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Learned of this quiz via one of my favorite blogs (the writers are all brilliant and I aspire to express myself 1/10 as eloquently as they do).
Isn’t it wonderful how much we all have in common?
P.S-Why do you think they chose Brigham Young as the symbol to represent the LDS religion? Is he really that identifiable?
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June 20th, 2009 on 2:28 pm
For some reason your results weren’t showing up properly for me at first so I could only see the first two and thought you were being sarcastic about having so much in common. Still not sure how serious you are as I guess I knew that you disagreed with a lot of things that I consider essential to Christianity, but the fact that it’s only about 50% in common was even lower than I expected.
Here’s a question though, what is the Mormon view of Jehova’s Witnesses? Do you even distinguish between other variations of Christianity or do you consider all non-Mormon faiths on the same level?
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June 20th, 2009 on 5:58 pm
My results seem pretty well spot on for me. Here’s the top 10:
1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (91%)
3. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (82%)
4. Non-theist (78%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (74%)
6. Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (72%)
7. Reform Judaism (65%)
8. Neo-Pagan (65%)
9. New Age (58%)
10. Taoism (56%)
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June 20th, 2009 on 7:32 pm
It is interesting. I think disrespect between religions is particularly upsetting largely by virtue of the similarities we all share.
My results had me identifying most closely with Reform Judaism and Liberal Quakers! My results are a little interesting due to my personal beliefs on issues like abortion, homosexuality and evolution. I personally can’t accept that 5,000 year old teachings must instruct the way we live our lives in a totally different world. That being said, I reserve no judgement for those that believe differently to me. This is, however, the reason that I believe that religion should have absolutely no place in politics and legislation.
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June 20th, 2009 on 7:46 pm
I should expand upon my above post - while I think religious teachings and practice (for me) are important, I don’t believe they should ENTIRELY instruct the way we live our lives in a different world. I am not a literal believer in any religious text, it is more that I take a moral lesson or idea from them and try to live my life by as many of the recommended practices as possible. But again, that’s just my personal approach.
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June 20th, 2009 on 8:01 pm
This is really interesting — my top ten:
1. Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant
2. Eastern Orthodox
3. Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends
4. Seventh Day Adventist
5. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
6. Roman Catholic
7. Orthodox Judaism
8. Islam
9. Jehovahs Witness
10. Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants
I’d really like to know how this quiz defines all these things.. like how am I more like Eastern Orthodox than Roman Catholic?? I find it kind of funny that I’m more like a Muslim than a liberal Protestant
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June 20th, 2009 on 8:28 pm
i got orthodox quaker!
and church of LDS was actually #3 for me, i think? interesting 
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June 22nd, 2009 on 8:56 am
I got the secular humanism too - but I knew what I would have to click to get the roman catholic (which I am). I guess I’m just to rational and scientific (given my background as a geneticist). I got LDS as a close second, which was kind of a surprise, given my view on issues you already raised on your blog.
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June 22nd, 2009 on 11:32 am
Thanks, Jenna! This really opened my eyes to some religions that I hadn’t really looked into much that may fit my beliefs well.
1. Reform Judaism (100 %)
2. Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (87 %)
3. Christian Science Church of Christ, Scientist (86 %)
4. Bahai (85 %)
5. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (83 %)
6. Jehovahs Witness (83 %)
7. Orthodox Judaism (81 %)
8. Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends (76 %)
9. Islam (73 %)
10. Liberal Quakers - Religious Society of Friends (72 %)
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June 23rd, 2009 on 8:54 am
I enjoyed this quiz.
My top was Christian Conservative Protestant (100%) and LDS came in at 53%-reciprocally similar to your 56% mainline Christian Conservative Protestant.
Pretty interesting stuff!
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