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A Personality Quiz about your religious or spiritual beliefs (link)

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If YOU don't know what faith you are, Belief-O-Matic (TM) knows. Answer 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more, and Belief-O-Matic (TM) will tell you what religion (if any) you practice ... or ought to consider practicing.
Gotta have that little (TM) trademark thingy in there ... they're serious about this . And make sure to notice some questions are multiple choice.

Although this quiz made an attempt to recognize religious or spiritual paths (or "non-paths") outside of the mainstream, including atheist and agnostic, IMO it was still based on a traditional Judaeo-Christian worldview.

There were several questions where my response didn't really fit any of the options ... I could see what they were getting at, but it was obvious that whoever created the quiz didn't really understand non-mainstream concepts. They tried to ask about non-mainstream beliefs using their own frame of reference, and it didn't quite work.

For example, my own approach to living a spiritual life in a physical world is a bit more complex than "should social betterment programs be fundamental: yes or no."

Anyhoo, it was kind of a fun way to spend a few minutes on a Friday afternoon. Here were my Top Ten results. They're actually not too far offbase ... except I'm looking at Scientology there in 9th place. Tom Cruise, honey, get a place ready for me.


1. Mahayana Buddhism (100%)
2. Neo-Pagan (97%)
3. New Age (92%)
4. Unitarian Universalist (89%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (81%)
6. Liberal Quakers (79%)
7. Taoism (78%)
8. New Thought (71%)
9. Scientology (71%)
10. Hinduism (71%)


And down there at the very bottom of the list were Mormon, Seventh Day Adventist, Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant, Islam, Roman Catholicism and Jehovah's Witnesses. Just as well. I'm not too fond of going around knocking on strangers' doors.

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After peering bleery-eyed at the quiz and even forgetting what the question was after getting through the options a couple of times.. to simply clicking not applicable a lot of times LOL I eventually got to the end and, considering I disagreed with 90% of the actual choices they still got my no.1 correct The rest... well, they're likely due to my getting bored with the obvious Christian-structure of it as Kitty already mentioned.

1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (94%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (88%) 4. New Age (84%) 5. Liberal Quakers (78%) 6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (77%) 7. New Thought (76%) 8. Scientology (73%) 9. Taoism (70%) 10. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (68%) 11. Reform Judaism (68%) 12. Theravada Buddhism (66%) 13. Nontheist (65%) 14. Mahayana Buddhism (55%) 15. Sikhism (51%) 16. Baha'i Faith (45%) 17. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (22%) 18. Hinduism (22%) 19. Orthodox Quaker (22%) 20. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (18%) 21. Jainism (17%) 22. Orthodox Judaism (17%) 23. Eastern Orthodox (11%) 24. Islam (11%) 25. Roman Catholic (11%) 26. Jehovah's Witness (0%) 27. Seventh Day Adventist (0%)

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hmm, pretty much on target for me:

1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Nontheist (90%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (90%) 4. Theravada Buddhism (70%) 5. Liberal Quakers (65%) 6. Neo-Pagan (57%) 7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (52%) 8. Taoism (44%) 9. Reform Judaism (36%) 10. New Age (35%) 11. Mahayana Buddhism (28%) 12. Sikhism (27%) 13. New Thought (25%) 14. Scientology (25%) 15. Baha'i Faith (24%) 16. Orthodox Quaker (24%) 17. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (21%) 18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (21%) 19. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (19%) 20. Eastern Orthodox (15%) 21. Islam (15%) 22. Orthodox Judaism (15%) 23. Roman Catholic (15%) 24. Jainism (12%) 25. Hinduism (9%) 26. Seventh Day Adventist (9%) 27. Jehovah's Witness (0%)

I describe myself as atheist, but have been researching humanism.

oops, can someone please fix my double post? Thanks.

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oops, can someone please fix my double post? Thanks.
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These are mine:

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (93%)
3. Nontheist (82%)
4. Theravada Buddhism (76%)
5. Liberal Quakers (72%)
6. Neo-Pagan (59%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (58%)
8. Taoism (44%)
9. New Age (43%)
10. Orthodox Quaker (41%)
11. Reform Judaism (41%)
12. Sikhism (41%)
13. Mahayana Buddhism (36%)
14. Baha'i Faith (34%)
15. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (34%)
16. New Thought (30%)
17. Scientology (29%)
18. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (27%)
19. Eastern Orthodox (24%)
20. Islam (24%)
21. Jainism (24%)
22. Orthodox Judaism (24%)
23. Roman Catholic (24%)
24. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (23%)
25. Seventh Day Adventist (23%)
26. Hinduism (20%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (13%)
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1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (99%) 3. Liberal Quakers (86%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (80%) 5. Theravada Buddhism (78%) 6. Nontheist (74%) 7. Reform Judaism (66%) 8. Neo-Pagan (66%) 9. New Age (63%) 10. Mahayana Buddhism (59%) 11. Scientology (59%) 12. New Thought (56%) 13. Taoism (55%) 14. Orthodox Quaker (53%) 15. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (49%) 16. Sikhism (44%) 17. Baha'i Faith (39%) 18. Jainism (37%) 19. Islam (36%) 20. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (36%) 21. Orthodox Judaism (36%) 22. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (34%) 23. Hinduism (34%) 24. Seventh Day Adventist (32%) 25. Eastern Orthodox (25%) 26. Roman Catholic (25%) 27. Jehovah's Witness (20%)
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Hmm,
1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (100%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (98%) 4. New Age (86%) 5. Liberal Quakers (83%) 6. Nontheist (77%) 7. Theravada Buddhism (71%) 8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (69%) 9. Mahayana Buddhism (62%) 10. Taoism (61%) 11. Jainism (42%) 12. Hinduism (40%) 13. Reform Judaism (39%) 14. Orthodox Quaker (35%) 15. Scientology (30%) 16. Baha'i Faith (26%) 17. New Thought (26%) 18. Sikhism (26%) 19. Seventh Day Adventist (24%) 20. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (17%) 21. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (17%) 22. Orthodox Judaism (17%) 23. Eastern Orthodox (14%) 24. Islam (14%) 25. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (14%) 26. Roman Catholic (14%) 27. Jehovah's Witness (8%)

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We seem to have a trend going here at last place. Doesn't anyone want to volunteer to be our token Jehovah's Witness?

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Only if you become the token scientologist

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