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... or at least a Neo-Pagan.....

(note: this post isn't meant to offend anyone, my apologies if it does)

In an interesting discussion of differences in religions this evening, I naively entered "what religion should I be?" on Google.

The first link took me to http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Quizzes/BeliefOMatic.aspx

The 'Belief-O-Matic' personality quiz is 20 questions designed to determine which religion most closely matches your beliefs; religions are ranked in percentage order. I wasn't sure if this was purely entertainment or not, but decided to give it a try.

Grant and I were both very surprised to learn my results:
1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Reform Judaism (90%) 3. Hinduism (86%) 4. Unitarian Universalism (83%) 5. Sikhism (82%) 6. Mahayana Buddhism (82%) 7. Jainism (78%) 8. Liberal Quakers (77%) 9. New Age (73%) 10. Orthodox Judaism (70%) 11. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (66%) 12. New Thought (64%) 13. Theravada Buddhism (63%) 14. Baha'i Faith (58%) 15. Scientology (55%) 16. Islam (50%) 17. Orthodox Quaker (46%) 18. Secular Humanism (46%) 19. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (41%) 20. Taoism (37%) 21. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (35%) 22. Jehovah's Witness (31%) 23. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (31%) 24. Eastern Orthodox (29%) 25. Roman Catholic (29%) 26. Seventh Day Adventist (28%) 27. Nontheist (22%)

Curious to see how other POAers fare if you're willing to share results...

Sharon: hope this doesn't dissuade you and Greg from rooming with us at Gatson's :)


Leslie
 
Well, Leslie, just goes to show how silly such "here's what you are" surveymatics are.

Whatever you are, though, you are not dull.
 
I took it a few months ago, wrote down the results... shredded them last week! Too bad you didn't ask til now. Interestingly, the "last" result on the list ended up being a religion I was born into. Hmmmm.... I guess it really wasn't a good fit for me, huh?

I found a snippet of my results in a Facebook message I sent to my nephew (he took it first, which is how I came to take it):

It said my three best matches were Secular Humanism at 100%, Unitarian Universalism at 93%, and Non-theist at 80%. I have no idea what those first two are, so I'll have to go look them up. The "interesting part" was what it rated as my three worst matches and, in particular, the worst match. They were, in order, Orthodox Judaism at 12%, Roman Catholicism at 12%, and... (drum roll please)... Jehovah's Witnesses at a paltry 7%.

I wonder how long before this thread ("about religion") gets sent to SZ?
 
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well I just took the quiz;

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (99%) 3. Neo-Pagan (94%) 4. New Age (89%) 5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (88%) 6. Mahayana Buddhism (85%) 7. Secular Humanism (83%) 8. Reform Judaism (74%) 9. Theravada Buddhism (72%) 10. Baha'i Faith (68%) 11. Scientology (67%) 12. Taoism (67%) 13. New Thought (66%) 14. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (59%) 15. Orthodox Quaker (56%) 16. Nontheist (51%) 17. Sikhism (51%) 18. Jainism (49%) 19. Hinduism (47%) 20. Orthodox Judaism (42%) 21. Islam (36%) 22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (30%) 23. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (29%) 24. Seventh Day Adventist (27%) 25. Jehovah's Witness (17%) 26. Eastern Orthodox (15%) 27. Roman Catholic (15%)
Wonder what it means?
 
Joe and I seem to be on about the same wave length:
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (92%) 3. New Age (87%) 4. Secular Humanism (86%) 5. Neo-Pagan (83%) 6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (82%) 7. Mahayana Buddhism (65%) 8. Orthodox Quaker (64%) 9. Reform Judaism (64%) 10. Theravada Buddhism (63%) 11. Taoism (62%) 12. Scientology (55%) 13. Nontheist (55%) 14. New Thought (51%) 15. Baha'i Faith (49%) 16. Sikhism (47%) 17. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (45%) 18. Jainism (41%) 19. Islam (31%) 20. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (31%) 21. Orthodox Judaism (31%) 22. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (29%) 23. Seventh Day Adventist (23%) 24. Eastern Orthodox (19%) 25. Roman Catholic (19%) 26. Hinduism (17%) 27. Jehovah's Witness (9%)


