Where do you fit in on the religion scale? (I'm an atheist.)

[BurtWorm]

On this religion scale anyway...

http://www.quizgalaxy.com/quiz.php?id=47

Me:


You fit in with:
Atheism

Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people.

60% scientific.
100% reason-oriented.

[sakabatou]

1. Humanist

Humanism

Your ideals mostly resemble that of a Humanist. Although you do not have a lot of faith, you are devoted to making this world better, in the short time that you have to live. Humanists do not generally believe in an afterlife, and therefore, are committed to making the world a better place for themselves and future generations.


20% spiritual.
60% reason-oriented.

[deadparrot]

2. Spiritualism.

You fit in with:
Spiritualism

Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms.

60% spiritual.
80% reason-oriented.

[Daphne08]

3. Spiritualism

You fit in with:
Spiritualism

Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms.

60% spiritual.
80% reason-oriented

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Interesting little quiz. Thanks for the link.

[Erika]

4. I'm agnostic

Surprise. Not.

40% reason
40% scientific

[mike6640]

16. Smack dab in the middle of spiritual

'Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms.

40% spiritual.
40% reason-oriented.'

[Bjornsdotter]

5. Atheism

80% scientific
100% reason-oriented

Cheers!

[beam me up scottie]

6. Mine read the same as yours but the percentage was different.

60% scientific.
60% reason-oriented.

[BurtWorm]

11. Interesting.

I wonder what accounts for those little shifts up/down/east/west. I noticed a slight bias toward spiritualism in the questions, I thought, such that I could have answered "neither."

It turns out the quiz defaults to dead center (if you answer no questions).

[beam me up scottie]

14. Very interesting.

There were a couple of questions I shouldn't have answered for the same reason.

[cynatnite]

7. Humanist: a surprise to me

Now, I've got to research what it means. :eyes: That's not to say a five minute quiz is accurate, either.

on edit: A few of the questions were hard because I've never been able to give an absolute yes or no.

[Az]

8. Atheist

60% scientific.
80% reason-oriented.

[LiberalVoice]

9. You fit in with:

Your ideals mostly resemble that of a Humanist. Although you do not have a lot of faith, you are devoted to making this world better, in the short time that you have to live. Humanists do not generally believe in an afterlife, and therefore, are committed to making the world a better place for themselves and future generations.

20% scientific.
80% reason-oriented.

[BattyDem]

10. Humanist

20% scientific.
100% reason-oriented.

Not surprised. :-)

[The Traveler]

12. Spritual

"Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms."

It is bullshit. For example, I believe in evolution as the mechanism of creation ... but there is no way of expressing that belief by answering that quiz.

BTW ... anyone here ever read the writings of the Priest/Anthropologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin? Fascinating stuff.

[Daphne08]

13. My husband took it and he used to be Republican

I cured him. He's now an independent thinker.

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You fit in with:
Taoism

Your ideals mostly resemble those of the Taoist faith. Spirituality is the most important thing in your life. You strive to live by all of your ideals, and live a very intellectually focused life.

40% spiritual.
20% reason-oriented.

[Mythsaje]

15. Spiritualist

Interesting...

40% Faith
100% Reason oriented.

Pretty close to accurate.

On edit: Though I would have preferred a third answer to a lot of those questions...and, considering that I think of myself as a pantheist humanist, meaning that WE must supply the answer to many of these questions.

[typhoontim]

17. totally accurate...

You fit in with:
Atheism

Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people.

100% scientific.
100% reason-oriented.

[Mythsaje]

18. Welcome to DU!! n/t

n/t = no text

[LoKnLoD]

19. Atheist...

Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people.

100% scientific.
80% reason-oriented

[Princess Turandot]

20. Do you think this was set up by a Scientologist?

After being designated a Humanist, I fiddled around with the responses a bit to get designated as a Scientologist.None of the other descriptions posted here for equally worthy sets of beliefs or opinions seems to glow as much. Sounds like a marketing campaign:



"Your ideals mostly resemble those of the Scientology faith. You strive to find the truth in all matters, but you also have a lot of faith in people and things. You are very logical, smart and charismatic and you value the truth above all else!"


