Spiritual Belief System Selector

[marle35]

http://selectsmart.com/religion/

I thought this was pretty interesting. My guess is that many people will get Unitarian Universalism as their top result because it's all encompassing. The quiz seems more philosophy oriented than about specific religion beliefs. I am not surprised to find Taoism (yin-yang/balance/harmony) near the top of my list, but Quakerism above Secular Humanism? I'm not Christian and I identify as agnostic. Go figure.

It gives a long list of results, but these are my top six:

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Taoism (98%)
3. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (89%)
4. New Age (87%)
5. Neo-Pagan (78%)
6. Secular Humanism (72%)

[hobbit709]

1. Secular Humanism 100%, everything else way down the list.

[Arugula Latte]

2. Is there a category for "Cat Worship"?

[frogmarch]

3. Secular Humanist 100%

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Non-theist (92%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (82%)

I am glad I took the test. I had no idea I was a secular humanist.

[RebelOne]

4. My results also. n/t

[sarge43]

8. Same here. nt

[NightWatcher]

5. Godless Heathen 100%

Secular Humanism. I prefer the term Fairy Tale Non Believer

[csziggy]

6. Secular Humanism (100%) Number 1!!!!

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (92%)
3. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (76%)
4. Non-theist (73%)
5. Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (71%)
6. Reform Judaism (62%)
7. Taoism (61%)

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

7. They say I'm 100% secular humanist,

89% Unitarian (the church I was raised in) and 80% Quaker. I say I'm nonreligious and highly compassionate and ethical. No sky daddy nonsense for me. It's hard to live in the South.

[struggle4progress]

9. Apparently I'm an orthodox Quaker

[olddots]

10. I want more holidays

[rurallib]

13. excellent point

what good is having a deity if you don't get a few days off?

[LiberalElite]

11. surprised to find I'm 100% Taoist -

but amused to find I'm only 11% Catholic. That's the religion I was raised in but left decades ago.

[Dont call me Shirley]

12. Very cool test.

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Taoism (94%)
3. New Age (79%)
4. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (77%)
5. Mahayana Buddhism (70%)
6. Theravada Buddhism (70%)
7. New Thought (70%)

[rug]

14. 1. Eastern Orthodox (100%)

2. Roman Catholic (100%)
3. Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends (98%)
4. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (89%)
5. Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (75%)
6. Seventh Day Adventist (70%)
7. Unitarian Universalism (68%) More Info
8. Hinduism (64%)

[femmocrat]

15. My results:

Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (94%)
3. Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends (94%)
4. Unitarian Universalism (93%)
5. Secular Humanism (79%)

[chknltl]

16. New Thought, 100%!?!

What n hell is New Thought?

My belief system: We have souls, they reincarnate; our souls are along for the ride each incarnation experiencing life; there are no right or wrong choices in life but there is karma which accumulates during each life and eventually gets utilized during future lives; there are lessons to be learned but those lessons can be abdicated by the living individual; eventually-(many hundreds of lifetimes or more)-when all the lessons are learned the soul moves on to a spirit dimension to combine with other spirits whose journeys have ended, for this new 'super soul' the journey begins again. What happens beyond that I could not tell you. For those interested in further information see Messages From Michael: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Michael_Teachings

I am absolutely aware that my personal belief system labels me as a nut by most folks...I am OK with that. I accept that everyone has some sort of a belief system, that they are each perfect and strongly important to that individual. From my point of view, everyone's belief systems is necessary to their own spiritual development. It saddens me when others can not accept me having my belief system when I have no issue accepting them having theirs, but that's how life is supposed to be I guess.