 
That was one of the easiest tests I've taken in awhile... although I'm not sure how I got these results:

1. Theravada Buddhism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (95%) 3. Secular Humanism (85%) 4. Nontheist (81%) 5. Neo-Pagan (71%) 6. Liberal Quakers (64%) 7. Mahayana Buddhism (53%) 8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (51%) 9. Reform Judaism (49%) 10. New Age (48%) 11. New Thought (42%) 12. Scientology (42%) 13. Eastern Orthodox (38%) 14. Hinduism (38%) 15. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (38%) 16. Roman Catholic (38%) 17. Sikhism (38%) 18. Taoism (38%) 19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (34%) 20. Orthodox Judaism (33%) 21. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (31%) 22. Islam (31%) 23. Jehovah's Witness (31%) 24. Orthodox Quaker (31%) 25. Seventh Day Adventist (31%) 26. Baha'i Faith (23%) 27. Jainism (23%)


Maybe the quiz knew I had Del Taco for dinner, and triggered the "fat buddha belly" flag in the database...! :D
 
Some of those questions were worded a bit strangely. I make a point of knowing my faith well, but some of those questions left me confused as to what I was actually professing by checking that particular option.

1. Eastern Orthodox (100%)
2. Roman Catholic (100%)
3. Seventh Day Adventist (90%)
4. Hinduism (88%)
5. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (82%)
6. Orthodox Quaker (79%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (59%)
8. Orthodox Judaism (57%)
9. Jainism (55%)
10. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (51%)
11. Jehovah's Witness (51%)
12. Islam (47%)
13. Sikhism (47%)
14. Mahayana Buddhism (41%)
15. Baha'i Faith (40%)
16. Liberal Quakers (39%)
17. Theravada Buddhism (36%)
18. Unitarian Universalism (35%)
19. Neo-Pagan (30%)
20. Reform Judaism (24%)
21. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (19%)
22. Scientology (17%)
23. Nontheist (17%)
24. New Age (16%)
25. New Thought (15%)
26. Taoism (15%)
27. Secular Humanism (12%)
 
I just want it to be known that I love my wife, even if she is a devotee of Wicca. :)
 
Interesting that my own "faith" is near the bottom.

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (88%)
3. Neo-Pagan (88%)
4. Mahayana Buddhism (85%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (78%)
6. New Age (78%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (76%)
8. Taoism (71%)
9. Secular Humanism (70%)
10. Sikhism (67%)
11. Reform Judaism (67%)
12. New Thought (55%)
13. Hinduism (53%)
14. Scientology (51%)
15. Jainism (50%)
16. Orthodox Quaker (44%)
17. Baha'i Faith (41%)
18. Nontheist (40%)
19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (40%)
20. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (30%)
21. Orthodox Judaism (25%)
22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (22%)
23. Seventh Day Adventist (19%)
24. Eastern Orthodox (19%)
25. Islam (19%)
26. Roman Catholic (19%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (5%)
 
Hmmm.

Interesting. They pegged me to exactly what I am (well, in a backslid, bad-boy kind of way).
 
My answers must have matched Aunt Peggy's. At least, I can pretty well say "ditto" on the results. I really didn't find good answers to match my beliefs (or non-beliefs).
 
is the Church of the Rotating Beacon an option? "We have seen the light"
 
Neo-Pagan? That's a new one on me. What happened to good old fashioned Paganism?? Or has that been overwhelmed by an extremist faction?:D
 
Well, being genetically descended from celtic/druid ancestors, in the old days, I would have been that guy with blue clay smeared on his face, running around swinging a big sword, and generally being difficult..
Moving to more modern times, the family having been starved out of Ireland during the potato famine and coming to America in the stinking bilge of a tramp freighter, saved me from becoming an IRA gunman...
By being born here, I really hit the bottom, becoming a pilot flying around in one of those dangerous little planes and causing grave concern to the HSA...

denny-o
 
It nailed me, I think the UUA must be behind this.

