Belief Net Quiz

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Neo-Pagan (100%)
Reform Judaism (86%)
Unitarian Universalism (84%)
New Age (76%)
Liberal Quakers (71%)
Mahayana Buddhism (68%)
Baha'i Faith (67%)
Jainism (65%)
Sikhism (62%)
Orthodox Judaism (60%)
Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (60%)
New Thought (56%)
Theravada Buddhism (55%)
Secular Humanism (53%)
Scientology (52%)
Hinduism (52%)
Taoism (51%)
Islam (50%)
Nontheist (44%)
Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (37%)
Orthodox Quaker (37%)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (29%)
Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (29%) Seventh Day Adventist (17%)
Eastern Orthodox (13%)
Roman Catholic (13%)
Jehovah's Witness (8%)

Reform Judaism? Didn't see that one coming. I'm surprised I didn't score higher on the Buddhist ones, myself. It had quite an influence on me in my younger years.

edited 26th Oct '11 1:14:55 AM by Sakan4k

1. Eastern Orthodox (100%)
2. Roman Catholic (100%)
3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (90%)
4. Orthodox Quaker (85%)
5. Orthodox Judaism (85%)
6. Baha'i Faith (85%)
7. Seventh Day Adventist (84%)
8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (82%)
9. Islam (74%)
10. Sikhism (72%)
11. Hinduism (72%)
12. Liberal Quakers (63%)
13. Reform Judaism (58%)
14. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (57%)
15. Jehovah's Witness (55%)
16. Jainism (55%)
17. Unitarian Universalism (53%)
18. Mahayana Buddhism (46%)
19. Theravada Buddhism (44%)
20. Neo-Pagan (37%)
21. New Age (34%)
22. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (30%)
23. New Thought (30%)
24. Scientology (29%)
25. Nontheist (21%)
26. Secular Humanism (19%)
27. Taoism (15%)

It doesn't make a distinction between high and low church Protestant, which is a huge deal to me. Nor is there one between whether practices are ethical because of moral realism or divine command theory.

“Love is the eternal law whereby the universe was created and is ruled.” — St. Bernard

edited 21st Jun '17 5:23:27 AM by ArlaGrey

Zeus or Thor Sakan?

Let's make a TCG!

Apparently I'm:

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (92%)
3. Liberal Quakers (78%)

(Didn't feel like giving my e-mail for the whole thing.)

edited 26th Oct '11 7:56:53 AM by Jeysie

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (100%)
Jehovah's Witness (96%)
Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (79%)
Orthodox Quaker (78%)
Sikhism (75%)
Baha'i Faith (75%)
Orthodox Judaism (74%)
Liberal Quakers (73%)
Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (72%)
Eastern Orthodox (65%)
Roman Catholic (65%)
Islam (62%)
Reform Judaism (62%)
Unitarian Universalism (60%)
Seventh Day Adventist (58%)
Jainism (51%)
Mahayana Buddhism (47%)
Theravada Buddhism (45%)
Secular Humanism (44%)
Neo-Pagan (42%)
Hinduism (41%)
Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (40%)
Taoism (37%)
New Age (35%)
Nontheist (28%)
New Thought (26%)
Scientology (23%)

Huh. Apparently I'm more of a Mormon than I am a Witness even though I'm currently a Witness and have been once since I was a kid.

That's...interesting. I wonder what caused that result. It's particularly weird since I strongly disagree with several tenets of Mormon doctrine and answered the questions as to what I genuinely believe.

edited 26th Oct '11 8:09:15 AM by Accela

Unitarian Universalism (100%)

Secular Humanism (97%)

Nontheist (87%)

Theravada Buddhism (83%)

Liberal Quakers (75%)

Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (73%)

Neo-Pagan (71%)

Sikhism (64%)

Taoism (63%)

Reform Judaism (62%)

New Age (52%)

Mahayana Buddhism (50%)

Scientology (45%)

New Thought (43%)

Hinduism (37%)

Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (36%)

Jainism (35%)

Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (35%)

Baha'i Faith (33%)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (33%)

Orthodox Quaker (29%)

Orthodox Judaism (26%)

Seventh Day Adventist (26%)

Eastern Orthodox (24%)

Islam (24%)

Roman Catholic (24%)

Jehovah's Witness (6%)

edited 26th Oct '11 1:01:28 PM by tropetown

@ Justice: Thor

Huh, this looks interesting. *sees that I have to put in an e-mail* OK, fake e-mail time.

Your Top 3 Faith Match Profiles Are:

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Secular Humanism (98%)
3. Liberal Quakers (95%)

Good to know. Now, what does that mean? *Clicks links* Amazing how many times the words "diverse beliefs" appear in there.

One "belief" I like (but do not necessarily follow) is summed up in the tropes Gods Need Prayer Badly and Clap Your Hands If You Believe—the power an individual object or being has is proportional to the amount of faith people have in it.

edited 26th Oct '11 1:29:40 PM by Belian

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Heh, that was pretty much my result as well.

