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

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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

[acamp1]

1. Mahayana Buddhism (100%)

Doesn't surprise me, actually. I'd long suspected I might be a Buddhist. Now I know.

[OpenedUp]

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (93%)
3. Liberal Quakers (77%)
4. Nontheist (73%)


lol liberal quakers?

That was the only one I found interesting, the others are no surprise.

Well maybe Universalist, but universalist is probably the broadest. It seems like their beliefs can be anything.

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I am not so sure I would see myself as any of these by defintion, but this was the results:


1. Orthodox Judaism (100%)
2. Sikhism (100%)
3. Eastern Orthodox (93%)
4. Roman Catholic (93%)
5. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (87%)
6. Hinduism (86%)
7. Islam (86%)
8. Seventh Day Adventist (79%)
9. Orthodox Quaker (75%)
10. Bahá'í Faith (69%)

[McCulloch]

déjà vu

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (92%)

[Nick_A]

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.

[Goat]

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

[Nick_A]

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


clyde5001
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Level 7 Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Pelham New York
Posts: 285


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.

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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%)

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1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (92%)
3. Nontheist (81%)
4. Theravada Buddhism (72%)
5. Liberal Quakers (71%)
6. Neo-Pagan (60%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (55%)
8. New Age (45%)
9. Taoism (45%)
10. Reform Judaism (36%)
11. Mahayana Buddhism (35%)
12. Orthodox Quaker (29%)
13. New Thought (25%)
14. Scientology (25%)
15. Bahá'í Faith (22%)
16. Sikhism (22%)
17. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (18%)
18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (14%)
19. Jainism (14%)
20. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (11%)
21. Eastern Orthodox (7%)
22. Hinduism (7%)
23. Islam (7%)
24. Orthodox Judaism (7%)
25. Roman Catholic (7%)
26. Seventh Day Adventist (7%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (0%)

Perhaps this is why the JW visitors have a hard time with me?

It is interesting that Catholicism was inflicted upon me as a child (and rejected by age eight).