[kwassa]

17. since you asked

I used to belong to a New Thought church. Here is a rough approximation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought

The concept of New Thought (sometimes known as "Higher Thought"[4]) promotes the ideas that Infinite Intelligence, or God, is everywhere, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect.[5][6]

Although New Thought is neither monolithic nor doctrinaire, in general, modern-day adherents of New Thought believe that God or Infinite Intelligence is "supreme, universal, and everlasting", that divinity dwells within each person, that all people are spiritual beings, that "the highest spiritual principle [is] loving one another unconditionally... and teaching and healing one another", and that "our mental states are carried forward into manifestation and become our experience in daily living".[5][6]

The New Thought movement originated in the early 19th century, and survives to the current day in the form of a loosely allied group of religious denominations, authors, philosophers, and individuals who share a set of beliefs concerning metaphysics, positive thinking, the law of attraction, healing, life force, creative visualization, and personal power.[7]

[chknltl]

18. Some of this parallels my belief, some can be interpreted to parallel it

(This is the first I've heard of this New Thought btw.) This passage especially spoke to me: "..... Infinite Intelligence is "supreme, universal, and everlasting", that divinity dwells within each person, that all people are spiritual beings, that "the highest spiritual principle loving one another unconditionally... and teaching and healing one another", and that "our mental states are carried forward into manifestation and become our experience in daily living"."

As I said in my above post, I believe we each have a soul. The Michael teachings claim that the next level or stage for souls is a unification or grouping of many souls, Michael is one such grouping for instance. Michael further claims that eventually groups such as his, ('it's' is more accurate), unite into something much larger and eventually that too unites into something larger again and again until all souls everywhere come together to form a universal conscious.

Along the way back here on the physical plane, the ultimate spiritual lesson each soul must come to grasp eventually is universal and unconditional love. I 'get it' but only as a concept. It's sort of a hard thing to put into practice which suggests to me that I've more lives to attend to. Considering the future Republicans and the sociopaths they represent are trying to bring us, I have to wonder about the quality of life this planet will have to offer for those future lives.

[kwassa]

22. The Church of Religious Science, the one I was involved with ...

teaches that there is only the infinite intelligence that we are already part of, sort of a universal soul. We affect it by the way we think into it. It is already there, all we need to do is to participate in it.

[LWolf]

19. 70% and above:

1. Taoism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (95%)
3. New Age (88%)
4. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (80%)
5. Mahayana Buddhism (80%)
6. Neo-Pagan (80%)
7. New Thought (79%)
8. Hinduism (70%)

[seveneyes]

20. Realitarian here

The old wanderer walks while autumn's red, forevermore, evermore..

[hifiguy]

21. 100% Secular Humanist.

[BlueJazz]

23. Secular Humanism Plus it said "You're going straight to hell"

[HeiressofBickworth]

24. No surprise:

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (88%)
3. Non-theist (82%)
4. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (76%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (66%)

Dead last (tie) Catholic and Orthodox Judiasm (6% each)

[Kaleva]

25. Orthodox Judaism

[edgineered]

26. They're really good at this -

Non-theist - 100%
Secular Humanist - 100%

Also had eleven at 0% and a whole bunch of little numbers.

[Xyzse]

27. I have more in common with Scientology than the religion I was born in... WOW

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Hinduism (96%)
3. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (81%)
4. Jainism (76%)
5. Scientology (71%)
6. Taoism (70%)
7. New Thought (69%)
8. Christian Science Church of Christ, Scientist (65%)
9. Neo-Pagan (64%)
10. New Age (63%)
11. Mahayana Buddhism (60%)
12. Sikhism (58%)
13. Secular Humanism (53%)
14. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (48%)
15. Orthodox Judaism (48%)
16. Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (47%)
17. Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends (46%)
18. Theravada Buddhism (41%)
19. Jehovahs Witness (40%)
20. Reform Judaism (40%)
21. Seventh Day Adventist (38%)
22. Eastern Orthodox (31%)
23. Roman Catholic (31%)
24. Non-theist (28%)
25. Bahai (26%)
26. Islam (26%)
27. Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (22%)

[LiberalEsto]

28. No big surprise: I'm a UU

and I AM a UU

[Sanity Claws]

29. I'm New Age 100%

That's interesting. I consider myself pagan and that is real old-time religion

[Coventina]

30. Taoism 100%

UU - 90%
Mahayana Buddhism 89%
Liberal Quakers 85%

[Ino]

31. The LAST one on my list is Roman Catholic...

the result of 12 years of Catholic schools

[Arugula Latte]

33. That means you learned something.

[magical thyme]

32. 100% taoism; 98% new age, 93% mahayana buddhism

91% unitarian universalism
86% new thought
85% neopagan
83% quaker liberal