Monday, November 10, 2008

Belief-o-matic

Okay, this is pretty funny as a concept, but it's also remarkably interesting.

http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Quizzes/BeliefOMatic.aspx

You take a quiz with 20 questions, and then it tells you what faith/religion most closely suits your viewpoints; there are 26 religions to chose from on their list.

Try it - and I'm VERY interested to learn what it says, so if you'd like to share, I'm interested.

I was a little concerned that I wouldn't get a good UU score - what would that mean? - but I needn't have worried. 100% UU here.

Here are my top ten:
Your Results
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.
How did the Belief-O-Matic do? Discuss your results on our message boards.
1.
Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2.
Liberal Quakers (95%)
3.
Neo-Pagan (88%)
4.
New Age (83%)
5.
Mahayana Buddhism (82%)
6.
Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (81%)
7.
Secular Humanism (80%)
8.
Taoism (79%)
9.
Theravada Buddhism (70%)
10.
New Thought (69%)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This was fun, Kristina. And no wonder that we get along so well - we have a lot in common according to this list!

Funniest to me is that the faith I was raised in (Roman Catholic) is #26 on my list, and I only matched 16%. Hmmm . . . no wonder I don't go there anymore! :)

Here's my list:

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (92%)
3. Neo-Pagan (92%)
4. New Age (86%)
5. Secular Humanism (84%)
6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (78%)
7. Mahayana Buddhism (76%)
8. Theravada Buddhism (74%)
9. Taoism (67%)
10. Reform Judaism (62%)
11. New Thought (57%)
12. Orthodox Quaker (57%)
13. Scientology (56%)
14. Nontheist (54%)
15. Baha'i Faith (52%)
16. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (46%)
17. Sikhism (46%)
18. Jainism (45%)
19. Hinduism (42%)
20. Orthodox Judaism (29%)
21. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (27%)
22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (26%)
23. Islam (24%)
24. Seventh Day Adventist (24%)
25. Eastern Orthodox (16%)
26. Roman Catholic (16%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (12%)