Clicking the links I discovered "Secular Humanism" is quite spot on for my own believes. I have no freaking idea for why the other two are so high, though. Yeah "diverse beliefs" appear a lot, but none of the specified match myself at all. Weird.

edited 26th Oct '11 1:36:31 PM by Heatth

"Secular Humanism" is labeled "diverse" because it's not really a religion, just a handy way of defining a certain position regarding religion; namely, not having one. The "humanism" in it is important because it prevents people from misreading notions of nihilism or lack of morality into a lack of religious faith.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.

"Q1. What is the number and nature of the deity (God, gods, higher power)?"

No "We cant know for sure" answer? Off to a great start.

Since it seems theres no Agnostic on here.

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (94%) 3. Liberal Quakers (92%)

edited 26th Oct '11 2:52:00 PM by Thorn14

This test really does lack a proper set of alternatives on some questions, but it isn't among the worst I've seen.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.

Now for some curiosity/OCD statistics related to this thread:

@ the majority being SH or UU: I like this line from Qeise (post 63) "Not being sure makes me a Secular Humanist. Which is cool." Sounds about right.

Also, Black Humor's quote from The Other Wiki (post 65)

The nice thing is that, while our opinions will often drown out everyone else, we will respect that they have different opinions and try to see it from their point of view. We might even change our view on a subject with the right argument.

edited 26th Oct '11 3:01:55 PM by Belian

Yu hav nat sein bod speeling unntil know. (cacke four undersandig tis)the cake is a lie!

More Neo-Pagans than Roman Catholics. I lol'd.

This is exactly the difference between religious fanaticism (/fundamentalism) and mainstream atheism. Most atheists would change their mind if they were shown evidence or a convincing logical argument for the existence of a supernatural entity.

I agree that it's more a philosophical and less a religious position.

As for the "dogma" part, it's not accurate to define it as "something that conforms to what I ('I' being the hypothetical Secular Humanist to whom an argument was being presented) already thought"

There are ways in which philosophy arrives at conclusions, and different people have different aproaches to them (and different degrees of experience in them, etc;) but it is not accurate to say that most Secular Humanists would only agree with an argument that supported the positions they previously held.

Instead, any argument that was more convincing than the ones that were the foundation of the previous position would change the mind of that person regarding that position. So most atheists could be converted to a religion if a sufficiently strong argument was made in favour of that religion. So you'd have to define Secular Humanist "dogma" as "rationalism and logical thinking", in the sense that those words are used in the definition of Secular Humanism.

This meaning of "dogma" is what I assume you meant in your post, but I wanted to clarify it anyway.

edited 26th Oct '11 4:22:28 PM by BestOf

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.

^^ Although at least one of those is not actually a Neo-Pagan (AFAIK).

^ But only if said argument conformed to Secular Humanist "dogma" (the principles a Secular Humanist would perceive as constituting a convincing logical argument). That said, I'd normally consider it a philosophical position, rather than a religious one.

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(was thinking/talking more about ideas in general than religious beliefs)

Yu hav nat sein bod speeling unntil know. (cacke four undersandig tis)the cake is a lie!

Well, tried again, to check for variance:

Well... Secular Humanism stayed the same (hm, I guess that works with agnosticism?), while Unitarian Universalism went up, Buddhism fell off the top three (I guess it's because I rated some things as higher/lower priority than last time. I don't recall) and the Quakers got up into the top three.

Not much change in my religious beliefs, it seems, regardless of how my political center goes this way and that.

I am now known as Flyboy.

@ Besty: Yes, that's what I meant. Hence the little quote marks around "dogma", to suggest it wouldn't normally be considered such.

Took the test again, mainly to keep this on topic, and got:

1. Reform Judaism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (83%)
3. Neo-Pagan (81%)

My religious beliefs haven't changed, so I guess it's probably to do with the priority I placed on the answers being slightly different (I am not Jewish, and I don't agree with Unitarian Universalism).

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Your Top 3 Faith Match Profiles Are: 1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 3. Neo-Pagan (91%) Your complete Belief-O-Matic Profile with your faith matches and explanations for each has been emailed to the address you recently provided. Share Your Results

The quiz is defective. I am a regular Pagan, even Neo-Pagan is better than those Gay religions they put on me.

edited 26th Oct '11 5:30:56 PM by Trotzky

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To say that something is secular is to say that it does not involve religious belief. Therefore, agnosticism is compatible with secularism.

edited 26th Oct '11 5:31:20 PM by BestOf

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Reform Judaism (97%)
3. Liberal Quakers (95%)
4. Neo-Pagan (85%)
5. Secular Humanism (84%)
6. Sikhism (78%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (75%)
8. New Age (73%)
9. Baha'i Faith (71%)
10. Jainism (69%)

It wasn't really set up for Deism, which is what I actually beleive.

Like I said, the Quiz is defective. IIRC Deism asserts that Jehovah pressed the Big Red Button and then left the Universe to do its stuff, but Theism asserts Jehovah keeps interfering.

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