Tuesday, 9 October 2007

Belief-O-Matic


Just to give you all a sense of how I scored on the Belief-O-Matic quiz. I've taken this quiz a while back and thought I'd like to take it again. Maybe you readers can take it and post your results here in the comments.

It's funny, the quiz comes with a disclaimer, I was crackin' up:
"Warning: Belief-O-Matic™ assumes no legal liability for the ultimate fate of your soul."

LOL.
1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (91%)
3. Nontheist (78%)
4. Liberal Quakers (74%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (68%)
6. Neo-Pagan (63%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (57%)
8. Taoism (49%)
9. New Age (46%)
10. Reform Judaism (39%)
11. Orthodox Quaker (37%)
12. Mahayana Buddhism (36%)
13. Sikhism (26%)
14. Scientology (25%)
15. Bahá'í Faith (23%)
16. New Thought (22%)
17. Jainism (22%)
18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (19%)
19. Seventh Day Adventist (17%)
20. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (16%)
21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (14%)
22. Hinduism (13%)
23. Eastern Orthodox (10%)
24. Islam (10%)
25. Orthodox Judaism (10%)
26. Roman Catholic (10%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (6%)
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12 comments:

  1. Modusoperandi9 October 2007 at 17:45

    I've taken this test before, and some of the questions still stick out as "tricky", which leads to sticky results (as I'll demonstrate later on).

    #11, for instance
    Doing good works (deeds) and acting compassionately is: Necessary/Not necessary/Not Applicable. is bad question. Necessary for what? Salvation? Spirituality? I try to do good because it's the right to do (that pesky Golden Rule). Is that spiritual? I don't think so. I think that this question is more for the Catholic/Protestant split, but how should I answer? See, tricky...

    #12, meanwhile, has no "atheist" answers. I see Jewish, Christian, Budhist, Hindu, etc. The last option Humankind is "saved" through human effort rather than through religious or spiritual means is meant as the "atheist" answer, I think, but it uses "saved" in a different way than I'd use it ("improved", "made better" would be better terms to use, IMO).

    So, I'm:
    1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
    2. Secular Humanism (97%)
    3. Theravada Buddhism (91%)
    4. Liberal Quakers (84%)
    5. Neo-Pagan (82%)

    The results are skewed because I tend to pick the Buddhist choices (where they don't rely on the supernatural), and UU showed up first because it's the religion that can't make up its mind. All I remember about them is that they never mention god or gods or whatever and they like candles, for some reason. #3 is odd because I'm only Buddhist in the vaguest sense (The four level of enlightenment is riddled with bafflegab, for one thing). #4 is odd because, for the violence/pacifism/not applicable, I picked violence, because pacifism is nice until somebody has a knife to your kid's throat and "not applicable" is no choice at all. I must admit, however, that I do like a good barn raisin'.

    And WTF is a neo-pagan, anyway? As far as I know, Neo-pagans are homeopathy-lovin', anti-modernity (with the attendant "rose-coloured" glasses view of how things used to be), anti-science (because it has the audacity to call quack medicine, "quack medicine"), "crystal power" oddities of the highest order. I'm weird, but I'm not that kind of weird.

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  2. tina FCD9 October 2007 at 19:44

    1. Secular Humanism (100%)
    2. Unitarian Universalism (93%)
    3. Liberal Quakers (83%)
    4. Neo-Pagan (73%)
    5. Nontheist (72%)
    6. Theravada Buddhism (69%)
    7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)
    8. Taoism (62%)
    9. New Age (58%)
    10. Mahayana Buddhism (53%)
    11. Reform Judaism (48%)
    12. Orthodox Quaker (46%)
    13. Sikhism (40%)
    14. Jainism (35%)
    15. Bahá'í Faith (32%)
    16. Scientology (31%)
    17. New Thought (28%)
    18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (24%)
    19. Hinduism (21%)
    20. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (20%)
    21. Seventh Day Adventist (20%)
    22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (18%)
    23. Eastern Orthodox (13%)
    24. Islam (13%)
    25. Orthodox Judaism (13%)
    26. Roman Catholic (13%)
    27. Jehovah's Witness (5%)

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  3. a10 October 2007 at 04:20

    Have always refused to do such silly tests. Labels are not important. How about non-religionist?

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  4. Pyramidhead10 October 2007 at 07:26

    I'm going with jerk! Does that work...because it works for me.

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  5. tina FCD10 October 2007 at 08:25

    I thought it was kind of interesting. Bob:you are hilarious!

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  6. Unknown10 October 2007 at 14:02

    I thought it would just be something fun to do. I don't particularly put much stock in it myself. I just wanted to post something a bit less polarizing. To take a breather so to speak.

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  7. tina FCD10 October 2007 at 15:30

    Good for you!

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  8. Pyramidhead10 October 2007 at 17:19

    cool Daddy-ooo

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  9. Splinters of Silver11 October 2007 at 06:59

    I'll agree with modusoperandi, that some of the choices of answers to the questions are less than desireable.

    1. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (100%)
    2. Seventh Day Adventist (90%)
    3. Islam (89%)
    4. Orthodox Judaism (89%)
    5. Orthodox Quaker (84%)
    6. Eastern Orthodox (77%)
    7. Roman Catholic (77%)
    8. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (73%)
    9. Jainism (70%)
    10. Jehovah's Witness (68%)
    11. Bahá'í Faith (66%)
    12. Hinduism (63%)
    13. Sikhism (57%)
    14. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (55%)
    15. Reform Judaism (53%)
    16. Mahayana Buddhism (49%)
    17. Liberal Quakers (47%)
    18. Theravada Buddhism (40%)
    19. Unitarian Universalism (39%)
    20. Neo-Pagan (37%)
    21. Nontheist (34%)
    22. Scientology (31%)
    23. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (30%)
    24. New Age (29%)
    25. New Thought (25%)
    26. Secular Humanism (22%)
    27. Taoism (20%)

    Tim

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  10. tina FCD11 October 2007 at 07:08

    I have never seen the results of a religious person's results. Cool.

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  11. Anonymous11 October 2007 at 07:57

    I've taken this test four times and I still don't like it. Like ModusOperandi, I take issue with the fact that the test seems focused on "salvation." Well, not all religions believe in salvation (or even enlightenment, for that matter).

    1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
    2. Unitarian Universalism (81%)
    3. New Age (79%)
    4. Mahayana Buddhism (75%)
    5. Liberal Quakers (64%)
    6. Reform Judaism (63%)
    7. Jainism (62%)
    8. Secular Humanism (60%)
    9. Hinduism (56%)
    10. Theravada Buddhism (56%)
    11. Sikhism (53%)
    12. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (49%)
    13. Bahá'í Faith (47%)
    14. New Thought (47%)
    15. Orthodox Judaism (45%)
    16. Scientology (44%)
    17. Taoism (44%)
    18. Nontheist (42%)
    19. Islam (36%)
    20. Orthodox Quaker (32%)
    21. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (27%)
    22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (18%)
    23. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (16%)
    24. Seventh Day Adventist (13%)
    25. Eastern Orthodox (12%)
    26. Roman Catholic (12%)
    27. Jehovah's Witness (4%)

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  12. Unknown12 October 2007 at 14:12

    Maybe I can find another quiz and extrapolate the results.

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