{"id":875,"date":"2007-02-28T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T13:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=875"},"modified":"2007-02-28T13:54:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T13:54:01","slug":"im_a_unitarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/28\/im_a_unitarian\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m a Unitarian?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmmmm… this is unexpected: according to the Belief-o-Matic&#153<\/a> over at BeliefNet<\/a>, the religion that most closely matches my personal beliefs (at least as interpreted by an online multiple-choice-style quiz) is Unitarian Universalism<\/a>, with Liberal Quakerism<\/a> and secular humanism<\/a> tied for second place. Mormonism, the dominant faith of my home state and the one with which I have the most personal experience and knowledge of, came in at number 24 out of 27 possible matches. That’s lower than Islam, Hinduism, and even Scientology.<\/p>\n

I usually self-identify as an agnostic — I’m not comfortable flat-out denying the possibility of the divine, but I have a lot of doubts, and religion simply doesn’t play any role in my day-to-day existence, except for those moments when living in Utah inevitably demands one to deal with it — so I expected this thing to tell me I was a big ol’ secular humanist. The Unitarian and Quaker results genuinely surprised me. And to be honest, it also surprised me that Mormonism ranked so low. After all, I was raised here, immersed in that faith, even if I wasn’t practicing it; most of my family and friends are LDS, and I really don’t think of myself as hostile to Mormonism, at least no more so than I am to any other religion. (By which I mean that I object to those of any<\/i> faith who would tell me how to live my life or that I’m not a moral person because I don’t do all the things they do, but I really don’t care what people do or do not believe themselves.) You’d think that a lot of Mormon ideas would be present in my belief system simply by default.<\/p>\n

I’m probably making too much of this — after all, Internet quizzes have also told me that I’m Arthur C. Clarke<\/a> and Spider-Man<\/a>, and I should know to take them all with an iceberg-sized grain of salt. Still, it’s food for thought, isn’t it?
\nIf you’re interested, the complete breakdown of my results is below the fold:<\/p>\n

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  1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)<\/li>\n
  2. Liberal Quakers (93%)<\/li>\n
  3. Secular Humanism (93%)<\/li>\n
  4. Theravada Buddhism (85%)<\/li>\n
  5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (77%)<\/li>\n
  6. Neo-Pagan (75%)<\/li>\n
  7. Nontheist (68%)<\/li>\n
  8. New Age (64%)<\/li>\n
  9. Mahayana Buddhism (63%)<\/li>\n
  10. Reform Judaism (62%)<\/li>\n
  11. Taoism (61%)<\/li>\n
  12. Orthodox Quaker (60%)<\/li>\n
  13. Baha’i Faith (50%)<\/li>\n
  14. Jainism (48%)<\/li>\n
  15. New Thought (46%)<\/li>\n
  16. Scientology (40%)<\/li>\n
  17. Orthodox Judaism (33%)<\/li>\n
  18. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (33%)<\/li>\n
  19. Seventh Day Adventist (31%)<\/li>\n
  20. Sikhism (31%)<\/li>\n
  21. Hinduism (28%)<\/li>\n
  22. Islam (28%)<\/li>\n
  23. Mainline to Conservative Christian\/Protestant (28%)<\/li>\n
  24. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (27%)<\/li>\n
  25. Jehovah’s Witness (16%)<\/li>\n
  26. Eastern Orthodox (14%)<\/li>\n
  27. Roman Catholic (14%)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Thanks to my buddy Mike G. for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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