BEDA 30: Belief-o-matic

    Ramadan began this month and Rosh Hashanah is fast approaching and EVERY day is a saint's day and I'm. . .uh. . . using those occasions to justify today's topic. Browsing the blogs and features on BeliefNet has become one of my favorite ways to procrastinate on work, and I recently took the "Belief-o-matic" test, a personality quiz about your religious and spiritual beliefs. It asks you a short number of questions and tells you which faiths traditions you're most "compatible" with. Kind of like a dating personality quiz for religious wafflers. Or curious procrastinators fascinated by theological divisions in Christianity. It's by no means an exhaustive test and I think some of the questions and answers are oddly phrased, but interesting nonetheless. My results are pretty accurate, I think. I am a conservative protestant, with some Seventh Day Adventist ethical leanings. I'm a little surprised no Mennonite sect showed up on the results, but it doesn't look like the Belief-o-matic includes too many anabaptist sects. I also find it funny that I scored higher in the categorie of Scientology, Neo-Paganism and Nontheism than Secular Humanism. And true. Few who know me will disagree. 
     Try the Belief-o-matic quiz here if you're interested. They also have some other interesting tests of general religious literacy and knowledge. If you're comfortable, share your results in the comments. Do you think the quiz is accurate? Can complex religious traditions and personal spiritual beliefs be reduced to a handful of yes/no questions? Is it weird that this is what I do for fun? 

My full results:

1.  Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (100%) 2.  Seventh Day Adventist (97%) 3.  Orthodox Quaker (92%) 4.  Eastern Orthodox (89%) 5.  Roman Catholic (89%) 6.  Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (65%) 7.  Islam (62%) 8.  Orthodox Judaism (62%) 9.  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (52%) 10.  Hinduism (51%) 11.  Liberal Quakers (45%) 12.  Baha'i Faith (41%) 13.  Jehovah's Witness (41%) 14.  Sikhism (37%) 15.  Reform Judaism (34%) 16.  Jainism (33%) 17.  Unitarian Universalism (32%) 18.  Theravada Buddhism (27%) 19.  Mahayana Buddhism (25%) 20.  Nontheist (21%) 21.  Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (20%) 22.  New Thought (16%) 23.  Scientology (16%) 24.  Taoism (14%) 25.  Neo-Pagan (13%) 26.  Secular Humanism (8%)