Religion Quiz: Share Your Results

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Anyone who says there’s no god needs to have 0% for theisms like Xianity, but that doesn’t happen. Very odd. I guess you can have an affinity for a given religion’s political stance, and not their core doctrines? Is that even assessing religion at all?

It seems more like a percent chance to enjoy having lunch with one or another sort of person.

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This from 2011

Unitarian Universalism (100%)
Theravada Buddhism (99%)
Secular Humanism (92%)
Liberal Quakers (91%)
Mahayana Buddhism (84%)
Taoism (80%)
Neo-Pagan (79%)
Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)
Jainism (66%)
New Age (63%)
Nontheist (60%)
Orthodox Quaker (59%)
Sikhism (57%)
Hinduism (56%)
Reform Judaism (49%)
Scientology (39%)
Baha'i Faith (38%)
New Thought (37%)
Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (29%)
Seventh Day Adventist (29%)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (26%)
Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (19%)
Orthodox Judaism (18%)
Eastern Orthodox (16%)
Islam (16%)
Roman Catholic (16%)
Jehovah's Witness (14%) 

And from 2017

Secular Humanism (100%)
Unitarian Universalism (100%)
Liberal Quakerism (88%)
Taoism (68%)
Liberal Christian Protestantism (59%)
Theravada Buddhism (58%)
Neo-Paganism (55%)
Atheism (55%)
New Age (53%)
Mahayana Buddhism (46%)
Reformed Judaism (46%)
Sikhism (45%)
Jainism (43%)
Orthodox Quakerism (35%)
Hinduism (32%)
Scientology (32%)
Church of Christ, Scientist (27%)
New Thought (27%)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (21%)
Seventh-day Adventists (11%)
Bahá’í Faith (11%)
Jehovah’s Witnesses (11%)
Conservative Christian Protestant (7%)
Roman Catholicism (0%)
Eastern Orthodox Christianity (0%)
Islam (0%)
Orthodox Judaism (0%)

“That’s me in the corner
That’s me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don’t know if I can do it
Oh no I’ve said too much
I haven’t said enough”… :smiley:

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1.    Hinduism (100%)
2.    Sikhism (93%)    
3.    Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends (88%)
4.    Eastern Orthodox (84%)
5.    Roman Catholic (84%)
6.    Seventh Day Adventist (80%)    
7.    Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (77%)
8.    Jainism (76%)    
9.    Unitarian Universalism (75%)    
10.    Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (73%)
11.    Jehovahs Witness (72%)
12.    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (72%)
13.    Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (67%)
14.    Orthodox Judaism (64%)
15.    Neo-Pagan (61%)
16.    Reform Judaism (57%)
17.    Mahayana Buddhism (56%)
18.    Theravada Buddhism (56%)
19.    New Age (52%)
20.    Taoism (44%)
21.    New Thought (42%)
22.    Islam (38%)
23.    Bahai (27%)
24.    Secular Humanism (26%)
25.    Scientology (21%)
26.    Non-theist (15%)
27.    Christian Science Church of Christ, Scientist (15%)

I consider myself both (Roman) Catholic and Buddhist

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Do you feel like you have had a significant change in perspective, or is the difference because of a more thorough understanding of the ideas touched on in the quiz?

:flushed:

I just realized, the understanding in the second half of the question could precipitate the change in the first half. :smile:

I’ll leave this here anyway. :pray:

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Unitarian universalism is a catch all religion and cannot be differentiated out from the rest, in the way the questionnaire is structured. I personally don’t know what to make of these test scores apart from a little bit of fun, more like palm reading (sorry, palm-reader believers).

  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%).

  2. Theravada Buddhism (97%)

  3. Mahayana Buddhism (96%)

  4. Sikhism (82%)

  5. Taoism (80%)

  6. Hinduism (77%)

  7. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (76%)

  8. New Age (71%)

  9. Jainism (69%)

  10. Neo-Pagan (64%)

  11. Secular Humanism (62%)

  12. Scientology (61%)

  13. New Thought (54%)

  14. Non-theist (45%)

  15. Mainline - Liberal Christian protestants (44%)

  16. Reform Judaism (39%)

  17. Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends (35%)

  18. Orthodox Judaism (32%)

  19. Christian Science Church of Christ, Scientist (31%)

  20. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (30%)

  21. Islam (21%)

  22. Bahai (20%)

  23. Eastern Orthodox (17%)

  24. Roman Catholic (17%)

  25. Jehovahs Witness (15%)

  26. Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (14%)

  27. Seventh Day Adventist (14%)

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I was born and raised LDS, but I left the church mentally around 11 yrs old as it just didn’t make sense to me.
I had to retake the test due to some misclicking, and found I did change some answers. The results the first time about were Taoist 100%, a path I’m not super familiar with, and then Theravada.

