What faith group best matched your beliefs? How did the results coincide with your current religious affiliation?

I came out as a Unitarian Universalist, followed closely by Liberal Quaker. I'll probably just continue to keep my Sundays free for dim sum and gardening, though.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Answers

I scored Unitarian Universalist, closely followed by atheist/agnostic. I've been calling myself agnostic for quite some time now, as organized religion makes me itch, but these Unitarian folks don't seem so bad, maybe.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

I got Neopagan, followed by Unitarian Universalist, then Theraveda Buddhism.

I consider myself a Neopagan and have been one for 12 years of so. In fact, I'm happy because I just found a circle of similar people in the area where I live. I've also been involved in Theraveda buddhism.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Unitarian/Universalist followed by Neo-Pagan.

I was raised Episcopalian and haven't been to or thought about church since childhood. If I were inclined to search for spiritual guidance I suppose the liberal views of the Unitarian church would be worth exploring, but I don't think Neo-Paganism is in my future - I have a problem with anything related to "magick".

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Unitarian, then Humanist. Which isn't too surprising to me.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Orthodox Quaker! Wasn't expecting that... it was followed closely by moderate Protestant, which I am, so that makes sense.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Unitarian Universalist, which means nothing to me and seems like one of those mushy indecisive all-inclusive thingies; then Liberal Quaker, which pleases me because the Quakers I know are committed to liberal political activism (because if you believe in peace, you should promote pacifism and not just loll about and moan about war); Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist, neither strain of which I know much about but which I respect; Neo-Pagan, which is how I would generally define myself except I'm earth-based rather than multiple-diety based, which the selector didn't allow.

But overall I'm an Irish Setter with Cocker Spaniel tendencies.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism and. . . something else.

So, dead on the money.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Liberal Protestant (like Luteran, etc...), followed by Liberal Quaker tied with Unitarian Universalist.

I've been thinking about stopping by a Universalist Church...

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Humanist, with UU and Agnostic in close running for 2nd.

Close enough.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Did I miss the link to this? I must have. If it isn't any trouble, would somebody post the link to this test?

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

I came out with 100 atheist/agnostic, 98 humanist, and 97 uu.

Does this match my beliefs? Pretty much.

I was raised Catholic until shortly before I should have been confirmed. I had to tell my mother that I didn't share her belief in God. She's still angry at me for that one.

So where does Roman Catholic fall on my list here? 3rd from the bottom.

(In case anyone else missed the link for this, it's at http://www.selectsmart.com/RELIGION/)

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

My test results lited me as a Neo-Pagan (Score 100). I took the Pagan Path Test, and my #1 score was Wiccan.

Bang on.

My lowest score was Jehovah's Witness. I scored a mere 7.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

I came out as Neopagan, followed (not closely) by New Age, Unitarian Universalist, Mahayana Buddhist, Baha'i, and Liberal Quaker. Generally a pretty interesting group. And since I usually just say I'm a pagan pantheist, I guess it came out right.

On the Pagan Path Selector I came out as Druid, followed by Asatru and Greek.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Since I asked for the link, I thought I might as well share mine.

Theravada Buddhist=100, uu=97, liberal quaker=92

Seems to be right on, actually.

My boyfriend had 100% humanist. He didn't need to take the test to find that out.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Here are my scores: Roman Catholic...click to learn more (score = 100) Eastern Orthodox...click to learn more (score = 100) Mainline to Conservative Protestant...click to learn more (score = 87) Orthodox Quaker...click to learn more (score = 85)

Fairly accurate test. I'm closest aligned with Free Will Baptist ideas, but I prefer to find mainstream, conservative non- denominational churches. This is sometimes hard to do because there are just some ideas I can't see a church supporting.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Reform Judaism, Liberal Quaker, Orthodox Judaism

Mighty accurate, there.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

I got Unitarian, New Age, Neo-Pagan, then Liberal Quaker. (I have no religion, though.)

The funniest part was the five lowest-ranked religions I got: R Catholic, Mormons, Jehovah's Ws, 7 Day Adventists, and dead last was conservative Protestants.

Maybe I should go scope out the Unitarians and see what they have to say. I miss singing in choir. But "Liberal Quaker" sounds really cool, doesn't it? I always admired the Quakers for helping with the Underground Railroad and stuff.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Hilarious! I scored 100 for Latter Day, and 72 for both Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox.

I'm a Catholic, so I suppose it's pretty close, I don't support anti- homosexuality or anti-divorce, or prescribed roles for men and women, which must have tipped the balance.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

New Age, seconded closely by Mahayana Buddhist. I don't know how accurate these are, as I'm very uncertain about the whole shebang right now. Very interesting, though.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

1st place was Unitarian Universalist, 2nd Neo-Pagan, 3rd Liberal Quaker. Odd. Never considered myself to be anything before except a human being. Interesting to take the test. I am personally self- governed by the law of physics and also this: FREE WILL. What I find fascinating is that people have to label themselves. Anyone out there: if you have pets, and are Catholic, for example...are your dogs also Catholic? What happens to them when they die? Are your cats Jewish? Do you think the "afterlife" only applies to humans? I'm not trying to be snotty...just curious. A friend of a friend had a religious funeral for his dog. I personally don't think the dog cared, but it was nice for the humans. I mean, did the dog want a Lutheran ceremony? How did they know the dog didn't have Baptist tendencies? And don't get me wrong, I LOVE animals...1 dog, 2 cats, 1 ferret, 3 birds. I'm also not against religions, and sorry, I'm not trying to make fun of them. I think they're great if it works for you.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Well, my first slot was Unitarian Universalist, my third was Neo Pagan, and my fourth was Liberal Quaker. All of these have their appeal for me... My second slot, however, was filled by Scientology! Yipes! Where the hell did that come fro

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

What an interesting link! I was quite surprised by my results:

Neo-Pagan...click to learn more (score = 100)

New Age...click to learn more (score = 100)

Unitarian Universalist...click to learn more (score = 92)

Mahayana Buddhist...click to learn more (score = 82)

I grew up in Buddhism, so to see it pop up relatively lowish was interesting.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

I don't consider myself a particular religon, I have my own ideas on the topic, but once I looked at the descriptions of some of those, they seemed reasonably (but not completley) accurate. Very interesting, though.