Kevin
 
is the Church of the Rotating Beacon an option? "We have seen the light"

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Interesting results:

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (99%) 3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (99%) 4. Neo-Pagan (91%) 5. Secular Humanism (84%) 6. New Age (83%) 7. Theravada Buddhism (81%) 8. Orthodox Quaker (80%) 9. Reform Judaism (78%) 10. Mahayana Buddhism (74%) 11. Baha'i Faith (62%) 12. Jainism (58%) 13. Scientology (57%) 14. Taoism (56%) 15. Sikhism (56%) 16. Nontheist (53%) 17. New Thought (52%) 18. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (52%) 19. Seventh Day Adventist (48%) 20. Hinduism (47%) 21. Orthodox Judaism (44%) 22. Eastern Orthodox (43%) 23. Roman Catholic (43%) 24. Islam (42%) 25. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (42%) 26. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (36%) 27. Jehovah's Witness (19%)
 
1. Secular humanism
2. Unitarian Universalism (90%)
3. Liberal Quakers (87%)
4. Neo-Pagan (85%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (74%)
6. New Age (73%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (73%)
8. Orthodox Quaker (64%)
9. Taoism (64%)
10. Mahayana Buddhism (61%)

I'm not as good as the computo-fu as you guys, so my copy-paste isn't as slick. I've never even heard of the Baha'i Faith, but I'm certain there are more of them than Jews.
 
I find the results accurate. I wonder what this Theravada Buddhism is. I was raised a Unitarian. I married a Greek Orthodox. My kids are Greek Orthodox. I'm just a little concerned that I rate Scientology above their religion. :yikes:


1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Nontheist (94%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (92%)
4. Theravada Buddhism (91%)
5. Neo-Pagan (71%)
6. Liberal Quakers (69%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (58%)
8. Reform Judaism (53%)
9. Taoism (51%)
10. New Thought (46%)
11. Scientology (46%)
12. New Age (42%)
13. Mahayana Buddhism (41%)
14. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (38%)
15. Sikhism (38%)
16. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (35%)
17. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (30%)
18. Eastern Orthodox (30%)
19. Islam (30%)
20. Orthodox Judaism (30%)
21. Roman Catholic (30%)
22. Baha'i Faith (26%)
23. Orthodox Quaker (26%)
24. Hinduism (23%)
25. Jainism (19%)
26. Seventh Day Adventist (15%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (11%)
 
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I'm too lazy to take the test again, but took it a while ago and kept my top 10:

1. Theravada Buddhism (100%)
2. Jainism (89%)
3. Mahayana Buddhism (89%)
4. Liberal Quakers (81%)
5. Hinduism (75%)
6. Orthodox Quaker (75%)
7. Unitarian Universalism (73%)
8. Orthodox Judaism (69%)
9. Secular Humanism (69%)
10. Neo-Pagan (68%)
 
I'm not as good as the computo-fu as you guys, so my copy-paste isn't as slick. I've never even heard of the Baha'i Faith, but I'm certain there are more of them than Jews.

Funny thing is that the center of the Baha'i Faith is in Haifa, Israel.
 
Funny thing is that the center of the Baha'i Faith is in Haifa, Israel.

Actually, I have heard of them, and surprisingly enough there are more Jews. As I understand it, most are in Iran, where they are heavily persecuted by the Iranian government. Might explain the HQ in Haifa, the only country in the ME with any religious freedom.
 
Doesn't surprise me in the least.