These are the results after I reconsidered the priorities of some things.
Interesting quiz.

Theravada Buddhism (100%)
Unitarian Universalism (97%)
Taoism (93%)
Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (90%)
Mahayana Buddhism (90%)
Secular Humanism (83%)
New Age (79%)
Neo-Pagan (74%)
Sikhism (71%)
Jainism (63%)
Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (62%)
New Thought (59%)
Non-theist (51%)
Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends (51%)
Hinduism (50%)
Reform Judaism (49%)
Scientology (48%)
Christian Science Church of Christ, Scientist (34%)
Bahai (25%)
Seventh Day Adventist (18%)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (15%)
Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (12%)
Islam (9%)
Jehovahs Witness (8%)
Orthodox Judaism (8%)
Eastern Orthodox (0%)
Roman Catholic (0%)

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There are more religious questions on the quiz (rather than simply political questions), than those which have to do with belief in a god.

Another thing is you don’t need to believe in a theistic god to be Liberal Quaker or Unitarian.

I know. But having no belief in god means one is not a theist. So, the other questions don’t matter because it’s a disqualifying response, and only one such response is needed.

Not needing a theistic belief means theism isn’t even a variable in defining the religion, and so it’s neither qualifying nor disqualifying to assert.

Hi Nadine

Maybe.I don’t know :slight_smile: Stuff falls away, and less gets taken up to replace it.
This practice, whatever it is, is not a spiritual scavenger hunt, is it?

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LOL the test is actually good despite not looking to be so at first sight.

	1.	Theravada Buddhism (100%)				More Info
2.	Unitarian Universalism (98%)				More Info
3.	Sikhism (88%)				More Info
4.	Mahayana Buddhism (82%)				More Info
5.	Taoism (79%)				More Info
6.	Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (76%)				More Info
7.	Scientology (75%)				More Info
8.	Secular Humanism (71%)				More Info
9.	Jainism (71%)				More Info
10.	Non-theist (70%)				More Info
11.	Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (70%)				More Info
12.	Reform Judaism (67%)				More Info
13.	New Age (65%)				More Info
14.	New Thought (65%)				More Info
15.	Neo-Pagan (64%)				More Info
16.	Bahai (55%)				More Info
17.	Christian Science Church of Christ, Scientist (55%)				More Info
18.	Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends (55%)				More Info
19.	Hinduism (50%)				More Info
20.	Islam (45%)				More Info
21.	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (39%)				More Info
22.	Orthodox Judaism (38%)				More Info
23.	Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (35%)				More Info
24.	Eastern Orthodox (29%)				More Info
25.	Roman Catholic (29%)				More Info
26.	Seventh Day Adventist (18%)				More Info
27.	Jehovahs Witness (9%)				More Info

Worth nothing that I am a liberal (which means right-wing anywhere else except USA) so I did not answer the political questions as a progressive would do and still I got these results. I had a feeling you needed to answer those as a progressive to get a good buddhist score but appearently they don’t matter.

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What’s great is that now since we have the test results of so many people, we know who are the heretics on the forum so we can burn them at the stake :smiley:

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My results:

Your Complete Results:

  1. Theravada Buddhism (100%) More Info
  2. Unitarian Universalism (90%) More Info
  3. Mahayana Buddhism (85%) More Info
  4. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (71%) More Info
  5. New Age (67%) More Info
  6. Secular Humanism (66%) More Info
  7. Taoism (66%) More Info
  8. Sikhism (65%) More Info
  9. New Thought (62%) More Info
  10. Jainism (60%) More Info
  11. Neo-Pagan (59%) More Info
  12. Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (58%) More Info
  13. Non-theist (50%) More Info
  14. Scientology (50%) More Info
  15. Reform Judaism (49%) More Info
  16. Hinduism (47%) More Info
  17. Christian Science Church of Christ, Scientist (36%) More Info
  18. Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends (29%) More Info
  19. Bahai (27%) More Info
  20. Orthodox Judaism (22%) More Info
  21. Islam (21%) More Info
  22. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (18%) More Info
  23. Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (15%) More Info
  24. Eastern Orthodox (12%) More Info
  25. Roman Catholic (12%) More Info
  26. Seventh Day Adventist (11%) More Info
  27. Jehovahs Witness (6%) More Info
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What triggers this score.
I do not sound like a Unitarian Universalist at all.

