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Post by barbaraw on May 5, 2009 19:54:23 GMT -5
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Post by coleslaw on May 6, 2009 9:48:19 GMT -5
I think the best comment on this poll was made in this post on another message board:
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Post by rosa on May 6, 2009 10:28:09 GMT -5
I have gone to meetings/church meetings for all the groups I scored for (neopagan, nontheist, UU, liberal Quaker, Secular Humanist). And yet, I end up back at a liberal open Methodist church. Because to me the people, the music, the organized activities (everything from potlucks to union support) and the gathering together are what is important. Since there's no group that shares me experience & beliefs completely, I totally choose style over substance in a church.
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linnea
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Post by linnea on May 6, 2009 11:45:54 GMT -5
My scores:
1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (96%) 3. Liberal Quakers (83%) 4. Theravada Buddhism (83%) 5. Nontheist (75%) 6. Neo-Pagan (70%)
I call myself a neo-pagan sometimes, but that didn't quite make the top five.
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Post by rosa on May 6, 2009 12:01:26 GMT -5
They seem to think all neopagans literally believe in multiple gods, which I can say from pretty wide experience is not at all true. the Church of All Worlds, for instance, thinks part of their/our purpose is to make new stories as part of the remaking of the world, and most of their stories are about the goddesses and gods but it's not a clear-cut, literal belief.
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Post by jadehawk on May 6, 2009 12:16:39 GMT -5
1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (92%) 3. Theravada Buddhism (80%) 4. Liberal Quakers (79%) 5. Nontheist (74%)
Except for the Liberal Quakers, whom I know nothing about, I can deal with the rest, heheh. but I agree that any positive comment will score you a UU point.
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Post by barbaraw on May 6, 2009 12:17:02 GMT -5
I think the best comment on this poll was made in this post on another message board: I am a UU, but got UU second this time, after Liberal Quaker. FWIW.
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Post by aimai on May 6, 2009 15:13:28 GMT -5
I thought the test was weird and biased in an odd way. It certainly had some preconceived notions about how morality, passion, and the divine ought to fit together. I thought it placed an oddly heavy emphasis on the perceived intensity of your beliefs.
I took the test but didn't get a screen capture of my top religions. I was 100 percent UU though. I think that is because I expressed moral convictions without agreeing that there was a supreme being. And also I probably ended up in that category because I expressed low intensity on all topics—that is, I refused to treat any of them as deal breakers. I thought it was very interesting and somewhat suspect that they choose to create a category that cross cut all others like whatever it was—intensity. Do you think gay marriage is wrong? How intensely do you feel about it. If they want to have some kind of fanaticism break out that's great, but I think that tests like the political one that is done by quadrants is probably more useful. On that test instead of scoring your political beliefs on a left/right axis along a straight continuum you get scored across a compass with points that are more authoritarian or more libertarian along one axis, and more liberal or conservative along the other. That way you can end up “near gandhi” or “near stalin” instead of just right/left.
aimai
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Post by anotheramy on May 6, 2009 16:49:26 GMT -5
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (91%) 3. Secular Humanism (90%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (86%) 5. Neo-Pagan (82%)
I suppose this is most accurate considering that I call myself a Deist.
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Post by pandapaws on May 6, 2009 17:41:03 GMT -5
Here are my top 10. I consider myself a "Hindu." I never really considered neo-paganism and honestly don't understand what that is. I have thought about checking out the UU Church but haven't yet.
1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Mahayana Buddhism (95%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (93%) 4. Jainism (87%) 5. Hinduism (83%) 6. Theravada Buddhism (79%) 7. New Age (78%) 8. Liberal Quakers (77%) 9. Sikhism (77%) 10. Reform Judaism (72%)
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kay
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Post by kay on May 7, 2009 8:29:14 GMT -5
My top result was Secular Humanism, followed by UU, then non-theism. Personally, I just call myself an atheist. Certainly not UU.
I liked the quiz but I think it was certainly built for theists moreso than non-theists.
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Post by rosa on May 7, 2009 8:53:46 GMT -5
Pandapaws, neopaganism is a whole bunch of religions, and some new age groups that mix them together. Mostly re-created versions of pre-Christian European religions - so traditional Celtic religions, traditional Norse religion, traditional British folk religion, traditional Italian witchcraft, etc. But also some elements of non-European religions including pretty much everything, from ancient Egyptian teachings to elements of modern Hindu and buddhist teachings. The biggest neopagan group is Wicca, in all it's variants.
Some of them claim to have rediscovered or have passed down to them actual religious practice from pre-Christian Europe, and some claim to be creating new practices in the spirit of older religions, and some claim that *all* religions are actually expressions of the one Divine, with every God & Goddess a human face put on a universal truth.
I would call it post-Christian religion except I know so many Jewish pagans. It's definitely anti-patriarchal...except that some of it isn't, in practice.
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Post by princessjo1988 on May 10, 2009 20:56:21 GMT -5
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (95%) 3. Secular Humanism (92%) 4. Neo-Pagan (85%) 5. Orthodox Quaker (82%) 6. New Age (77%) 7. Theravada Buddhism (75%) 8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (71%) 9. Mahayana Buddhism (68%) 10. Taoism (66%)
Woah...whom would have thought?
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Post by luneargentee on May 16, 2009 2:10:34 GMT -5
1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. New Age (90%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (89%) 4. Reform Judaism (86%) 5. Liberal Quakers (85%)
I am a Pagan, so that part worked.
Beliefnet used to be more eclectic, now it's monotheistic-centric, which obviously affected how the quiz was worded.
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Post by amyrose on Dec 13, 2009 22:27:33 GMT -5
1. Quaker 2. Eastern Orthodox 3. Roman Catholic 4. Mainline/Liberal Protestant 5. Seventh Day Adventist
About as weird a religious potpourri as my life has been.
I am actually a Catholic convert.
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