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Secular Humanism (90%)
3. Liberal Quakers (83%)
4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (78%)
5. Neo-Pagan (75%)
6. Theravada Buddhism (72%)
7. Mahayana Buddhism (69%)
8. New Age (65%)
9. Nontheist (65%)
10. Scientology (65%)
 
I guess being drug to Mass every Sunday explains #26..... Perhaps my Aunt and Uncle would have had better luck had Mass been in English and not Spanish or Latin. LOL


1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Theravada Buddhism (96%)
3. Mahayana Buddhism (91%)
4. Neo-Pagan (89%)
5. Secular Humanism (83%)
6. Liberal Quakers (82%)
7. New Age (71%)
8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)
9. Nontheist (61%)
10. Taoism (60%)
11. Reform Judaism (56%)
12. New Thought (55%)
13. Jainism (55%)
14. Scientology (51%)
15. Hinduism (50%)
16. Orthodox Quaker (48%)
17. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (44%)
18. Baha'i Faith (41%)
19. Sikhism (40%)
20. Orthodox Judaism (37%)
21. Islam (29%)
22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (29%)
23. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (18%)
24. Eastern Orthodox (18%)
25. Jehovah's Witness (18%)
26. Roman Catholic (18%)
27. Seventh Day Adventist (16%)
 
... or at least a Neo-Pagan.....

(note: this post isn't meant to offend anyone, my apologies if it does)

In an interesting discussion of differences in religions this evening, I naively entered "what religion should I be?" on Google.

The first link took me to http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Quizzes/BeliefOMatic.aspx

The 'Belief-O-Matic' personality quiz is 20 questions designed to determine which religion most closely matches your beliefs; religions are ranked in percentage order. I wasn't sure if this was purely entertainment or not, but decided to give it a try.

Grant and I were both very surprised to learn my results:
1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Reform Judaism (90%) 3. Hinduism (86%) 4. Unitarian Universalism (83%) 5. Sikhism (82%) 6. Mahayana Buddhism (82%) 7. Jainism (78%) 8. Liberal Quakers (77%) 9. New Age (73%) 10. Orthodox Judaism (70%) 11. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (66%) 12. New Thought (64%) 13. Theravada Buddhism (63%) 14. Baha'i Faith (58%) 15. Scientology (55%) 16. Islam (50%) 17. Orthodox Quaker (46%) 18. Secular Humanism (46%) 19. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (41%) 20. Taoism (37%) 21. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (35%) 22. Jehovah's Witness (31%) 23. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (31%) 24. Eastern Orthodox (29%) 25. Roman Catholic (29%) 26. Seventh Day Adventist (28%) 27. Nontheist (22%)

Curious to see how other POAers fare if you're willing to share results...

Sharon: hope this doesn't dissuade you and Greg from rooming with us at Gatson's :)


Leslie

Leslie:

Can't wait to take the "test" to see what the outcome is...you may not want to room with me and Greg when you see our results...lol
 
I actually did the test twice since so most had options I didn't totally agree with...just to see the differences. The first results are from the first take...second results are from the 2nd take...interesting that the Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestant didn't change all that much while some did.

1. Orthodox Quaker (100%) 2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (98%) 3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (91%) 4. Eastern Orthodox (81%) 5. Roman Catholic (81%) 6. Seventh Day Adventist (75%) 7. Liberal Quakers (75%) 8. Unitarian Universalism (71%) 9. Reform Judaism (66%) 10. Mahayana Buddhism (63%) 11. Theravada Buddhism (63%) 12. Baha'i Faith (59%) 13. Hinduism (58%) 14. Neo-Pagan (57%) 15. Orthodox Judaism (56%) 16. Sikhism (53%) 17. New Age (52%) 18. Islam (50%) 19. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (47%) 20. New Thought (47%) 21. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (46%) 22. Scientology (45%) 23. Secular Humanism (40%) 24. Jainism (38%) 25. Taoism (38%) 26. Jehovah's Witness (33%) 27. Nontheist (32%)

1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (81%) 3. Hinduism (77%) 4. Liberal Quakers (77%) 5. Reform Judaism (74%) 6. Neo-Pagan (71%) 7. Baha'i Faith (70%) 8. Orthodox Quaker (67%) 9. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (66%) 10. Mahayana Buddhism (64%) 11. Eastern Orthodox (63%) 12. Roman Catholic (63%) 13. New Thought (61%) 14. Jainism (55%) 15. Seventh Day Adventist (55%) 16. New Age (54%) 17. Orthodox Judaism (52%) 18. Sikhism (51%) 19. Theravada Buddhism (51%) 20. Scientology (47%) 21. Taoism (47%) 22. Islam (45%) 23. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (44%) 24. Secular Humanism (41%) 25. Nontheist (36%) 26. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (29%) 27. Jehovah's Witness (19%)
 
OK, Mr. Spike...give it up....what were your results! Be afraid...very afraid! :eek::smile:

I forget which now, but the first two were the mainline to ____ Christian Protestant.

