Belief-O-Matic(tm)
I just completed the Belief-O-Matic(tm) on beliefnet and it is absolutely fascinating. I answered very carefully and conscienciously based on my current beliefs with the following results. It looks like I am 100% aligned with Secular Humanists:
| 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. |
| 1. | Secular Humanism (100%) |
| 2. | Unitarian Universalism (90%) |
| 3. | Nontheist (81%) |
| 4. | Liberal Quakers (75%) |
| 5. | Neo-Pagan (75%) |
| 6. | Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (64%) |
| 7. | Theravada Buddhism (64%) |
| 8. | Taoism (57%) |
| 9. | Reform Judaism (56%) |
| 10. | New Age (52%) |
| 11. | Mahayana Buddhism (45%) |
| 12. | New Thought (42%) |
| 13. | Scientology (42%) |
| 14. | Bahá’í Faith (37%) |
| 15. | Orthodox Quaker (37%) |
| 16. | Sikhism (37%) |
| 17. | Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (32%) |
| 18. | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (28%) |
| 19. | Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (24%) |
| 20. | Eastern Orthodox (18%) |
| 21. | Islam (18%) |
| 22. | Jainism (18%) |
| 23. | Orthodox Judaism (18%) |
| 24. | Roman Catholic (18%) |
| 25. | Hinduism (9%) |
| 26. | Seventh Day Adventist (9%) |
| 27. | Jehovah’s Witness (0%) |
The most amazing one to me was Quakers. Who knew that Quakers were so free-thinking? Actually, I had an idea because I recall that the early Quaker movement in the US was largely due to dissatisfaction with contemporary sects of Christianity and has become even less rigid as of late.
I have considered attending a UU church for the social and intellectual stimulation, but many of the UU blogs and web sites are frequently lamenting that UU denominations are not more “spiritual”. That’s certainly not for me, so UUism is probably not in my future.
You should check out beliefnet. It was even more fun to try it again with my ‘Baptist’ upbringing. Enjoy…
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