Sunday 27 January 2008

Belief-O-Matic

This is one of my favorite personality quizzes. I take it every once in while, just to see the latest developments in my religious views.

Basically, you get to answer about 20 questions about various religious and social issues, and the software comes up with a sort of compatibility list, how well your views match with the teachings and precepts of 27 religious denominations.

What I've just realized is that my spirituality is not as chaotic as I tend to think. Each time I take the test, the same four or five faiths appear among the top five. And the first two hardly come as a surprise to me:


1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (79%)
3. Bahá'í Faith (75%)
4. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (74%)
5. Unitarian Universalism (72%)
6. Reform Judaism (69%)
7. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (63%)
8. Jehovah's Witness (62%)
9. Orthodox Quaker (59%)
10. Neo-Pagan (57%)
11. Orthodox Judaism (56%)
12. Sikhism (55%)
13. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (54%)
14. New Age (53%)
15. Mahayana Buddhism (50%)
16. Theravada Buddhism (48%)
17. New Thought (48%)
18. Eastern Orthodox (46%)
19. Roman Catholic (46%)
20. Seventh Day Adventist (45%)
21. Secular Humanism (44%)
22. Islam (41%)
23. Jainism (41%)
24. Scientology (40%)
25. Hinduism (39%)
26. Taoism (34%)
27. Nontheist (21%)

You can take the quiz at the Beliefnet website.

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