Friday quiz results: Finding my religion. Or not.
This is a pretty interesting test: the Belief-O-Matic™, but I gotta say I'm a little surprised by the results. I've been perfectly happy all these years without a religion. Except for a short while when I was about eleven and wanted my family to be Amish, or maybe Hasidic Jews. I think I craved more rules and structure. A kid needs something to rebel against, or what's the point?
But anyway, who can resist this?
"Even if YOU don't know what faith you are, Belief-O-Matic™ knows. Answer 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more, and Belief-O-Matic™ will tell you what religion (if any) you practice...or ought to consider practicing."I'm not actually considering practicing a religion, but I took the test anyway, because -- well, mostly because Julie IM-ed me a while ago wondering where the Friday quiz was. I think she was bored. But also I wanted to see how a heathen like myself would score.
When you're all finished, the results page lists 27 faiths, each followed by a percentage score in descending order of how closely your stated beliefs match those of each particular faith. The explanation of the scoring system is as follows:
"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."Well thank goodness they added that last bit. I'd hate to think that all Unitarian Universalists were a bunch of heathen commies like me. Likewise with the Liberal Quakers: I scored 98% on that one.
But the third one on my list was Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants? WTF? Secular Humanism, which is more or less how I'd describe my beliefs if I had to describe them, was #4 on the list (88%). I have to confess, though, that I didn't even know that there was such a thing as a Secular Humanist Association. I've never been to a meeting. But if there is an organization and it has meetings, it's probably not really my scene.
I was glad to see Scientology so low on the list (#22), but frankly a little surprised that New Age and Neo-Pagan were so high (#12 and #6, respectively).
4 comments:
well that was VERY interesting!! I especially like being able to indicate the priority of the question in my life . . . and Unitarian Universalist came out on top, not surprisingly. I got the Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (79%) as well. At the bottom? Roman Catholic. Sorry Mom, but the nuns did me in.
"I'd hate to think that all Unitarian Universalists were a bunch of heathen commies like me."
You might hate to think it, but it's also pretty much true.
The UU's are pretty cool. They verge on "cultural appropriation" every so often, but they mean well, usually.
Yeah, it's that well-meaning earnestness sometimes that makes me a little impatient with them, but I do like them quite a bit. Some of my best friends, etc. I actually did teach Sunday School classes to youngsters at a UU congregation when I was in college. They were very nice to me even though they knew I was a heathen and a commie and a queer. I taught poetry and art -- I was especially amused at the little kids in the christmas vacation art class (4-6 year olds) who would spontaneously make Star of David & Menorah ornaments for their christmas trees, or even one kid made sort of a rasta-themed creche. The only time I generated any consternation at all among the parents was when I sent the kids all home with glitter-encrusted art projects. And glitter in their hair and clothing. The kids, of course, adored glitter-based projects (as do I), so we did a lot of them. Two of the mothers met with me after class one day to express some concerns. I was almost as nervous as they were, the poor dears. I thought they'd found out I was a lesbian and wanted to yank their daughters out of my class. Turned out they were just tired of vacuuming. "You don't have children, do you," they said. "No, as a matter of fact, and I don't have a vacuum cleaner either. Or carpet." We did macaroni art for a while after that. And popsicle sticks. But damn, glitter is fun.
is this pre or post brainwashing?
Post a Comment