O.T. Beliefnet. Has anyone seen this before?

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Theravada Buddhism (89%)
3. Secular Humanism (88%)
4. Liberal Quakers (81%)
5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (78%)
6. Taoism (72%)
7. Nontheist (69%)


unitarian universalism = standard response for anyone who states "eh" for any question in the test. man, i am all about that secular humanism....
 
Your Results:
The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa.

Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.

How did the Belief-O-Matic do? Discuss your results on our message boards.



1.*
Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (100%)
2.*
Orthodox Judaism (97%)
3.*
Bahá'í Faith (96%)
4.*
Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (90%)
5.*
Islam (87%)
6.*
Eastern Orthodox (86%)
7.*
Roman Catholic (86%)
8.*
Sikhism (85%)
9.*
Hinduism (84%)
10.*
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (81%)
11.*
Seventh Day Adventist (79%)
12.*
Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (75%)
13.*
Jehovah's Witness (74%)
14.*
Jainism (72%)
15.*
Mahayana Buddhism (72%)
16.*
Theravada Buddhism (71%)
17.*
Orthodox Quaker (70%)
18.*
Reform Judaism (68%)
19.*
New Thought (66%)
20.*
Unitarian Universalism (66%)
21.*
Liberal Quakers (62%)
22.*
Scientology (60%)
23.*
Neo-Pagan (53%)
24.*
New Age (49%)
25.*
Nontheist (28%)
26.*
Secular Humanism (18%)
27.*
Taoism (18%)
 
1. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (100%)
2. Orthodox Quaker (89%)
3. Seventh Day Adventist (80%)
4. Eastern Orthodox (77%)
5. Roman Catholic (77%)
6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (66%)
7. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (57%)
8. Islam (54%)
9. Orthodox Judaism (54%)
10. Jehovah's Witness (47%)
11. Bahá'í Faith (42%)
12. Hinduism (38%)
13. Liberal Quakers (37%)
14. Sikhism (34%)
15. Unitarian Universalism (31%)
16. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (30%)
17. Jainism (30%)
18. Reform Judaism (29%)
19. Scientology (25%)
20. Mahayana Buddhism (24%)
21. Theravada Buddhism (24%)
22. Nontheist (22%)
23. New Thought (20%)
24. New Age (19%)
25. Neo-Pagan (18%)
26. Taoism (15%)
27. Secular Humanism (14%)

No real surprises to me~and I see I'm in good company. :D
 
1. Sikhism (100%)
2. Jainism (90%)
3. Orthodox Judaism (90%)
4. Bahá'í Faith (87%)
5. Hinduism (83%)
6. Reform Judaism (83%)
7. Islam (82%)
8. Neo-Pagan (80%)
9. Mahayana Buddhism (77%)
10. Unitarian Universalism (73%)
11. New Age (70%)
12. Liberal Quakers (66%)
13. New Thought (61%)
14. Scientology (61%)
15. Taoism (54%)
16. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (54%)
17. Theravada Buddhism (54%)
18. Orthodox Quaker (51%)
19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (49%)
20. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (46%)
21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (40%)
22. Secular Humanism (40%)
23. Eastern Orthodox (34%)
24. Jehovah's Witness (34%)
25. Nontheist (34%)
26. Roman Catholic (34%)
27. Seventh Day Adventist (30%)
 
Semper:
No, but Tom Cruise might be interested.
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YIKES!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Although that *would* probably be the closest I'd ever get to Nichole Kidman...
 
Although isn't it interesting that the Xtian faiths get many subcategories, yet "Neo-paganism" is expected to cover all pagan/heathen stuff. I can think of a dozen or so European heathen flavors, and 30 or more worldwide that I'd add (but the real q is how you can build a survey to differentiate, I guess, as many heathens do share similarities). Still, we've really left Baltic practitioners of Romuva out in the cold, so to speak.

The most exclusive religions will be the most divisive (and easy to test for), and the most inclusive (Tao, Neo-paganism, Universalism) will be harder to test for due to their more generally actuated beliefs.

For instance, if you are a "neo pagan" of the "Asatru" faith, yet you are "Gothlaus" (i.e. a 'Godless' Asatruar, kind if a Pagan Atheist who may still honor the ancestors, even the gods, just not feel bound by them) You could easily come up as Unitarian or Atheist/Agnostic.

Curiouser and curiouser....

Keith
 
They had Sikhism as a close No.4. The Sikh religion requires the carrying of a knife (Kirpan) How did they know I carry a knife? There were no questions about knives, were there? My No. 1 and No. 2 were Orthodox Judaism (100%) and Islam (89%) (Why can't we just get along) But I eat pork products 2-7 times a week which would exclude me from those religions. Why no dietary questions? That might make the results a little more accurate.

Thank you Yvsa for this one and the kilt thread

Kilt'n'Khuk... oops! I mean Terr
 
You see some things I didn't even see.

Another one: Certain devotoinals, jewellry, and pendants are worn by many faiths. Hindus often wear a silver or gold bracelet, Asatuar the Thorshammar, Any number of Judeo Christians may have a cross or star o' dave.

