10.27.06
Spirituality Survey
Tonight, I found this spirituality survey . Unlike some survey sites, this one is pretty unbiased and seems to have a wide variety of questions and answer choices. Although I think there is a lot to be learned from all the world’s religions, even the ones we consider “Mythology” now, it seems to have pegged my current spiritual state pretty well. Here are my results. How did you (my 1-2 regular readers out there) do? How does it compare with what you think you believe?
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (96%)
3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (94%)
4. Mahayana Buddhism (85%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (83%)
6. Neo-Pagan (83%)
7. New Age (78%)
8. Bah�’� Faith (76%)
9. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (72%)
10. Taoism (66%)
11. New Thought (65%)
12. Reform Judaism (64%)
13. Secular Humanism (62%)
14. Sikhism (61%)
15. Hinduism (60%)
16. Scientology (60%)
17. Jainism (59%)
18. Orthodox Quaker (52%)
19. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (48%)
20. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (43%)
21. Jehovah’s Witness (38%)
22. Orthodox Judaism (37%)
23. Nontheist (35%)
24. Islam (31%)
25. Seventh Day Adventist (27%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (18%)
27. Roman Catholic (18%)
Zach Young said,
October 27, 2006 at 1:04 pm
I’m a little surprised. I wasn’t expecting the neo-pagan to be so high. I also didn’t realize how far I was from most all Christian groups. Interesting… Well here are my results:
1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (98%)
3. Mahayana Buddhism (95%)
4. Liberal Quakers (94%)
5. New Age (94%)
6. Scientology (77%)
7. Jainism (75%)
8. Hinduism (75%)
9. Taoism (75%)
10. Theravada Buddhism (75%)
11. New Thought (73%)
12. Reform Judaism (72%)
13. Sikhism (69%)
14. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (69%)
15. Bah�’� Faith (67%)
16. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (62%)
17. Secular Humanism (58%)
18. Orthodox Quaker (50%)
19. Orthodox Judaism (46%)
20. Islam (44%)
21. Nontheist (34%)
22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (27%)
23. Seventh Day Adventist (22%)
24. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (20%)
25. Jehovah’s Witness (20%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (7%)
27. Roman Catholic (7%)
Julia said,
October 30, 2006 at 10:18 pm
This is interesting. I am not surprised with my second result as I grew up in the Methodist church which is a pretty liberal sect of Christianity. I am also not surprised by my first rating as I have always wanted to try the Unitarian path. What surprised me was that Hinuism and Buddhism weren’t higher. You would think with all of the yoga that I do and my Mom’s upbringing that would be higher. Nonetheless, here are my results.
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (95%)
3. Liberal Quakers (95%)
4. New Age (81%)
5. Neo-Pagan (79%)
6. Mahayana Buddhism (74%)
7. Reform Judaism (74%)
8. Theravada Buddhism (70%)
9. New Thought (69%)
10. Orthodox Quaker (67%)
11. Hinduism (67%)
12. Secular Humanism (60%)
13. Scientology (57%)
14. Bahá’í Faith (55%)
15. Jainism (55%)
16. Taoism (55%)
17. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (52%)
18. Sikhism (52%)
19. Seventh Day Adventist (44%)
20. Orthodox Judaism (41%)
21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (39%)
22. Nontheist (34%)
23. Eastern Orthodox (33%)
24. Roman Catholic (33%)
25. Islam (31%)
26. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (27%)
27. Jehovah’s Witness (18%)
Zach Young said,
October 31, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Julia, I noticed the same thing with Hinduism in mine. The only reason I can think of is that Buddhist—especially Mahayana beliefs—are a little more diverse and fit easier with Western thought than Hindu beliefs.
Linn said,
November 6, 2006 at 11:39 pm
I just completed the spirituality survey. My results seemed to be an exact duplicate of Tristan’s.
It must be something in the water in Colorado.
(This is my second try at a comment here. The last time the system would not recognize me as human. Maybe that has something to do with the water in Colorado too.)
OK. Third try.
Zach Young said,
January 2, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Hey Tristan, haven’t seen you around in a bit, hope everything is well, and hope to hear from you soon.