know, but I’d like to think that war and fanaticism are perversions of the true purpose of most religions.
**Without wishing to make this a flamer, religion is also the reason for more wars, and deaths within, than any other. **
Well, without wishing to flame you in return, that’s just flat wrong.
Which of the major wars of the 20th century was religious?
There were 20 centuries before the last one. Try adding up the deaths from the Crusades on and you will find the answer or you could add the other previous 11 to my tally to strengthen the case for!