Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Don't know which religion you are? Take a simple quiz to find out!

I just the Belief System Selector quiz with surprising results. I was pretty skeptical of it, because it only had 20 questions with about 5 answers per question and many of the answers seemed to be clearly leading to one particular religion or another. I mean, how can a computer figure out the essence of my internal soul with so few data fields?

There were several questions where I felt that my answer diverged from Christianity - I didn't answer the typical "Jesus is the way to heaven" type answer. I thought for sure that the computer was going to think I was Taoist (I only identified 72% with Taoism). An yet...my top 3 matches were:

#3 - Unitarian Universalism (90% compatibility)
#2 - Liberal Quakers (97% compatibility)

and...

#1 - Liberal Christian Protestant (100%)

Is my belief system so obvious? Have I been indoctrinated? Do I think I'm a free-minded person when really I'm just buying into a pre-established belief system? Well, being a self-proclaimed free-thinker, I prefer to analyze my results in a different way. The miscellany of [Liberal] Christianity.

Editors note to those who want to take the quiz for themselves: It will try to make you think you have to register at the end of it to get your results, but if you click on "Click HERE to go directly to your results" in the yellow bar at the top of the screen, you can bypass all of the solicitations. Have fun!


According to SelectSmart.com's Spiritual Belief Systems quiz, my #1 belief match is LIBERAL CHRISTIAN.
What do you believe?
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4 comments:

'ziek said...

Yeah, I came out 100% Reformed Jewish. This test is totally prophetic. I think my new religion is going to be this test.

Eli said...

Apparently I should convert. While I identify as and was baptized and confirmed a Roman Catholic (granted, a bad one at that - I rarely go to church, and that whole "being gay" thing sometimes gets in the way), it was way down at #5 on my list. I think what most surprises me is that this "revelation" by some stupid computer quiz actually really bothers me on some scale. While my political beliefs are not in line with the Church, I still believe in and pray to St. Anthony when I lose an item (and it works i swear!) - that's got to count for something, right?
You can catch me this Sunday at St. Boniface's 0730 mass, reclaiming my Catholicism. Thanks, Ginger, for reinstituting my Catholic guilt - although I'm pretty sure that, in fact, is what Catholicism is all about

1. Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)

2. Orthodox Quaker (95%)

3. Conservative Christian Protestant (83%)

4. Eastern Orthodox (81%)

5. Roman Catholic (81%)

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tort(e) said...

Yep, the test is smart and I may be religiously confused (although I dont think I am)... I got 100% for Islam and Orthodox Judaism, followed closely by a 99% for Bahai and 89% for reform Judaism. Hmm. Maybe I should start taking bids from each religion to see which I should belong to... or I can stick with the one I prefer... Shalom and Salaam!