Take the Belief-O-Matic quiz- VERY Fun please take a look

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DonaNobis_Pacem said:
  1. Eastern Orthodox (100%)
  2. Roman Catholic (100%)
  3. Orthodox Quaker (96%)
  4. Seventh Day Adventist (93%)
  5. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (87%)
  6. Hinduism (63%)
  7. Orthodox Judaism (60%)
  8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (57%)
  9. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (54%)
  10. Islam (53%)
Awesome. Eastern Orthodoxy (although I wish they had included Byzantine Catholic, as they’ve been in communion with the Holy Father while the Orthodox have been in schism) and Roman Catholicism were the two I’d hoped to get. 👍
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The problem is the wording. They use the term “Roman”. We are not Roman Catholic. We are Latin, Melchite, Rithuanian Catholics, etc. The word Catholic would include all the Catholic rites.

Orthodox Christians are the next appropriate corallery since they too have apostolic succession and they are in communion with the Catholic Church in sacris and history.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
I’ll just post my top 3. Number 1 was pretty surprising.

Orthodox Quaker - 100%
Eastern Orthodox - 99%
Roman Catholic - 99%

I’m not sure how Quaker - especially Orthodox Quaker - could have managed to slip in. There wasn’t a single question about driving a mule team, living without electricity or baking bread. Darn, and here I thought I was a flaming liberal. C’est la vie. At least RC got in the top three…
 
FickleFreckled said:
I’ll just post my top 3. Number 1 was pretty surprising.

Orthodox Quaker - 100%
Eastern Orthodox - 99%
Roman Catholic - 99%

I’m not sure how Quaker - especially Orthodox Quaker - could have managed to slip in. There wasn’t a single question about driving a mule team, living without electricity or baking bread. Darn, and here I thought I was a flaming liberal. C’est la vie. At least RC got in the top three…
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Uhhhhhhhhhhh . . . well you do live in the Bluebonnet State. 😃

Br. JR, OSF :)😃
 
JReducation,

Uh, was that a joke? Sorry, I’m a Texan so I’m obviously sort of slow…

I don’t know how to bake bread, not particularly fond of mules or mule teams and I NEED all the electricity I can get to run the blow dryer, curling iron, nail dryer and all those other superficial girlie things. I like my a/c on “FROZEN”. I wear costume jewelry daily and get my toenails painted. I like LifeTeen Masses and used to play guitar and sing in a contemporary choir. Where in there does one get “Orthodox Quaker???” Well, I do look pretty good in black. That must be it.
 
FickleFreckled said:
JReducation,

Uh, was that a joke? Sorry, I’m a Texan so I’m obviously sort of slow…

I don’t know how to bake bread, not particularly fond of mules or mule teams and I NEED all the electricity I can get to run the blow dryer, curling iron, nail dryer and all those other superficial girlie things. I like my a/c on “FROZEN”. I wear costume jewelry daily and get my toenails painted. I like LifeTeen Masses and used to play guitar and sing in a contemporary choir. Where in there does one get “Orthodox Quaker???” Well, I do look pretty good in black. That must be it.
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The issues concerning social justice and a stance on non-violence and the sacredness of creation may have been a deciding factor. I would have thought not relying on the sacraments and rituals to be the deciding factor however as Friends don’t practice “outward signs”.
 
Publisher,
I was joking, but you might be right about the social justice issues. Catholics are supposed to be very concerned with them, too, though.
What about all our saints who’ve served the poor? It’s really interesting to me, partly because I’ve read Quaker writings.and enjoy the writings of Richard Foster, a former Quaker.
 
a_priori said:
  1. Orthodox Quaker (100%)
  2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (92%)
  3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (88%)
  4. Eastern Orthodox (81%)
  5. Roman Catholic (81%)
  6. Seventh Day Adventist (77%)
  7. Liberal Quakers (72%)
  8. Baha’i Faith (68%)
  9. Sikhism (67%)
  10. Code: 
    Unitarian Universalism (63%)
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A priori, you’re a catholic convert, what happened? 😛
 
I’ve taken this quiz several times throughout my life. It is what initially led me to convert to Judaism when I thought I had no faith at all, and it is interesting to see the switch now. I know my number one has more to do with my secular beliefs than religious, but still interesting and fun!
  1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
  2. Orthodox Quaker (86%)
  3. Eastern Orthodox (79%)
  4. Roman Catholic (79%)
  5. Liberal Quakers (78%)
  6. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (71%)
  7. Seventh Day Adventist (70%)
  8. Reform Judaism (67%)
  9. Unitarian Universalism (67%)
  10. Code: 
    Baha'i Faith (55%)
Logan
 
From looking back over the posts, there are quite a few with Orthodox Quaker close to the top of the list. This makes me think that the person who designed the test wasn’t too familiar with the social justice / charity-orientation of Catholics.

Ok, all you Catholic Quakers - want to start a group? I’ll bring the store-bought home-made bread…
 
FickleFreckled said:
From looking back over the posts, there are quite a few with Orthodox Quaker close to the top of the list. This makes me think that the person who designed the test wasn’t too familiar with the social justice / charity-orientation of Catholics.