We belong to a Presbyterian church (PC USA), I grew up (to the very limited degree church was attended) in the Episcopal church. Dribs and drabs of Southern Baptist influence, and nearly all our family friends, growing up, were Jewish.

Fun fact: When I was a kid, we were the token Goyim at the Julius Schepps Jewish Community Center.
 
I forget which now, but the first two were the mainline to ____ Christian Protestant.

We belong to a Presbyterian church (PC USA), I grew up (to the very limited degree church was attended) in the Episcopal church. Dribs and drabs of Southern Baptist influence, and nearly all our family friends, growing up, were Jewish.

Fun fact: When I was a kid, we were the token Goyim at the Julius Schepps Jewish Community Center.

I resemble that remark...as far as growing up with a hodge-podge of influences.
 
They tried to raise me a roman catholic but I was tossed out of catholic school in the second grade... Funny thing... I am now deathly scared of large penguins and my knuckles are all disfigured..:lol::lol::lol::rofl::arf:
 
The international headquarters of the Baha'i Faith are in Haifa, Israel because of banishments, by the Shah or Iran and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1868, of Baha'u'llah the Prophet-Founder. Now the Baha'is in Iran are accused of being Zionists and spying for Israel!!! They have a lot of facts mixed up!

There are more Jews in the world than Baha'is, but in the last 150 years the Baha'i Faith has become, according to the World Christian Encyclopedia, the second most widespread religion in the world.

The basic teaching of the Baha'i Faith is that human society is entering a new stage, one where we can destroy all life on earth, or we can work together and build a civilization like no one has dreamed of before. I choose the latter myself.

Spiritually it teaching that every human has an eternal soul and the purpose of life on earth is to develop our spiritual attributes so that when we leave the physical world we can function in the next/spiritual world.

There are various references in Baha'i scripture to the Big Bang that started creation, evolution as a fact, and space and time travel (the last as a possibility once technology gets that far). And there are warnings about ground pollution, atmospheric poisoning and global warning.

It's a religion that deals with modern problems and possible solutions.

Good general information can be found at: usbahai.org

Hope this was helpful,

dlh...
 
There are more Jews in the world than Baha'is, but in the last 150 years the Baha'i Faith has become, according to the World Christian Encyclopedia, the second most widespread religion in the world.

What "widespread" actually means is problematic in this context. Since the major two religions (in terms of population) have members on every continent including Antarctica, it doesn't refer to geographic spread. If it means number of adherents then that factoid is incorrect, if Baha'i is second in population and there are more Jews then Judaism would be first, and there are fewer Jews than Jains or Wiccans. I doubt it is the most rapidly expanding, though I'm not certain which club gets that honor these days (it was the Mormons for a long time).

Oh, welcome to POA. Do come back, although could you please get your propaganda straight when you do?
 
1. Nontheist (100%)
2. Secular Humanism (89%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (83%)
4. Theravada Buddhism (73%)
5. Liberal Quakers (63%)
6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (61%)
7. Neo-Pagan (55%)
8. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (53%)
9. Reform Judaism (51%)
10. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (48%)
11. New Thought (48%)
12. Scientology (48%)
13. Islam (44%)
14. Orthodox Judaism (44%)
15. Sikhism (43%)
16. Taoism (43%)
17. Orthodox Quaker (40%)
18. Mahayana Buddhism (39%)
19. New Age (39%)
20. Baha'i Faith (38%)
21. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (33%)
22. Eastern Orthodox (33%)
23. Roman Catholic (33%)
24. Jainism (31%)
25. Seventh Day Adventist (29%)
26. Hinduism (27%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (20%)
 
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