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Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1583
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 6:16 pm: |     |
Even if YOU don't know what faith you are, Belief-O-Matic knows.
I answered the quiz and got these results, which are not altogether surprising.
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Neo-Pagan (97%)
3. New Age (96%)
4. Mahayana Buddhism (93%)
5. Liberal Quakers (88%)
6. Hinduism (83%)
7. Reform Judaism (81%)
8. New Thought (80%)
9. Scientology (79%)
10. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (72%)
11. Theravada Buddhism (72%)
12. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (71%)
13. Jainism (71%)
14. Bahá'í Faith (69%)
15. Sikhism (68%)
16. Taoism (67%)
17. Orthodox Judaism (59%)
18. Orthodox Quaker (55%)
19. Secular Humanism (55%)
20. Islam (51%)
21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (32%)
22. Nontheist (31%)
23. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (31%)
24. Seventh Day Adventist (29%)
25. Jehovah's Witness (20%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (18%)
Tom Reingold
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mfpark
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 111
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 7:26 pm: | |
I dunno Tom, you score pretty high on Islam....have you ever taken a trip to Afghanistan? Ashcroft is watching! |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 238
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 7:34 pm: | |
This is GREAT! I'm a liberal protestant...but not much of a Hindu |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1441
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 8:01 pm: | |
8 years of Catholic elementary school, 4 years of Catholic university, and Roman Catholic comes in at 27th place in my results.
I don't think I'll tell my mom... |
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1585
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 10:20 pm: | |
mkpark, I expected Islam to score HIGHER on my list than it did. Ideologically and theologically, it's extremely close to Judaism, just not politically these days. Not that I was brought up religiously with any faith, but I thought I would be considered a Jew/Muslim by this quiz.
Anyway, this thing is a lot of fun. I might play with it more, giving more though to my answers and maybe giving some sections various weights. I left everything as medium.
Tom Reingold
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greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1915
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 2:27 pm: | |
I was torn on some of the questions, so I did it twice. Both times, Unitarian came first. Second: once was Human Secular & the other time nontheist. After reading the descriptions, I think I'm actually a Human Secularist. That fits, because I go to the Human Secular Judaism services on occasion.
What I find interesting is the Unitarian description. It seems anyone who may or may not believe in God, is socially progressive and wants to belong to an organized spiritual entity is pretty much a Unitarian. |
bookgal
Citizen
Username: Bookgal
Post Number: 448
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 6:19 pm: | |
1. Secular Humanism
2. universal unitarian
guess what came in last at 27? Roman Catholicism
guess what kind of elementary and high schooling I had? Roman Catholicism.
Surprise! |
Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 2317
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 1, 2004 - 12:31 pm: | |
Liberal Quaker -- 100%
Reform Judaism -- 100%
Universal Unitarian -- 100%
It's nice to know how similar so many of our beliefs can be despite the difference in labels.
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eliz
Citizen
Username: Eliz
Post Number: 647
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 1, 2004 - 1:35 pm: | |
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (97%)
3. Neo-Pagan (94%)
4. Reform Judaism (91%)
5. Secular Humanism (82%)
12 years of Catholic education at work! |
bella
Citizen
Username: Bella
Post Number: 412
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 1, 2004 - 1:37 pm: | |
Well, I knew that in practice I was more of a Reform Jew than a Conservative Jew, but I still feel more at home in Consevative congregations. I've always been very interested in Quakers (since my 4th grade book report on William Penn) so I was interested to see that listed so high.
1. Reform Judaism (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (99%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (96%)
4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (92%)
5. Bahá'í Faith (88%)
6. Sikhism (76%)
7. Neo-Pagan (73%)
8. Orthodox Judaism (71%)
9. New Age (67%)
10. Islam (65%)
11. Secular Humanism (65%)
12. Mahayana Buddhism (63%)
13. Orthodox Quaker (57%)
14. Theravada Buddhism (54%)
15. Jainism (54%)
16. New Thought (51%)
17. Scientology (49%)
18. Taoism (45%)
19. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (41%)
20. Nontheist (40%)
21. Eastern Orthodox (37%)
22. Roman Catholic (37%)
23. Hinduism (36%)
24. Seventh Day Adventist (32%)
25. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (31%)
26. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (29%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (11%)
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nan
Citizen
Username: Nan
Post Number: 1080
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 3, 2004 - 8:01 am: | |
Well I had Unitarian Universalism at the top and Roman Catholic at the bottom.
I wonder how this relates to my life where I spend every Sunday morning shopping at Pathmark and I'm married to a Roman Catholic (who got about the same results as I did). |
JGTierney
Citizen
Username: Jtg7448
Post Number: 108
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 1:45 pm: | |
Well I guess I too need to find the nearest Liberal
Quaker or Unitarian Univeralist Church nearby?
Anyone located these yet? |
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1622
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 1:56 pm: | |
My wife took the quiz and found it very lacking. It has no questions on the types of rituals you like, though it asks how important you think rituals are. For instance, many older protestant churches have rather dry ceremonies, with people sitting still. There is emphasis on music but none on dance. She said she'd be more comfortable in a Pentecostal church where people put their hands up over their heads and yell Hallelujah. This is a concern having nothing to do with beliefs.
Tom Reingold
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Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 337
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 3:22 pm: | |
There's a Quaker Meeting House (Don't think they call em Churches) in Madison. They used to share their space with a Reconstructionist Synagogue. |
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1624
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 3:24 pm: | |
Ukealalio, are you talking about the church in Chatham? My reconstructionist Jewish congregation meets there.
Tom Reingold
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Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 338
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 3:51 pm: | |
It's probably the same Synagogue (I think it's called Beth Hatikvah) but it moved from a Quaker Meeting House in Madison to a church in Chatham. My family used to belong there. We liked it but are now members of the Secular Humanistic Jewish group. I keep on thinking my dear departed Grandparents would disapprove but I thought Hebrew school was torture and did not want to put my son through the same.
While both my wife and I don't consider ourselves 100% secular, I really prefer the education at the school my son is in. They teach, Ethics, Old Testament stories (as literature not as fact), Conversational Hebrew and a bit of Ladino and Yiddish. It's not for everyone but we really like it (and so does my son-as much as a 10 year old can like anything that takes him away from video games and skateboarding, Sunday mornings). |
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