Also, I don't think I'd ever think to include Scientology as a possible result in a quiz since they have so few followers compared to all the other categories.Not to mention that relative to their actual beliefs (as opposed to the Galactic stories & rumors abt Tom Cruise)I know very little abt them.

[mcg]

35. Don't know, but it's b.s.

Many of the questions are strangely worded and I couldn't accurately answer yes or no to them. Also, the chart is b.s., it perpetuates the myth of science vs. spiritual and faith vs. reason. As for me, it claims that I'm Taoist. I do like Taoism, but I'm much more eclectic than that.

It's interesting that there are so many atheists hanging out in a religion/theology forum.

[melody]

21. I'm a chocolatist

I believe in the sacredness of chocolate.

[kweerwolf]

22. Spiritual

You fit in with:
Spiritualism

Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms.

60% spiritual.
80% reason-oriented.

[NMMNG]

23. Atheism

Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people.

40% scientific.
80% reason-oriented.

[LaurenG]

24. Spiritualism

You fit in with:
Spiritualism

Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms.

60% spiritual.
80% reason-oriented

[ozone_man]

25. Atheist

60% scientific.
60% reason-oriented.

[More Than A Feeling]

26. This quiz isn't the best I've seen on the subject

The first question on evolution is not an either/or question. The answer could easily be both created and evolved, and I would answer that way if given the chance.

Anyway, it got me wrong, mostly because i didn't answer the questions I felt weren't be asked the right way:

You fit in with:
Taoism

Your ideals mostly resemble those of the Taoist faith. Spirituality is the most important thing in your life. You strive to live by all of your ideals, and live a very intellectually focused life.

50% spiritual.
10% reason-oriented.

I'm a Christian with an orthodox theology (I believe in original sin, Salvation by grace, redemption through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, the Trinity, and so on.)

[PsychoDad]

30. I came out as taoist also

:)

And I'm Muslim, which wasn't even on the map.

I've seen another quiz which was a little better from another site. BeliefNet I think it was.

[Brentos]

27. Spiritualism (Although I'm Christian)

You fit in with:
Spiritualism

Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms.

60% spiritual.
40% reason-oriented.

[Zhade]

28. "You have very little faith" - what an odd statement.

I have faith - in my son's love never ending, in the sun still rising tomorrow.

I just don't believe in unproven gods, which is why I "value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts."

[catbert836]

29. 80% Spiritualist, 90% Reason Oriented

I'm a spiritualist. Cool quiz.

[m0nkeyneck]

31. Atheism

[JerseygirlCT]

32. Well, it told this Episcopalian that

she's a Taoist...

Go figure.

[Nikia]

38. I'm Taoist according to the quiz too

I didn't feel that all the questions/choices really described me though. I wondered about what conclusions that they drew also.

[Maat]

33. Per this test, I fit best with 'spiritualism.'

I disagree with their conclusion; I've found an organized church that fits me perfectly - it is a universalist church that believes in the honoring of all paths - Religious Science.

So, to me, the quiz isn't designed very well, and reflects pretty dogmatic beliefs about attendees of organized churches/temples/mosques.

[opiate69]

34. Atheist

Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people.

60% scientific.
60% reason-oriented.

[FM Arouet666]

36. 100% scientific/80% reason oriented ATHEIST

I must formally apologize to this forum for maintaining a sub par score with regard to reason. I will endeavor to improve.

:evilgrin:

Oh, and thanks for the post I will be interested in testing my religious colleagues.

[Crunchy Frog]

37. I felt that the quiz was somewhat simplistic

both in its questions, and in its conclusions. It had me down as an atheist.

Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people.

40% scientific.
70% reason-oriented.

For the record, I don't regard myself as an atheist, though I don't subscribe to any notion of divinity that resembles anything found in most religious traditions. I am not a very spiritually oriented person, but I do have some level of spirituality which I felt the questions were too crude and simplistic to be able to effectively measure. I found too many questions there to which I didn't feel comfortable answering either way, and would have appreciated being given 3 instead of 2 choices and a little more nuance.

It would be interesting to take a similar quiz that was put together with a bit more nuance.

And yeah, what is that with including Scientology but not including Islam? Or do they just assume that Islam is encompassed within Judaism/Christianity?

Overly simplistic.