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Belief-O-Matic must be broken

• Richard Evans Lee

Having a couple of spare minutes to murder I took Belief.net's Belief-O-Matic quiz. My results?

Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)

Beats the Hell out of me. I should've been "Nontheist" (since they don't seem to have anti-theist).

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Honestly, that quiz should be a lot simpler than it is. I can imagine a quiz that starts out about whether you believe in god or not, and cutting about 90% of those questions out. If you don't believe in a god, how do you believe in salvation? Who do you repent to? I think that quiz simply tries to convince people they believe in something, when most of us either don't believe, or anti-believe. See, you're just like us, you're a liberal Christian atheist!

Posted by: Eli Sarver | March 8, 2004 8:34 PM

I keep getting UU, followed by Secular Humanism,Theraveda Buddhism , Liberal Christian Protestant, then nontheist. I reckon that what misleads the purveyors of this quiz is a basic assumption that if you agree with anything humane or compassionate at all, you can't be an atheist. After all, they're the baddies.

Posted by: Terri | March 10, 2004 7:39 AM

Did anybody read the description of Roman Catholic, and feel the urge to impale themselves on a large, not-too-sharp, wooden stick? I did. My parents baptized me Roman Catholic when I was a baby. Damn them... Secular Humanists is the only "belief" that sounds legal. I can't get this dirty feeling off of me after reading that Roman Catholic spew.. Gahhhh!!

Posted by: Lord_Alex | April 10, 2004 1:48 AM

I wonder what I would be? I worship a rock in the middle of a 4x4 Racing Faciliy in the deserts north of Powell, Wyoming... Our hymns come from rathergood.com and our ofterlife is the "moment after next" ... we (that is my g/f and i) believe in enjoying life embracing it, being kind to others doing nice things... Clayton looked like a good rock to edify into a God, so, we did.

Posted by: zoey | April 10, 2004 4:30 AM

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Richard

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