4.12.2007

belief-o-matic

beliefnet has a quiz that tells you what religion you are (or should be) or at least what your beliefs come closest to. it's obviously not wholly accurate as they try to squeeze 27 world religions into about 20 questions or so. but fun and interesting anyway, and i'm curious to hear your results as well.

this is what the site says:
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.

my results:
1. Orthodox Quaker (100%) <-- cool. though i'm sure i'm not all that orthodox.
2. Seventh Day Adventist (85%) <-- but i eat a lot of chocolate.
3. Eastern Orthodox (84%) <-- didn't expect that to rank so high.
4. Roman Catholic (84%) <-- not that surprising.
5. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (83%) <-- i'm not all that conservative.
6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (70%) <-- i might be just about that liberal.
7. Liberal Quakers (58%) <-- curious.
8. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (54%) <-- no.
9. Orthodox Judaism (52%) <-- expected this to be higher. i guess my belief in the trinity knocked this one down a bit.
10. Hinduism (50%) <-- how'd this make it to the top 10?
11. Islam (49%)
12. Bahá'í Faith (49%)
13. Jehovah's Witness (46%)
14. Unitarian Universalism (45%)
15. Sikhism (44%)
16. Jainism (38%)
17. Reform Judaism (37%) <-- would've expected this to be higher, too.
18. Neo-Pagan (31%) <-- pagan? not really. heretic? probably.
19. Mahayana Buddhism (30%)
20. Theravada Buddhism (29%)
21. Secular Humanism (26%) <-- that's what i get for not being a strict creationist.
22. New Age (26%)
23. Taoism (22%)
24. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (21%)
25. Nontheist (17%) <-- some days this is probably true.
26. Scientology (16%) <-- ack. don't want it on here at all.
27. New Thought (15%) <-- what's this?

2 comments:

Elizabeth Easterling said...

I am 100% Liberal Quaker. I consider it a compliment to myself.

Resa said...

1. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (100%)
2. Eastern Orthodox (89%)
3. Roman Catholic (89%)
4. Seventh Day Adventist (87%)
5. Orthodox Quaker (79%)
6. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (66%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (63%)
8. Jehovah's Witness (58%)
9. Hinduism (55%)
10. Orthodox Judaism (51%)
11. Islam (45%)
12. Liberal Quakers (34%)
13. Sikhism (31%)
14. Unitarian Universalism (27%)
15. Bahá'í Faith (27%)
16. Jainism (25%)
17. Reform Judaism (23%)
18. Nontheist (19%)
19. Mahayana Buddhism (17%)
20. Theravada Buddhism (17%)
21. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (14%)
22. Neo-Pagan (14%)
23. New Age (9%)
24. Scientology (9%)
25. New Thought (8%)
26. Secular Humanism (7%)
27. Taoism (7%)