Ok, all you Catholic Quakers - want to start a group? I’ll bring the store-bought home-made bread…
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The language of some of the questions was awkward and this may be the reason why the Apostolic Churches and the Orthdox Quakers to come so close. One of the questions that I explicitly remember being awkwardly worded was the one about God being a physical being. God is not a physical being, yet Christ does have a physical body. So this question was difficult for me, because it took me into the whole theological definition of the God-head, the Trinity and the hypostatic union in the homousious

There were several questions that required some thinking. I could tell that the writer of the questions did not understand the language or made the question deliberately vague.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
JReducation,
That’s true; I was afraid it was just me after a long day. Even the very first question on the nature of the Godhead didn’t really have an answer that quite fit.

It’s been interesting, though, to see the variety of results people have gotten.
 
  1. Eastern Orthodox (100%)
  2. Roman Catholic (100%)
  3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (88%)
  4. Seventh Day Adventist (86%)
  5. Orthodox Quaker (81%)
  6. Hinduism (73%)
  7. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (69%)
  8. Orthodox Judaism (67%)
  9. Jehovah’s Witness (63%)
  10. Code: 
    Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (63%)
  11. Code: 
    Islam (57%)
  12. Code: 
    Sikhism (52%)
  13. Code: 
    Jainism (48%)
  14. Code: 
    Baha'i Faith (45%)
  15. Code: 
    Liberal Quakers (44%)
  16. Code: 
    Theravada Buddhism (37%)
  17. Code: 
    Mahayana Buddhism (36%)
  18. Code: 
    Unitarian Universalism (34%)
  19. Code: 
    Reform Judaism (31%)
  20. Code: 
    Neo-Pagan (25%)
  21. Code: 
    Scientology (19%)
  22. Code: 
    Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (18%)
  23. Code: 
    Nontheist (18%)
  24. Code: 
    New Age (18%)
  25. Code: 
    Taoism (18%)
  26. Code: 
    Secular Humanism (16%)
  27. New Thought (14%)
 
FickleFreckled said:
JReducation,
That’s true; I was afraid it was just me after a long day. Even the very first question on the nature of the Godhead didn’t really have an answer that quite fit.

It’s been interesting, though, to see the variety of results people have gotten.
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I didn’t create the sofware, but I would have placed the Apostolic Churches (Catholic and Orthodox), Protestantism, Judaism and Islam closer together on the list, because they have more in common with each other than with the other faiths on the list.

My results had Orthodox, Catholic, Quakers together and Protestantism and Judaism down the list with some other groups in the middle. I was wondering why the gap since these have more in common with each other.

Obviously the creator does not really understand the connections between the faiths.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
The results are easy to manipulate and I don’t think they indicate much other than a very surface swipe.
 
JReducation,
Yeah, that would make sense.

My 4 was Protestantism and 5 was Judaism. That puts Catholicism right in the middle of the top 5 for me. The only real surprise was Orthodox Quaker at #1, but the more I think about it, the more I like it!
 
  1. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (100%)
  2. Eastern Orthodox (97%)
  3. Roman Catholic (97%)
  4. Orthodox Quaker (95%)
  5. Seventh Day Adventist (94%)
  6. Orthodox Judaism (65%)
  7. Islam (61%)
  8. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (59%)
  9. Hinduism (59%)
  10. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (58%)
 
Heh, I think the its funny how so many are coming up 100% RC and Orthodox lol.
  1. Eastern Orthodox (100%)
  2. Roman Catholic (100%)
  3. Orthodox Quaker (86%)
  4. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (82%)
  5. Seventh Day Adventist (82%)
  6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (67%)
  7. Orthodox Judaism (62%)
  8. Hinduism (59%)
  9. Islam (54%)
  10. Sikhism (52%)
 
JReducation said:
I didn’t create the sofware, but I would have placed the Apostolic Churches (Catholic and Orthodox), Protestantism, Judaism and Islam closer together on the list, because they have more in common with each other than with the other faiths on the list.

My results had Orthodox, Catholic, Quakers together and Protestantism and Judaism down the list with some other groups in the middle. I was wondering why the gap since these have more in common with each other.

Obviously the creator does not really understand the connections between the faiths.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
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Well some questions delt with issues that weren’t strictly theological. So while an say a conservative evangelical is theologically closer to a Catholic beliefs about social justice and such might create a gap that other non-Christian religions can fill. I think that’s why that there was a divide in some cases.
 
Janet1983 said:
Wouldn’t change nothing for me… I myself do not want to be religious again… ever.
I’d rather have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
🙂
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What? Jesus established religious practices/beliefs in order to have a relationship with him. Your comment doesn’t make sense.
 
historyb said:
I don’t believe the Catholic church was the one founded by Christ, I was Catholic and escaped it by God’s Grace. I was raised in a Christian home but I rebelled and went Catholic, it is unfortunate that my parents can’t see that I returned to Christ.
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Well that’s great that you “believe” that but unfortunatley for you the facts don’t support your “belief”.
 
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