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    Wow! I just took the Belief-o-matic Quiz

    Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 10:03 PM [General]

    By Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway 

     

    I have to say I was a little shocked at first. I always call myself a very "interfaith" person but Belief-o-Matic tells me I am 100 percent "neopagan".

     

    Ok... I've been outed by Belief-o-Matic! Guess it is time to come out of the closet!

     

    What exactly is neopagan, anyway... I think it is another word for not traditionally religious and definately open-minded. Like "Interfaith,"  neopagan is not a religion. It is more of philosphy on life (I think) and an open-minded spiritual practice.

     

    When I perused the rest of the scores, I realized that the test was probably pretty accurate as is also confirms I am a New Age gal and Unitarian and New Thought in my thinking. No surprise there.

     

    In fact the top 12 results pretty much show I am not defined by one religion or practice, and i do enjoy a fairly high degree of traditions that I resonate with. The only one I am not too familiar with is Scientology. Here are my results.


    		  
    1.  Neo-Pagan (100%)
    2.  New Age (89%)
    3.  Unitarian Universalism (89%)
    4.  Mahayana Buddhism (74%)
    5.  New Thought (72%)
    6.  Reform Judaism (72%)
    7.  Scientology (71%)
    8.  Liberal Quakers (70%)
    9.  Hinduism (68%)
    10.  Sikhism (65%)
    11.  Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (63%)
    12.  Theravada Buddhism (61%)
    13.  Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (54%)
    14.  Bahá'í Faith (53%)
    15.  Jainism (53%)
    16.  Orthodox Judaism (52%)
    17.  Secular Humanism (50%)
    18.  Orthodox Quaker (43%)
    19.  Taoism (43%)
    20.  Islam (42%)
    21.  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (36%)
    22.  Nontheist (31%)
    23.  Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (30%)
    24.  Eastern Orthodox (24%)
    25.  Roman Catholic (24%)
    26.  Seventh Day Adventist (23%)
    27.  Jehovah's Witness (17%)
     
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