Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Belief-O-Matic

A few days ago, Andrew from Hackman's Musings (an awesome blog by the way), posted a link to the Belief-O-Matic, a quiz which asks you 20 questions about your religious beliefs (or lack thereof) and determines how close your beliefs are to 27 different religions or belief systems. I found it to be quite fun and interesting, so I thought I would share my results.

  1. Liberal Quakers (100%)
  2. Reform Judaism (98%)
  3. Unitarian Universalism (95%)
  4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (90%)
  5. Baha'i Faith (85%)
  6. Neo-Pagan (84%)
  7. New Age (81%)
  8. Mahayana Buddhism (74%)
  9. Sikhism (74%)
  10. New Thought (65%)
  11. Secular Humanism (64%)
  12. Jainism (61%)
  13. Orthodox Judaism (60%)
  14. Theravada Buddhism (56%)
  15. Taoism (55%)
  16. Scientology (55%)
  17. Islam (54%)
  18. Orthodox Quaker (53%)
  19. Hinduism (50%)
  20. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (42%)
  21. Nontheist (35%)
  22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (30%)
  23. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (29%)
  24. Eastern Orthodox (26%)
  25. Roman Catholic (26%)
  26. Seventh Day Adventist (25%)
  27. Jehovah's Witness (14%)
Overall, my results didn't surprise me too much. The only unexpected part was the 55% for Scientology. I guess that is mostly because I have just never thought of myself as having anything in common with Scientology, but I only know about some of their more controversial beliefs. 

1 comment:

  1. I started to go do the Belief-O-Matic but then decided: why? I've changed my thinking from time to time and reserve the right to do so endlessly. Some concepts I've discarded only to revisit them later and reconsider. Usually I just deepen or lessen my convictions. I'm a work in progress.

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