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[Bozack]

1.    Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2.    Liberal Quakers (85%)
3.    Secular Humanism (80%)
4.    Theravada Buddhism (72%)
5.    Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (71%)

When I was growing up, my mom was fundamentalist Christian, while my father was fundamentalist Catholic. This worked about as well as putting cats in bags, and basically gave me an intense need to have religious beliefs, coupled with a vague nausea every time they get discussed (the last time someone had a religious discussion with me, I broke down crying in a coffeeshop; the time before, I had to go to the hospital). So I guess it's not that odd that what I grew up in was wayyyy at the bottom.
Now that I'm doing a lot of studying in Asian art, I'm starting to contemplate becoming a Buddhist. God, how stereotypical am I?

[Ben-San]

1.    Reform Judaism (100%)
2.    Liberal Quakers (94%)
3.    Unitarian Universalism (88%)
4.    Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (82%)
5.    Neo-Pagan (80%)


As a Reform Jew who went to a Quaker college, these results don't exactly shock and startle me.

[AlohaDawg]

Am I a bad Christian just for being here in the first place?

/kidding.

[Bozack]

WHOOOAAAA, apparently this Theravada Buddhism has something about ceasing the craving for sensuality? Looks like I dodged THAT bullet!
I'm going to replace "Theravada Buddhism" on my list with "Hedonist/Nympho."

[Turbo Ninja]

1. UU (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (99%)
3. Secular Humanism (97%)
4. Taoism (87%)
5. Neo-Paganism (87%)

I am five times more Scientologist (55%) than Roman Catholic (11%), which will disappoint and frighten my Catholic mom.

[V-Adore]

1.    Unitarian Universalism  (100%)
2.    Secular Humanism (96%)
3.    Liberal Quakers (88%)
4.    Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (84%)
5.    Neo-Pagan (76%)
6.    Sikhism (68%)
7.    Theravada Buddhism (67%)
8.    Nontheist (66%)
9.    Reform Judaism (66%)
10.    New Age (59%)

I'm not sure any of this is a surprise, although I've always felt closer to Catholicism than Protestantism. (Then again, I self-identify as a science-focused agnostic -- "isn't the universe beautiful? I don't have a bloody clue whether or not a god is responsible" -- with some deistic tendencies. Who knows?)

[slink]

Then again, I self-identify as a science-focused agnostic -- "isn't the universe beautiful? I don't have a bloody clue whether or not a god is responsible"

This is essentially my line of thought on things. I feel that if there is a God of some sort, it is in terms of the 'within one and all' thing, and that there is no need to be tied to any way of life to achieve an afterlife, which I believe is just religions way of controlling the masses. But I do feel that, to live a good life one should be morally culpable - treat others as you would want to be treated - just seems like common sense to me!
It's like, surely everyone wants to be happy, so surely we should all help make sure we all are. *sigh*

[wombat]

1A: Help people.
1B: Don't be a fuck.
2: Repeat

This is perfect.  And it's so much easier to memorize than the long Catholic prayers of my youth.

[slink]

1A: Help people.
1B: Don't be a fuck.
2: Repeat

And for those like I, who would find that hard to remember:

10 Help People
20 Don't be a fuck
30 GOTO 10

[V-Adore]

I also generally agree with "help people, don't be a fuck, repeat." I don't feel a religious imperative to be a good person, but I do feel a personal and moral imperative to do so.

[Nabubrush]

I probably don't do enough on the helping peopleside, but I'm doing pretty well on don't be a fuck.

[AugustWest]

1A: Help people.
1B: Don't be a fuck.
2: Repeat

And for those like I, who would find that hard to remember:

10 Help People
20 Don't be a fuck
30 GOTO 10

Well, that's pretty BASIC.

[slink]

Well, that's pretty BASIC.

Harder to do in a language with no basic GOTO instruction.
You have to start adding variables into your if/while loops accounting for whether you're dead or not yet, and that just causes whole semantic arguments best avoided!

[Carlos del Vaca]

Hey, 96% for Mahayana Buddhism.  Which, rather conveniently, is what I subscribe to (specifically Zen).

[Va]

1.    Secular Humanism  (100%)
2.    Theravada Buddhism (95%)
3.    Unitarian Universalism (84%)
4.    Nontheist (83%)
5.    Liberal Quakers (75%)
6.    Neo-Pagan (72%)
7.    Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (67%)
8.    Mahayana Buddhism (65%)
9.    New Thought (58%)
10.    New Age (57%)

I don't believe in any gods, and I don't think any exist outside the minds of god-believers.  I believe that everything has a naturalistic explanation that can, in principle, be discovered. I believe all human relations should be voluntary.