What is your “Belief Score” on www.Beliefnet.com?

Zzyzx · Post by **Zzyzx** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:02 pm

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What is your “Belief Score” on www.Beliefnet.com?

Beliefnet.com has an interesting feature called “Belief-O-Matic” that asks questions regarding your beliefs and matches your answers to those of twenty-seven different faiths or belief systems. You are NOT required to give even your email address.

It is MOST interesting.

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

Zzyzx · Post by **Zzyzx** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:35 am

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Nick_A wrote:Since Beliefnet management supports denial of the Armenian Genocide and since any form of genocide denial including denial of the Holocaust is about as low as anyone can go, trusting the accuracy of such a feature is open for debate.

How does one rationalize a supposed worldwide genocide by a "god" as being anything other than "as low as anyone can go"?

Was the biblical tale of the flood intended as a joke?

twobitsmedia · Post by **twobitsmedia** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:11 am

achilles12604 wrote:My results actually have changed from a prior time. Interesing.

1. Liberal Quakers (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (95%)
3. Mahayana Buddhism (93%)
4. Jainism (91%)
5. Bahá'í Faith (86%)
6. Sikhism (86%)
7. Hinduism (85%)
8. Reform Judaism (82%)
9. Neo-Pagan (82%)
10. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (79%)
11. Theravada Buddhism (78%)
12. Orthodox Quaker (77%)
13. Orthodox Judaism (71%)
14. Islam (68%)
15. Taoism (66%)
16. New Age (65%)
17. Secular Humanism (64%)
18. Scientology (57%)
19. New Thought (56%)
20. Seventh Day Adventist (54%)
21. Nontheist (45%)
22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (45%)
23. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (40%)
24. Eastern Orthodox (37%)
25. Roman Catholic (37%)
26. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (31%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (20%)

I was fairly indifferent to whether some of the questions were really important, so that may affect my score..(and I am not sure if that is reflective of Judaism or not..........but I could see how it might bring up some of the eastern religions to the top of my score even though I don't fundamentally agree with any of them)........I also didn't answer one question at all because there was no option I thought was correct. On top of that, I a lot of my convictions are subject to change with new information. If I take it again in a few months, I suspect it might be different.

acamp1 · Post by **acamp1** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:09 am

If I take it again in a few months, I suspect it might be different.

Indeed. I took this last year and came in thus:

1) Liberal Quaker
2) Universalist
3) Mahayana Buddhism

Now 1 and 3 have changed places. I sort of recoil from Universalist, though, because it seems so nondescript.

Goat · Post by **Goat** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:10 am

Nick_A wrote:
goat wrote:
Nick_A wrote:Since Beliefnet management supports denial of the Armenian Genocide and since any form of genocide denial including denial of the Holocaust is about as low as anyone can go, trusting the accuracy of such a feature is open for debate.
This sound like an ad homein attack. You have not provided any reason for me to believe your claims
Do yourself a favor and don't get me started with that nastiness. I'm had thought to challenge them around April 24 in open forum in Manhattan which is the day of recognition for the Armenian genocide. Now with new ownership there is nothing for them to defend so I doubt they would respond.

The final straw was this beaut. A friend posted this invitation to listen to the sermon of a Rabbi defending recognition of the Armenian genocide. One poster condemned it and the invitation was soon deleted. This was typical of what went on when I tried to bring attention to the bill being debated in congress. When you start coming after innocent people slaughtered for the sake of the joy of ridicule and it is defended, I must stand with my heritage even though only in part.

A short while back when the Armenian Genocide bill HRes106 was being discussed in congress and Jewish hypocrisy towards it was being debated nationwide, the question came up on the Judaism Debate Board. It was shouted down and considered not an appropriate question for the board so moved to a schmooze board and finally archived. Since then the articles of several Jewish men of moral character capable of speaking out on the Armenian genocide have been deleted.

However, rabbis have largely avoided the moral question. Apparently these rabbis also do not believe genocide recognition to be a question of morality to be dealt with by the moral leaders of the Jewish community.

Of course there are the exceptions. One such exception is Rabbi David Wolpe who is unafraid to deal with this difficult moral question. He recently felt it important enough to give a sermon on the moral question for the benefit of those in the congregation that quite understandably do not know what to do.

