Sunday, January 21, 2007

Beliefs

I gave a online test about beliefs for fun , here are the results
Your Results:
1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (91%)
3. Liberal Quakers (85%)
4. Neo-Pagan (77%)
5. Non-theist (74%)
6. Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)
7. New Age (68%)
8. Theravada Buddhism (65%)
9. Orthodox Quaker (57%)
10. Taoism (53%)
11. Mahayana Buddhism (52%)
12.Bahai (43%)
13. Reform Judaism (43%)
14. Sikhism (43%)
15. Jainism (41%)
16. New Thought (40%)
17. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist)
18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (35%)
19. Scientology (34%)
20. Seventh Day Adventist (30%)
21. Hinduism (28%)
22. Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (28%)
23. Eastern Orthodox (26%)
24. Islam (26%)
25. Orthodox Judaism (26%)
26. Roman Catholic (26%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (21%)
And though after looking up wikipedia, i am i agreement with secular humanists, it still has a problem. Which is that the beliefs are fixed. Which is a problem inherent in all religions. The beliefs were decided centuries ago and can't be changed even when the practices they encourage are outdated or no longer apply or are just plain wrong. Religion and change dont mix. And though my views may be a 100% match today for some set of beliefs, they may not do so tomorrow. And that is how it should be.

1 comment:

Maria Goveas said...

here are my results.
1.Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (78%)
3. Orthodox Quaker (73%)
4. Unitarian Universalism (68%)
5. Bahai (66%)
6. Eastern Orthodox (65%)
7. Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (65%)
8. Roman Catholic (65%)
9. Reform Judaism (59%)
10. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (56%)
11. Sikhism (55%)
12. Seventh Day Adventist (52%)
13. Orthodox Judaism (50%)
14. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (50%)
15. Jehovah's Witness (46%)
16. Neo-Pagan (46%)
17. New Age (44%)
18. Secular Humanism (39%)
19. Mahayana Buddhism (36%)
20. Islam (36%)
21. Theravada Buddhism (35%)
22. Taoism (33%)
23. New Thought (31%)
24. Jainism (28%)
25. Hinduism (27%)
26. Non-theist (19%)
27. Scientology (16%)

We are both sort of Liberal Christian Protestant :) I was surprised that I ranked 8 for Roman Catholic. I am one! Well anyway I guess its coz I too believe in non rigid religious beliefs and practices. For example I dint agree that Satan causes much of the suffering around us--people do. Which is what the Roman Catholic church probably disagrees with. Most of the questions really cant be answered with just one answer and sometimes even one answer doesnt say everything about what you believe. Fun quiz... made me think :) Thanks Deepu