Belief-o-matic

[carolinayellowdog]

Last edited Tue Feb 17, 2015, 03:51 PM - Edit history (1)

Beliefnet offers this 20-question quiz which yields scores for various belief systems, showing the extent to which your own beliefs coincide with them. I had taken it ten or more years ago, and remembered only that the UUs were my highest match at 100%. Having recently delved into research on Unitarian history, and started to visit a UU Fellowship, I took it again out of curiosity to see what the other matches were. Here are my results-- comments follow.

Unitarian Universalism Unitarian Universalism
You have Unitarian Universalism beliefs (100%)
Click on any religion below for more information on different beliefs and faiths.

Taoism(88%)
Liberal Quakerism(81%)
New Age(77%)
Church of Christ, Scientist(73%)
New Thought(73%)
Scientology(68%)
Jainism(65%)
Mahayana Buddhism(65%)
Neo-Paganism(65%)
Secular Humanism(62%)
Liberal Christian Protestantism(57%)
Reformed Judaism(52%)
Sikhism(50%)
Hinduism(49%)
Theravada Buddhism(49%)
Orthodox Quakerism(40%)
Bahá'í Faith(35%)
Atheism(35%)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints(23%)
Islam(21%)
Conservative Christian Protestant(19%)
Seventh-day Adventists(17%)
Orthodox Judaism(14%)
Roman Catholicism(12%)
Eastern Orthodox Christianity(12%)
Jehovah's Witnesses(12%)

Comment-- the wide gaps between Liberal and Orthodox Quakerism, Reform and Orthodox Judaism, Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism, Liberal and Conservative Protestantism, definitely fit the attractions and repulsions I feel toward the more liberal and conservative ends of any faith tradition. But it seems unfair to categorize all Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians at the same extreme end of the liberal-conservative spectrum as Jehovah's Witnesses, which my scores seem to indicate the test algorithm does. In practice if not in theory, US Catholics are as liberal as Protestants if not more so, seems like.