Retake your Belief-O-Matic to see how much your thinking has changed

[Breathe]

Heh. It'd be amazing, but odd, to see Cao Dai on that.

 

[dallas1125]

1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (89%)
3. Jehovah's Witness (81%)
4. Liberal Quakers (75%)
5. Baha'i Faith (73%)
6. Unitarian Universalism (71%)
7. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (70%)
8. Sikhism (63%)
9. Orthodox Quaker (60%)
10. Reform Judaism (56%)
11. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (54%)
12. Orthodox Judaism (54%)
13. Hinduism (49%)
14. Mahayana Buddhism (48%)
15. Theravada Buddhism (47%)
16. Jainism (46%)
17. Eastern Orthodox (45%)
18. Roman Catholic (45%)
19. Secular Humanism (43%)
20. Seventh Day Adventist (43%)
21. Neo-Pagan (43%)
22. Islam (39%)
23. New Age (36%)
24. New Thought (36%)
25. Taoism (33%)
26. Nontheist (29%)
27. Scientology (28%)

 

[Riverwolf]

I agree. UU needs to be removed, because anyone can apply to that.

Add more LHP religions.

Break Hinduism and Neo-Paganism up into more defined categories.

Add the reconstructionist religions, as well. I think they're lumped in with Neo-Paganism, but I tend to separate the two; I think of Neo-Paganism as Wicca and its offshoots, and those aren't anything like reconstructionist religions.

 

[Alex_G]

My primary issue with the test was its seeming bias, and emotionally loaded language, promoting or drawing attention to some answers over others. In another way, the atheistic option was dumbed down, in an unattractive manner to look like an 'other' option that’s usually added to the bottom of such questionnaires as an afterthought. No quality control to ensure equal 'presence' of the answers, allowing fairer choosing.

Saying that i did like the inclusion of an option to grade ones conviction.

Alex

 

[Penumbra]

The test seems relatively accurate for the top choices, but as one goes down the list, it begins lacking in sense.

I'm not 62% Neo-Pagan, and I'm not 60% Main/Lib Protestant. These results likely came from the fact that some of my views on morality coincide with theirs, but morality does not a religion make.

 

[Breathe]

I was actually wondering that, Penumbra. A lot of questions seem to be about ethics, morality, and so on - not about religion.

Some of the questions and understandings of the religion seem a bit, well, superficial too, sadly.

 

[Penumbra]

I was actually wondering that, Penumbra. A lot of questions seem to be about ethics, morality, and so on - not about religion.

Some of the questions and understandings of the religion seem a bit, well, superficial too, sadly.

I find that ethics and morality can be useful on this sort of thing, but they only apply after the strictly religious topics are answered.

For instance, my views on abortion or homosexuality may distinguish me between "Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants" and "Mainline to Conservative Christian Protestants", but only if I'm a Christian Protestant to begin with.

It could be said that I have more in common with the former group than the latter group, but phrasing it in such a way to say that I am "X% this religion" isn't appropriate.

 

[Breathe]

Yeah, I agree.

But for example, there is no line between a "Mainline to Liberal" or "Mainline to Conservative". Wouldn't one know they were more likely to be liberal if they opposed abortion, for example?

Would someone be likely to associate with a group with whom they held little in common with outside of religious beliefs, unless they had to (i.e., there was only one congregation about)? What do you think?

 

[Penumbra]

Would someone be likely to associate with a group with whom they held little in common with outside of religious beliefs, unless they had to (i.e., there was only one congregation about)? What do you think?

I'm not sure. Some people do go church-shopping, and the phrase "find a new church" has been used commonly in my observation.

But I'm not really sure the process people go through when finding a church. I've never been in a position to do this, and their thought process when doing such would likely be very foreign to my own.

 

[Breathe]

Yeah, that is true. I don't know if there's an easy way make a quiz since people can be so unique. Some people may not give religious morality a consideration, focusing on their own moral ethics.

Tricky one, this.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

For me the 88% Sikhism is where my results get iffy and then the 80% New Age. I think Liberal Protestant could be accurate, since I am a Christian Gnostic. 100% Mahayana was no surprise.

 

[Orias]

Is there a link anyone can give me to take something like this?

 

[YmirGF]

Heh. It'd be amazing, but odd, to see Cao Dai on that.

Or Choodianism.

 

[YmirGF]

Is there a link anyone can give me to take something like this?

Belief-O-Matic- Beliefnet.com

 

[Orias]

Thanks


Here's mine.


1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Mahayana Buddhism (94%) 3. Neo-Pagan (93%) 4. Theravada Buddhism (92%) 5. New Age (91%) 6. Liberal Quakers (89%) 7. Taoism (80%) 8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (73%) 9. Secular Humanism (72%) 10. Jainism (70%) 11. Hinduism (67%) 12. New Thought (65%) 13. Scientology (64%) 14. Orthodox Quaker (62%) 15. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (57%) 16. Reform Judaism (57%) 17. Sikhism (51%) 18. Nontheist (49%) 19. Baha'i Faith (46%) 20. Orthodox Judaism (33%) 21. Seventh Day Adventist (32%) 22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (28%) 23. Islam (28%) 24. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (26%) 25. Jehovah's Witness (15%) 26. Eastern Orthodox (13%) 27. Roman Catholic (13%)

 

[Alceste]

My primary issue with the test was its seeming bias, and emotionally loaded language, promoting or drawing attention to some answers over others.

I thought so too. For some questions, like belief in a deity, it makes no sense to lump "there is no god" together with "don't know, other, or not important". That annoyed me. A few times I picked that option and gave it maximum importance just to mess with their heads.

 

[Penumbra]

I thought so too. For some questions, like belief in a deity, it makes no sense to lump "there is no god" together with "don't know, other, or not important". That annoyed me. A few times I picked that option and gave it maximum importance just to mess with their heads.

I gave most of those maximum importance too, because while they aren't too important for my life, they are very important when it comes to labeling me with a religion.

 

[Orias]

I wonder why they don't consider putting Satanism or at least some form of LHP.