Religion Scores

[mikekn]

I spotted the results of one of these over in anglicub's journal, so I thought I'd track one down and try it (not sure if it's what he used or if there are others out there).


http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

Interesting, but not too surprising:

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (98%)
3. Liberal Quakers (89%)
4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (82%) - This one was a bit of a surprise actually, but it probably means my view of this group is off.
5. Nontheist (73%)
6. Neo-Pagan (70%)
7. Theravada Buddhism (70%)
8. Taoism (57%)
9. New Age (55%)
10. Bahá'í Faith (49%)
11. Orthodox Quaker (45%)
12. Reform Judaism (45%)
13. Mahayana Buddhism (44%)
14. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (42%)
15. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (38%)
16. New Thought (33%)
17. Sikhism (30%)
18. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (29%)
19. Scientology (29%)
20. Jainism (28%)
21. Jehovah's Witness (26%)
22. Seventh Day Adventist (21%)
23. Hinduism (15%)
24. Eastern Orthodox (12%)
25. Islam (12%)
26. Orthodox Judaism (12%)
27. Roman Catholic (12%)

Comments

Protestants

[metageek.livejournal.com]

No, I think the program's view of Protestants is off. I reported that there is no God, prayer is useless, etc., and it listed a "Mainline to Liberal Protestant" score of 86% for me. I said that prayer should not take priority over actual medical treatment, and it listed a Christian Science score of 67%.

All I can guess is that the programmer was really sloppy. Either that, or their agenda was actually to convince people that they're religious, so they skewed the percentages upwards.

Re: Protestants

[mikekn]

I suppose that both could be possible. After playing with the test some, nothing I did would get Nontheist to rank higher then Mainline to Liberal Protestant (Although I did get Roman Catholic down to 0%).