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The Belief-O-Matic

I took the Belief-o-Matic.

My results:

Your Results:

The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa.

Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.

1. Eastern Orthodox (100%)
2. Roman Catholic (100%)
3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (87%)
4. Seventh Day Adventist (80%)
5. Orthodox Quaker (78%)
6. Hinduism (62%)
7. Orthodox Judaism (60%)
8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (60%)
9. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (54%)
10. Islam (53%)
11. Jehovah's Witness (51%)
12. Sikhism (45%)
13. Liberal Quakers (42%)
14. Jainism (35%)
15. Bahá'í Faith (35%)
16. Mahayana Buddhism (34%)
17. Theravada Buddhism (34%)
18. Reform Judaism (32%)
19. Unitarian Universalism (30%)
20. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (22%)
21. Scientology (20%)
22. New Thought (19%)
23. Neo-Pagan (17%)
24. Taoism (17%)
25. Nontheist (14%)
26. New Age (11%)
27. Secular Humanism (10%)

If they threw in a couple of questions on Papal Authority and the Filioque clause, then certainly Catholicism would have come in first.

I was asked recently by a niece how I viewed other faiths, and I responded to her as follows.

I am a Catholic. If I could not be a Catholic I would be Orthodox. If I could not be Orthodox, I would be an Anglican. If I could not be an Anglican, I would be a Lutheran. If I could not be a Lutheran, I would be a Presbyterian. If I could not be a Prebyterian, I would be a Methodist. If I could not be a Methodist, I would be a Baptist. If I could not be a Baptist, I would be a Congregationalist. If I could not be a Congregationalist, I would be a Unitarian. If I could not be a Unitarian, I would be a Mormon.

If I could not be a Mormon, I would be a Jew. If I could not be a Jew, I would be a Muslim. If I could not be a Muslim, I would be a Buddhist. If I could not be a Buddhist, I woud be a Taoist. If I could not be a Taoist, I would be a Hindu.

And if I could not be a Hindu, I would worship the Sun.

I suppose there are other things I could have named. I suppose Zoroastrianism and various flavors of African Pantheism are also still practiced on the Earth; I suppose that Gardnerian or Celtic-style wicca is also a theoretical possibility, though more likely I would create an Elvish liturgy around the works of Tolkien, if I had to pick a mid-twentieth century British writer to base a religion on.

And I honestly do not know enough about Methodism to determine whether to place it ahead of Presbyterianism in my schema of Protestant faiths. But that's a rough breakdown.

I judge every faith by its decree of accord with Catholicism; because I believe that Catholicism is true. Put simply, I believe in two things. I believe that Jesus Christ is who He says He is. And I believe the Catholic church is what it says it is. If you accept those two things, then everything else follows.

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