Comments on: Belief-O-Matic (registered trademark) http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/31/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/ A Mormon Blog Tue, 29 May 2012 03:50:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: B-rad http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/31/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89682 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:59:00 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89682 1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (100%)
2. Jehovah’s Witness (97%)
3. Bahá’í Faith (74%)
4. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (73%)
5. Orthodox Judaism (70%)
6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (61%)
7. Islam (61%)

well I thought it was interesting to see that Islam was on my top 7…

But atually what they said about LDS was pretty close to true… a few things were not clear or a bit misunderstood.

]]> By: jjohnsen http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/31/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89681 Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:03:58 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89681 I was almost neck-and-neck Bahai, LDS, and liberal Protestant. I’m interested in reading more about Bahai to find out how it’s beleifs match my own.

]]> By: claire http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/31/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89680 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:49:24 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89680 Predictably, I’m 100% LDS.

If you click on the link for information on the various results (maybe the link was what others believe or something like that, I read it last night)and read what they say Mormons believe, it is enlightening on how they weight answers. The most egregious statement was about women’s roles… go read for yourselves. YUCK

So many of us are secret Bahai believers…. what is that about????

]]> By: Mike A. http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/31/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89679 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:08:03 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89679 Buffy as a spiritual guide and being quite Mormon isn’t at all unheard of.
Janna Riess wrote both What Would Buffy Do and Mormonism For Dummies

]]> By: greenfrog http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/31/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89678 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:34:08 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89678 lollollol

]]> By: Crystal http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/31/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89677 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:25:46 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89677 I think it would involve markedly less clothing.

]]> By: greenfrog http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/31/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89676 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:22:12 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89676 Ok, this is me:

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (98%)
3. Mahayana Buddhism (94%)
4. Neo-Pagan (92%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (92%)
6. Secular Humanism (81%)
7. New Age (79%)
8. Jainism (76%)
9. Taoism (76%)
10. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (74%)
11. Hinduism (70%)
12. Sikhism (70%)
13. Orthodox Quaker (66%)
14. Bahá’í Faith (64%)
15. Reform Judaism (62%)
16. Scientology (55%)
17. Nontheist (52%)
18. New Thought (49%)
19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (45%)
20. Orthodox Judaism (38%)
21. Islam (36%)
22. Seventh Day Adventist (35%)
23. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (33%)
24. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (29%)
25. Jehovah’s Witness (21%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (16%)
27. Roman Catholic (16%)

The only one that worries me is the “nontheist.” ;-)

Despite the results, I still have a Priest’s Quorum lesson to prepare on keeping the Sabbath day holy.

Though this probably isn’t the right format for such a discussion, it might be interesting to explore the various Belief-o-Matic questions and answers. I think I recognized the “expected” LDS responses, but I found the wording of many of them so artificially narrow that I couldn’t in good conscience select them.

Either that or I’m really just mostly neo-pagan.

What would a neo-pagan version of a Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy lesson to a Priest’s Quorum look like?

]]> By: Mark Butler http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/31/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89675 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:15:09 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89675 I guess I could have answered the other way (what kind of rational person isn’t an environmentalist of one stripe or another), but I do not think revering nature or the environment is religiously fundamental, though certainly significant in virtually every religion.

]]> By: Mike Kessler http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/31/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89674 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:46:25 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89674 1. Liberal Quakers (100%)
2. Reform Judaism (98%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (93%)
4. Bahá’í Faith (89%)
5. Sikhism (85%)

I’m bummed that Orthodox Judaism was all the way down at #9, since I’m Jewish. I wish they’d had Conservative Judaism on the list. LDS came in at #24.

]]> By: smb http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/31/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89673 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:58:45 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/08/belief-o-matic-registered-trademark/#comment-89673 I guess I’m the only Hindu in the bunch.
I wonder how much Social Gospel answers affect the choice of liberal Protestant vs. Mormon. How sad for us if dowplaying the environment and socially responsible behavior results in greater affinity for belief-net Mormonism. I would think it would go the other direction. And ps, my wife gave an academic paper on religious images in Buffy. I was spellbound at the conference. They should add references to the Buffyverse to this beliefnet poll.

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