HRes106 is dead, The genocide deniers have won. But the question still remains since it must appear again. So for those that think that the question of recognition of the Armenian genocide is more a moral than political question, I invite you to listen to the sermon by Rabbi David Wolpe. It is food for thought. He apparently is one of the few willing to do what a rabbi should do which is to clarify this difficult moral question.

http://www.sinaitemple.org/rabbinic/sermons.php

It is the sermon from October 20, 2007 titled "Lekh L'kha - Should We Declare The Armenian Genocide?" After all the nastiness that has been experienced, it is a pleasure to listen to a man of apparently rare moral courage express what needs to be said

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Let me tell you something kiddo - it was the Turks and the Muslims who killed the Armenians.

So why haven't you posted anything there?

I'll tell you why - this is an excuse to post an anti-Semitic screed against the Jewish people.

And tell me, where is this evidence that the beliefnet people denied the Arenian Genocide.

And, for you information, I AM Jewish. You have provided zero evidence of you ad homenin attack.

I can only assume you are unable to

achilles12604 · Post by **achilles12604** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:53 am

So anyone have any theory why my scores are close to some of the non-theists yet I still believe in, and argue for God's existence and the validity of the Bible?

olavisjo · Post by **olavisjo** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:01 am

Zzyzx wrote:1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (92%)
3. Nontheist (81%)

olavisjo wrote:Encouraging people to make their own decisions is a tenant of your religion.

If I was to name your religion, I would call it ‘secular humanism’ but you may find another similar name.

I also find it very interesting that your religion is very much like the first religion preached to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

Zzyzx wrote: Kindly continue description of my “religion” so readers might understand more fully. I must admit that I know of no such thing existing in my life. It is interesting and informative to have a “seer” speculate and pontificate about things without knowledge.

Do you really think that you know more about my life and my thoughts than I do?

100%, I must know something, I sure hit that one on the head.

What happened to the How do I determine what God requires of me? topic?
Yours and mine last posts are not there, it seems to end on page 14 with that big Elvis head.
Must be the work of Satan?

achilles12604 · Post by **achilles12604** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:24 am

olavisjo wrote:
What happened to the How do I determine what God requires of me? topic?
Yours and mine last posts are not there, it seems to end on page 14 with that big Elvis head.
Must be the work of Satan?

Na. My last post was just incredibly correct that no one could argue. LOL

Furrowed Brow · Post by **Furrowed Brow** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:29 am

1. Nontheist (100%)
2. Secular Humanism (100%)
3. Theravada Buddhism (80%)
4. Unitarian Universalism (80%)
5. Liberal Quakers (45%)
6. Neo-Pagan (45%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (22%)
8. Taoism (20%)
9. New Age (12%)
10. Bahá'í Faith (0%)
11. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (0%)
12. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (0%)
13. Eastern Orthodox (0%) 14. Hinduism (0%) 15. Islam (0%)
16. Jainism (0%)
17. Jehovah's Witness (0%)
18. Mahayana Buddhism (0%)

This set of results is more clear cut than last time. Maybe this means I'm getting more extreme.

Eph · Post by **Eph** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:45 pm

1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (100%)
2. Jehovah's Witness (83%)
3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (81%)
4. Orthodox Quaker (78%)
5. Orthodox Judaism (77%)
6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (77%)
7. Bahá'í Faith (75%)
8. Islam (69%)
9. Eastern Orthodox (67%)
10. Hinduism (67%)
11. Roman Catholic (67%)
12. Jainism (62%)
13. Mahayana Buddhism (62%)
14. Seventh Day Adventist (61%)
15. Liberal Quakers (60%)
16. Sikhism (60%)
17. Neo-Pagan (55%)
18. Unitarian Universalism (52%)
19. Theravada Buddhism (50%)
20. Reform Judaism (46%)
21. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (45%)
22. New Age (32%)
23. Secular Humanism (32%)
24. Taoism (26%)
25. Scientology (24%)
26. New Thought (24%)
27. Nontheist (24%)

Wow, I guess I can get my Temple recommend now (chuckle). (Some of the questions needed more diagnosis.). There are a lot more nontheists in this forum than I thought.

achilles12604 · Post by **achilles12604** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:14 pm

Eph wrote:
Wow, I guess I can get my Temple recommend now (chuckle). (Some of the questions needed more diagnosis.). There are a lot more nontheists in this forum than I thought.

The non-theists simply yell louder and more often.