I took this Belief Quiz at BeliefNet. It was actually pretty accurate.
1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (94%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (90%)
4. Baha’i Faith (81%)
5. Neo-Pagan (78%)
6. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (73%)
7. New Age (73%)
8. Reform Judaism (73%)
9. Secular Humanism (67%)
10. New Thought (66%)
11. Orthodox Quaker (59%)
12. Scientology (59%)
13. Theravada Buddhism (59%)
14. Mahayana Buddhism (58%)
15. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (56%)
16. Taoism (52%)
17. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (52%)
18. Orthodox Judaism (47%)
19. Nontheist (44%)
20. Sikhism (44%)
21. Islam (41%)
22. Jainism (35%)
23. Jehovah’s Witness (34%)
24. Seventh Day Adventist (32%)
25. Hinduism (28%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (25%)
27. Roman Catholic (25%)
#1 includes Anglican or Episcopalian faiths of which I was brought up in. I enjoy the Episcopal religion because it allows me to question and doesn’t condemn me for not attending church. Although I feel the need for such regimen, it isn’t practical with my current fears and foibles. I am “workin’ on it” though.
#2 doesn’t surprise me at all. I have a very strong Quaker background on my mother’s side of the family and there have been times when I’ve been attracted to the simplicity it offers. There is a Quaker-based church here and it is one I might go to if the Episcopalian cathedral is a bit overwhelming.
Just for curiosity’s sake, I took that quiz — and promptly tossed it out on its ear. :) It’s a poorly designed and inherently biased survey. Most of the questions are stilted toward Christianity, as are most of the answers, and several of the possible responses either preclude other belief systems entirely or lump several together into one response. My results were pretty far off-base as a result. That survey was definitely not vetted by professional survey writers, let alone tested in focus groups. But then again, I’m not terribly surprised.
It was fun to take, anyway. :)
You’re quite right, Jim. I did come across a few questions I couldn’t answer the way I would have because they were either too general, or my response would have been between two or three answers instead of one.
I’ve got a bit of a background in survey design, so I actually have a lot of fun deconstructing web surveys and mocking bad design. :D