I think this quiz is a propaganda work of Unitarian Universalism .:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Surprise thing is you score very low in Jainism.

It’s interesting to see the results of people here. It’s interesting how high Jainism scores for so many here. I always felt Jainism is very close to Buddhism, especially Theravada. I was surprised my results weren’t that high for Jainism as others had. Maybe there should have been a question about vegetarian diet. :grin:

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1: Theravada Buddhism (100%)
2: Unitarian Universalism (97%)
3: Taoism (87%)
4: Secular Humanism (82%)
5: Liberal Quakers – Religious Society of Friends (77%)
6: Mahayana Buddhism (74%)
7: Jainism (70%)
8: Sikhism (70%)
9: Hinduism (68%)
10: Neo-Pagan (68%)
11: New Age (53%)
12: Mainline – Liberal Christian Protestants (50%)
13: Orthodox Quaker – Religious Society of Friends (44%)
14: Scientology (44%)
15: Non-theist (42%)
16: Reform Judaism (42%)
17: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (35%)
18: New Thought (33%)
19: Christian Science Church of Christ, Scientist (26%)
20: Jehovahs Witness (26%)
21: Seventh Day Adventist (22%)
22: Orthodox Judaism (21%)
23: Bahai (17%)
24: Islam (17%)
25: Mainline – Conservative Christian Protestant (14%)
26: Eastern Orthodox (8%)
27: Roman Catholic (8%)

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Curious that Protestants got such a reductive rough cut (“Mainline – Liberal Christian Protestants” and “Mainline – Conservative Christian Protestant”) while many smaller, possibly related sects are differentiated (Scientology, LDS, Christian Science, Jehovahs Witness[es], Seventh Day Adventist,…).

(And where are do the Spaghetti Monster followers fit in?)

Also curious that no monastics (that I can recognize) have taken the bait here. Renunciation of view? or reticence as to attainments?

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Since Unitarian Universalism doesn’t really have a set dogma or doctrine, many different kinds of religious belief, including atheism, are tolerated and embraced within it. Their motto is “Deeds, not creeds.”

I prefer Unity Church, though, myself because it’s less politically themed as Unitarianism. Unity and Unitarianism are distinct organizations though similar in terms of a liberal attitude to theology.

I don’t think so.
It appears to me they are another face of Abrahamic religion for which I scored the lowest.
For rating me as 100% Unitarian Universalism does not make any sense.

What Do We Believe about God?

Unitarian Universalists have many ways of naming what is sacred. Some believe in a God; some don’t believe in a God. Some believe in a sacred force at work in the world, and call it “love,” “mystery,” “source of all” or “spirit of life.” We are thousands of individuals of all ages, each influenced by our cultures and life experiences to understand “the ground of our being” in our own way. Unitarian Universalists are agnostic, theist, atheist, and everything in between.

We join together not because we have a shared concept of the divine. Rather we gather knowing that life is richer in community than when we go it alone. We gather to know and be known, to comfort and be comforted, to celebrate the mystery that binds us, each to all.

We welcome you in the fullness of your beliefs. Join us in exploring life’s deepest questions in a spiritually diverse, supportive, and challenging community. We are excited to meet you where you are, and see how we can all learn and grow together.
Existence of a Higher Power in Unitarian Universalism | UUA.org

A main reason why now, after over two years of being Buddhist, why I couldn’t go back to Unity or Unitarianism is because I now do have specific beliefs that I want to be affirmed as part of my faith tradition.

I sincerely believe that Buddhism is the true religion, rather than all religions leading to the same mountain top, though I respect a variety of belief and practice within the religion of Buddhism itself.

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This is eel-wriggling.
You won’t get anywhere with these sort of teaching.