March 23, 2005

• So visited this Beliefnet.com- a site for people to learn about different religions and talk about it. I don’t think I liked everything I saw there, but I did read an aritcle I liked and want to share: A leading evangelical speaks at the Mormon Tabernacle. I also took a quiz that I liked. My Results:
  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.
  
  Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths (I just included 15) in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.
  
  1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (100%)
  2. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (96%)
  3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (92%)
  4. Jehovah’s Witness (88%)
  5. Bahá’í Faith (71%)
  6. Seventh Day Adventist (69%)
  7. Orthodox Quaker (65%)
  8. Eastern Orthodox (64%)
  9. Roman Catholic (64%)
  10. Orthodox Judaism (63%)
  11. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (58%)
  12. Liberal Quakers (53%)
  13. Sikhism (52%)
  14. Islam (51%)
  15. Reform Judaism (48%)
  
  Take the Quiz yourself! Though obviously I didn’t need to take the quiz to define and classify my beliefs, It’s very fascinating. I read some comments people wrote about how they were surprised at their results. I laughed as several “main-line” Christians took the quiz and were ranked first as Latter-day Saints because they wrote nasty messages complaining about it. They couldn’t understand how they could have so much in common with the Mormons that the quiz would mistake them as Mormons. Gee, maybe our beliefs just aren’t that strange (or even different) after all . . . Maybe you’ll be surprised- maybe your beliefs define you differently than you think you are defined.

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