Also, no mention of sacrifice types. Almost all religions sacrifice something to their path, such as food, animals, milk, oil, spices, liquor, tobacco, weapons, tools, etc.

Also, no real mention of ancestor worship, which are especially key in Shinto and Asatru/Northern Heathern faiths (ie Modern Anglo-Seax religious adherents included).

Perhaps they need some input from us "fringers."
 
Hmmm, Interesting. says i'm a quaker, while i don't believe in initiating violence as a means towards my goals, i sure as hell believe in using it to defend. if anyone expects me to turn the other cheek, they'd best be figuring out how to sew up the holes in their carcass when it's over.
 
1) Hindu 100%
2) Neo Pagan
3) Mahayana Buddhist

Say WHAT!???

Last trip up ten or eleven days ago, Pala sent me home with a postcard sized altar/deity/ ----? card. Said it was the first Budda. to hang over bed for protection. It took me nearly two days of searching the computer to determine it was indeed Amitabha, rather than Shakyamuni.

I place little faith in it's accuracy as it gave me the highest scores in religions I have 0.002 % or less of knowlege of.

What the test's saving grace seems to me to be, is that the test shows how closely our answers match other folks from religions we haven't studied or which in the past seemed exotic indeed to us.

In short, how little practical difference there is between those who actually attempt to practice nearly any belief system. Put another way, a good heart is a good heart .

PS: don't take this too serious. I haven't had a second cup of coffee yet which means anything I said above is subject to radical rethinking after another cup or two.
 
1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
3. Liberal Quakers (91%)
4. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (89%)
5. Neo-Pagan (87%)
6. New Age (80%)
7. New Thought (78%)
8. Mahayana Buddhism (71%)
9. Theravada Buddhism (68%)
10. Bahá'í Faith (62%)

Eh? I don't believe in "God" as anything more than a spirit. Kinda like the spirit of Christmas (for example), or the spirit of charitable love.
 
Here here!

(Ya hindu neo-pagan, you!:D)

Seriously, tho: Hinduism (or at least the basis for it) started much of the pagan/heathen religions in Europe and Asia, according to Malory's _In Search of the Indo-Europeans_.

Okay, I'll take the dang test. Since I was a Christian by the parental units, then an Objectivist (a non-theist/humanist), then a Heathen, I'm interested 2c what I get from this techno-gagetry.

Keith
 
Seems to me, I recall a book jointly written by Thomas Merton and ? Suzuki on the eastern/zen influences in christianity. Not sure if in there, or if it was somewhere else, that a person suggested the three years before the "public life" time of Christ was spent in India, studying.

sheer speculation, but interesting to me.
 
Here they are 1-16:

1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (97%)
3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (86%)
4. Mahayana Buddhism (82%)
5. Liberal Quakers (77%)
6. New Age (76%)
7. Theravada Buddhism (72%)
8. New Thought (71%)
9. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (67%)
10. Hinduism (64%)
11. Taoism (62%)
12. Secular Humanism (59%)
13. Reform Judaism (57%)
14. Scientology (55%)
15. Bahá'í Faith (55%)
16. Sikhism (55%)

curiously, my last entry was: Islam (16%) . Interesting stuff. I didn't expect it to pick Neo-pagan as #1.

Keith
 
:)
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Neo-Pagan (93%)
3. Liberal Quakers (85%)
4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (84%)
5. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (83%)
6. New Thought (82%)
7. Scientology (80%)
8. New Age (76%)
9. Secular Humanism (72%)
10. Mahayana Buddhism (71%)
11. Taoism (66%)
12. Bahá'í Faith (64%)
13. Reform Judaism (63%)
14. Hinduism (59%)
15. Theravada Buddhism (58%)
16. Sikhism (56%)
17. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (51%)
18. Jainism (48%)
19. Nontheist (41%)
20. Orthodox Quaker (40%)
21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (38%)
22. Orthodox Judaism (29%)
23. Eastern Orthodox (24%)
24. Islam (24%)
25. Roman Catholic (24%)
26. Jehovah's Witness (23%)
27. Seventh Day Adventist (17%
 
Kismet said:
Seems to me, I recall a book jointly written by Thomas Merton and ? Suzuki on the eastern/zen influences in christianity. Not sure if in there, or if it was somewhere else, that a person suggested the three years before the "public life" time of Christ was spent in India, studying.

sheer speculation, but interesting to me.
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I have a book that talks about Jesus's travels and studies and it says Jesus was in India for some length of time.:eek:
The name of the book for the curious is, "The Urantia Book."
Anyone here besides me read it?

I went back and took the test again and this time it came up Neo-Pagan first @ 100% and the Un/Un next at 96%, I didn't change that many answers, just put different priorities on some, strange.:D

It's interesting to see so many come up the same or close to the same in here. That's probably why everyone gets along as well as we do.:D
 
Yvsa said:
It's interesting to see so many come up the same or close to the same in here. That's probably why everyone gets along as well as we do.:D
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I don't see many 100% Rednecks. :D
 
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