Faith selector

[Bas]

Not very surprising, I guess...

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Secular Humanism (98%)
3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (89%)
4. Liberal Quakers (84%)
5. Nontheist (78%)
6. Neo-Pagan (65%)
7. Theravada Buddhism (64%)
8. Bahá'à Faith (58%)
9. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (58%)
10. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (55%)

[Buck Birdseed]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
The Jewish calendar disagrees.

Yeah well, as everyone knows jews are just arabs without horses.

[Mr. President]

Ha. Ha. Ha.

[Urban Ranger]

Hmmm....

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (99%)
3. Liberal Quakers (90%)
4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (88%)
5. Nontheist (71%) 6. Theravada Buddhism (68%)
7. Neo-Pagan (64%)
8. Bahá'à Faith (56%)
9. New Age (54%)
10. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (49%)

[self biased]

1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (97%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (97%)
4. Neo-Pagan (82%)
5. Secular Humanism (74%)
6. Bahá'à Faith (74%)
7. Theravada Buddhism (73%)
8. Mahayana Buddhism (73%)
9. Nontheist (67%)
10. Taoism (67%)
11. New Age (65%)
12. New Thought (58%)
13. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (56%)
14. Reform Judaism (54%)
15. Orthodox Quaker (46%)
16. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (46%)
17. Scientology (44%)
18. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (41%)
19. Hinduism (40%)
20. Jainism (37%)
21. Sikhism (34%)
22. Seventh Day Adventist (26%)
23. Jehovah's Witness (25%)
24. Orthodox Judaism (24%)
25. Eastern Orthodox (20%)
26. Roman Catholic (20%)
27. Islam (17%)

[Boris Godunov]

I'm surprised more aren't secular humanists above all esle. I am agnostic, not atheist, but they seem to lump them all in together with the "not sure" options

[Stefu]

I'm wondering whether persons who got UU answered to questions something other than "Not applicable" to questions like "Environmental protection is important".

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Stefu
I'm wondering whether persons who got UU answered to questions something other than "Not applicable" to questions like "Environmental protection is important".

I checked, answering "not applicable" to everything (except on the first page, where I chose "not sure"), and UU came out on top (with non-theism and secular humanism both at 96%). I tried again, this time answering "none of the above" for everything on the first page (in other words, choosing the bottom choice in all cases), and I got:

1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Bahá'à Faith (81%)
3. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (81%)
4. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (81%)
5. Jehovah's Witness (81%)
6. Liberal Quakers (62%)
7. Unitarian Universalism (62%)
8. Nontheist (56%)
9. Secular Humanism (56%)
10. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (54%)

From what I can tell from the results, UU's must be the ultimate fence-sitters.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I'm surprised more aren't secular humanists above all esle. I am agnostic, not atheist, but they seem to lump them all in together with the "not sure" options

Okay, maybe you can clear something up for me. I don't see how somebody can say that they don't believe in god(s) but aren't an atheist. I mean, "theist" means "somebody who believes in god(s)," so "atheist" must mean "somebody who does not believe in god(s)," so the two terms ought to cover everybody. A lot of agnostics say "Well I'm not an atheist, because I 'doubt' the existence of god(s), unlike the atheists who 'don't believe' in the existence of god(s)," or something along those lines. But isn't doubt the opposite of belief? Are they saying that they don't believe in the existence of god(s) but that it makes them uncomfortable to say so, or what? Or that they believe in god(s) every other day, and the rest of the time they don't? Could you explain the difference between "not believing" in god(s) and "doubting" god(s)? Because they certainly seem like the exact same thing to me...

[Traianvs]

i answered not applicable to the question concerning belief in God etc, but about the environment i said i agree we should pay attention to it...and i got UU on top

i'm atheist though

[Maniac]

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (90%)
3. Liberal Quakers (88%)
4. Secular Humanism (83%)
5. Taoism (83%)
6. Neo-Pagan (77%)
7. Nontheist (76%)
8. Mahayana Buddhism (75%)
9. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (74%)
10. New Thought (72%)

Seems pretty ok. Now just find out what quakers and mainline liberal protestants exactly are...

Edit: after reading a few explanations I must conclude the test isn't quite good. I cannot find myself at all in the three first faiths as I'm not a christian.

Edit2: Secular Humanism and Taoism (both 83%) represent very well what I believe though! Great book indeed btw, Capra's Tao of Physics!

[Ramo]

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (99%)
3. Liberal Quakers (87%)
4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (85%)
5. Nontheist (72%)
6. Theravada Buddhism (68%)
7. Neo-Pagan (65%)
8. Bahá'à Faith (51%)
9. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (51%)
10. New Age (49%)
11. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (48%)
12. Reform Judaism (46%)
13. Taoism (42%)
14. Orthodox Quaker (40%)
15. Mahayana Buddhism (39%)
16. Jehovah's Witness (38%)
17. New Thought (38%)
18. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (36%)
19. Sikhism (34%)
20. Scientology (33%)
21. Jainism (26%)
22. Hinduism (21%)
23. Seventh Day Adventist (21%)
24. Eastern Orthodox (19%)
25. Islam (19%)
26. Orthodox Judaism (19%)
27. Roman Catholic (19%)

Similar to what I had last time, IIRC.

[Chowlett]

dp, due to Apolyton.

[Chowlett]

1. Orthodox Quaker (100%)
2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (86%)
3. Seventh Day Adventist (85%)
4. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (83%)
5. Liberal Quakers (70%)
6. Eastern Orthodox (66%)
7. Roman Catholic (66%)
8. Unitarian Universalism (60%)
9. Bahá'à Faith (59%)
10. Orthodox Judaism (58%)
11. Islam (55%)
12. Reform Judaism (55%)
13. Sikhism (48%)
14. Mahayana Buddhism (43%)
15. Theravada Buddhism (43%)
16. Jainism (42%)
17. Neo-Pagan (40%)
18. Hinduism (40%)
19. New Age (37%)
20. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (37%)
21. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (36%)
22. Secular Humanism (35%)
23. Taoism (34%)
24. Scientology (34%)
25. Jehovah's Witness (28%)
26. Nontheist (28%)
27. New Thought (25%)

Close enough, I guess. Nice to see the first 7 are all Christian denominations. Somewhat surprised to see Quaker as top, but reading the description it's not too far off. As for "Mainline to Liberal", I'd like that reworded to "Liberal to just-plain-wrong Christian", from the description...

Oh - and the Christian calendar, being based on the Jewish one, should have Sunday as the first day.

[pg]

1. Nontheist (100%)
2. Secular Humanism (90%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (89%)
4. Theravada Buddhism (77%)
5. Liberal Quakers (73%)
6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (66%)
7. Bahá'à Faith (64%)
8. Jainism (56%)
9. Seventh Day Adventist (56%)
10. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (54%)
11. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (53%)
12. Orthodox Quaker (52%)
13. Jehovah's Witness (50%)
14. Hinduism (47%)
15. Eastern Orthodox (44%)
16. Islam (44%)
17. Orthodox Judaism (44%)
18. Roman Catholic (44%)
19. Neo-Pagan (41%)
20. Sikhism (40%)
21. Mahayana Buddhism (36%)
22. Taoism (35%)
23. New Age (31%)
24. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (19%)
25. Reform Judaism (18%)
26. New Thought (10%)
27. Scientology (2%)

i answered most of the questions with things other than 'not applicable' too.