Showing posts with label identity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label identity. Show all posts

Sunday, December 2, 2007

What Do You Know?

Behind the curve as usual, I took a whack at the belief-o-matic, you know, because it takes a website to tell me my place in the cosmos, to tell me what I believe. I was raised Roman Catholic (sort of), got first-communioned and confirmed, went to Sunday school, learned my stations of the cross and all that. So I kind of expected that to be reflected in the results.

What actually happened is that Roman Catholicism came in dead last, even after Jehovah's Witness. So I don't know, is this yet another manifestation of my problems with authority? Am I rebelling against my childhood religious educational experience? Am I denying my cultural history? Chowing down on the flavorless pabulum of white, male, middle-class non identity? Are Catholics just plain nuts?

Results:

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (96%)
3. Theravada Buddhism (93%)
4. Neo-Pagan (90%)
5. Secular Humanism (90%)
6. Mahayana Buddhism (86%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (79%)
8. New Age (76%)
9. Taoism (75%)
10. Orthodox Quaker (70%)
11. Jainism (66%)
12. Reform Judaism (65%)
13. Nontheist (61%)
14. Bahá'í Faith (57%)
15. Sikhism (48%)
16. Hinduism (46%)
17. New Thought (45%)
18. Scientology (43%)
19. Orthodox Judaism (38%)
20. Seventh Day Adventist (36%)
21. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (35%)
22. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (31%)
23. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (30%)
24. Islam (29%)
25. Jehovah's Witness (18%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (17%)
27. Roman Catholic (17%)

Unitarian Universalism? What the hell is that? Turns out, it's a fancy way of saying "None of the above".

Story of my life.