Sunday, April 5, 2009

beliefs and myths . . .

Okay I bit. I took the Belief-O-Matic personality religious test over at Belief Net after reading The New Unitarian Universalist post this morning. I am disappointed to see New Age so high on the list (albeit, still a failing score, thank god). I must also say that I don't think of myself as a Secular Humanist at all. While I surely refer to myself, from time to time, as a humanist, I don't use the adjective secular. Folks who do that are typically making a judgment call. Anyway, here's my score (my wife says I'm a "scary person"): what's your score?

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (97%)
3. Liberal Quakers (85%)
4. Neo-Pagan (76%)
5. Nontheist (72%)
6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (69%)
7. New Age (68%)
8. Theravada Buddhism (66%)
9. Mahayana Buddhism (54%)
10. Taoism (51%)
11. Scientology (45%)
12. New Thought (43%)
13. Orthodox Quaker (41%)
14. Reform Judaism (41%)
15. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (38%)
16. Jainism (28%)
17. Baha'i Faith (27%)
18. Hinduism (27%)
19. Sikhism (27%)
20. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (20%)
21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (16%)
22. Seventh Day Adventist (15%)
23. Eastern Orthodox (13%)
24. Islam (13%)
25. Jehovah's Witness (13%)
26. Orthodox Judaism (13%)
27. Roman Catholic (13%)

Update: my wife who thinks I am a "scary person" based on my belief score above, agreed to take the quiz to demonstrate a "non-scary person." I thinks she succeeded in that, here is her score:
1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (89%)
3. Liberal Quakers (80%)
4. Neo-Pagan (70%)
5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)
6. Nontheist (63%)
7. Theravada Buddhism (63%)
8. New Age (56%)
9. Reform Judaism (51%)
10. Taoism (50%)
11. Mahayana Buddhism (48%)
12. Orthodox Quaker (44%)
13. Baha'i Faith (39%)
14. Sikhism (39%)
15. Scientology (38%)
16. Jainism (37%)
17. New Thought (35%)
18. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (29%)
19. Hinduism (26%)
20. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (24%)
21. Seventh Day Adventist (21%)
22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (18%)
23. Eastern Orthodox (16%)
24. Islam (16%)
25. Orthodox Judaism (16%)
26. Roman Catholic (16%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (14%)


2 comments:

  1. I guess it is my strong monotheism that causes the following somewhat unusual (for me) result -

    Liberal Quakers (100%)
    Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (98%)
    Reform Judaism (97%)
    Unitarian Universalism (93%)
    Neo-Pagan (88%)
    Sikhism (87%)
    Baha'i Faith (84%)
    Orthodox Quaker (84%)
    New Age (83%)
    Mahayana Buddhism (71%)
    Orthodox Judaism (71%)
    Theravada Buddhism (70%)
    Islam (68%)
    Secular Humanism (61%)
    Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (59%)
    Jainism (58%)
    Scientology (58%)
    Seventh Day Adventist (55%)
    New Thought (52%)
    Taoism (52%)
    Eastern Orthodox (51%)
    Roman Catholic (51%)
    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (46%)
    Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (45%)
    Hinduism (43%)
    Nontheist (38%)
    Jehovah's Witness (25%)

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  2. Actually I think your results more closely show what I expected mine would be. So much for my success in following the old Greek philosophy of "know thyself."

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