I just received a note from my old friend Ken Arnold. He had just discovered that wonderful test at Beliefnet called Belief-O-Matic. It is a hoot. I recall some years ago posting the link for it to a Zen teacher’s listserv and being informed by a noted Soto Zen priest “Damn, James. Turns out I’m one hundred percent Unitarian Universalist!” Actually she used a scatological term rather than “damn,” but I consider this a family-friendly blog. (Which I suspect opens whole avenues of why we consider one word acceptable and another not…)
Anyway, if you haven’t taken it, or haven’t taken it recently, you might enjoy the process. Does open a few interesting questions.
I just ran through it again and it seems fairly consonant with my memory of my last time:
Unitarian Universalist: 100%
Theravada Buddhist: 99%
Liberal Quaker: 90%
And not far behind, Secular Humanist: 87%
I believe they differentiate Theravada & Mahayana Buddhists by one’s interest in or lack of the same regarding the more miraculous aspects of the tradition. Whatever, I never seem to rate high for Mahayana on this test…
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