Belief-O-Matic

Your Results: er My Results:
The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa.Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.

How did the Belief-O-Matic do?

Well, I'm pleased to see that it acknowledges my shift toward the acceptance of many different ways to connect to God or practice spirituality. I'm quite surprised to see Reform Judaism at #2 and matching 99% of my beliefs, considering I really don't know what Reformed Jews believe, or do I?

And it's reassuring to note, that although in recent years my spiritual thinking has markedly changed from, "You don't believe in Jesus as your personal savior? I'm sorry, then you're going to hell, but I can help you with that. Here, take this Steps to Peace with God tract." to something more like, "Hey, you're doing what you can to make a connection to something bigger than yourself and applying that to your daily life? Well, good on ya, mate!" my ideas actually haven't drifted as far away from my Liberal Quaker friends (Friends, get it, haha) as they would have feared. (Is that a run on sentence? Let's just move on.)

Looking at the list again, I realize that, while of course I recognize the names of these major and minor religions and sects, I don't necessarily know what they believe, which leads me to a Life&Times of Michael5000-esque methodical inquiry into each of the religions on my list. Now, I long to be as methodical and thorough as M5K, but I am nowhere near as delighted by the slow tedium of the process as he is. Not at all. I will get bored with this, or in fact forget my own project altogether and move on to something else long before I've finished if I try to be just like him, which I'm very tempted to do. So, please, gentle readers, do not expect this to be a 27-month or 27-week adventure. I just don't think I have it in me. Having said that, I have every confidence that this will be a Kick in the Butt.

Here's my list:

1.
Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2.
Reform Judaism (99%)
3.
Liberal Quakers (97%)
4.
Mahayana Buddhism (92%)
5.
New Age (90%)
6.
Neo-Pagan (90%)
7.
Theravada Buddhism (88%)
8.
Sikhism (86%)
9.
Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (82%)
10.
Jainism (80%)
11.
Orthodox Quaker (72%)
12.
Taoism (71%)
13.
New Thought (71%)
14.
Orthodox Judaism (68%)
15.
Bahá'í Faith (66%)
16.
Scientology (65%)
17.
Hinduism (64%)
18.
Secular Humanism (64%)
19.
Islam (60%)
20.
Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (52%)
21.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (47%)
22.
Seventh Day Adventist (41%)
23.
Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (39%)
24.
Jehovah's Witness (37%)
25.
Nontheist (36%)
26.
Eastern Orthodox (25%)
27.
Roman Catholic (25%)


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