1. New Age (score = 100)

2. Neo-Pagan (score = 94)

3. Mahayana Buddhist (score = 85)

4. Unitarian Universalist (score = 84)

5. Scientology (score = 81)

I thought the lowest ranking ones were just as interesting, if not more.

Atheist/Agnostic (score = 26)

Seventh Day Adventist (score = 24)

Jehovah's Witness (score = 18)

Mainline to Conservative Protestant (score = 9)



-- Anonymous, August 05, 2000

Unitarian Universalist, followed by Humanist, Atheist/Agnostic, Mahayana/Theravada Buddhists, Mainline/liberal Protestant, Liberal Quaker and Neo-Pagan. Those were all the ones I scored more than 50 for (lowest score was 8 for Jehovah's Witness). I find the Buddhist ones most fascinating since I never ticked anything to do with rebirths. Atheist/agnostic is probably closest to the truth.

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2000

Well, well well.

I'm a chalice-carrying Unitarian Universalist, and my test came out as Unitarian Universalist 100%. *grin*

(And yes, it is a wishy-washy all-inclusive liberal church, but that's why I like it: no one leaning over my shoulder telling me what I should/shouldn't be doing with my soul.)

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2000

My results:

Liberal Quaker (score = 100) Reform Judaism (score = 98) Mainline to Liberal Protestant (score = 94) Orthodox Judaism (score = 91)

I was actually more fascinated with how I took the test than with my results. I was raised Jewish (conservative, which in spite of its name is between reform and orthodox), and regardless of the fact that I don't keep kosher and rarely go to synagogue, I *am* Jewish; it's an innate part of my identity. So concepts such as immediate judgment and incarnation of god(s) are simply impossible for me to accept for my own belief structure. But as I took the test, I kept thinking, would I believe this if I weren't Jewish? I mean, do I believe what I believe *because* I believe it?

I've been thinking about religion a lot for the last several months, in part because of becoming friends with a Catholic woman who's just become a contemplative nun (we met at the abortion clinic where I escorted and she peacefully protested). I cannot be Christian; it comes down to that. And I'm not sure whether that's because Judaism has always been more than a religion to me (a cultural identity), or what. I'm really not sure how I scored so high on protestantism!

The Quaker thing surprised me a little, too. Wonder if my Quaker friend will be amused (or appalled...).

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2000

Huh. Top 3= New Age, Neo Pagan and Hindu. Guess I'd better stop making fun of the new-agers! The Hindu thing surprised me, but I can't shake my belief in reincarnation, so I guess it shouldn't have. I've believed in reincarnation since before I knew what it was (pre- school age); some of my earliest "spiritual" thoughts were about reincarnation. Don't know why I believe in it, it doesn't make any real sense (especially mathematically!)

The religion I'm most drawn to in a lot of ways (except for the christianity part :)) is Mennonite, which wasn't really addressed. I'm also fascinated with Shakers (although the no sex belief was an obvious problem.) I like the communal, simple living focus. After developing an interest in these religions, I found out that my paternal ancestors were Amish and Mennonite. Hmmmm.

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2000

I seemed to fall in with the trends here...

100 for Unitarian Universalist, 95 for Neo-Pagan and Mahayana Buddhist, followed up by New Age, Liberal Quaker, and Theravada Buddhist.

I saved the descriptions page to check out later.

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2000

I went over and took the Pagan test and came out #1 Egyptian, #2 Wicca, #3 Thelema, #4 Shaman, #5 Asatru, #6 Druid, #7 Greek. I consider myself a Wiccan and don't have any interest in Egyptian, so it makes me want to go back and answer the questions differently to see if I can figure out why it came out that way.

Dorothy, I'd say that being Jewish is both a religion and a culture. I have many friends who aren't at all observant but consider themselves Jewish culturally.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

Neo-Pagan (score = 100)

New Age (score = 99) Unitarian Universalist (score = 84) Hindu (score = 83) Liberal Quaker (score = 82)

Sounds about right. I read tarot, occasionally 'pray' to whatever's out there, "center" myself through meditation and ascribe to the general moral directives of a mishmash of faiths including the Judeo-Christian tradition, Buddhism, Hinduism and Wicca.

I have very strong spiritual inclinations and very strong principles, but prefer not to follow the strictures of most mainstream religions.

I view the approach to the divine as a keenly personal matter that only each person can devise for themselves.

I also believe that 'worship' can take place at any time, at either a conscious or sub-conscious level.

In other words ... loose, but present.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

I think the test has some problems on the atheist end of the spectrum -- I entered all the nonbeliever-type answers, with all the importance meters set to minimum, and it suggested I should be a Unitarian, with atheist following shortly afterward. This strikes me as backwards; to an atheist, religion is a nonissue, something you wouldn't even really think about if circumstances didn't require it; Unitarians clearly place a higher importance on it, since they actually have meeting houses and get together on a regular basis to discuss matters. To use a typical sports analogy, Unitarians would go to football games on a regular basis, but wouldn't root for any particular team, while it would never occur to an atheist to buy a ticket.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000