Sunday, January 30, 2005

Interesting online-poll

While I was wasting some time this morning before getting down to "protecting the American way of life", I stumbled on to this online-poll (hat-tip to I love Jet Noise). My results are as follows:

1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (100%)
2. Jehovah's Witness (78%)
3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (71%)
4. Orthodox Judaism (71%)
5. Bahá'í Faith (66%)
6. Islam (64%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (61%)
8. Sikhism (61%)
9. Orthodox Quaker (54%)
10. Eastern Orthodox (53%)
11. Roman Catholic (53%)
12. Reform Judaism (50%)
13. Jainism (44%)
14. Liberal Quakers (42%)
15. Seventh Day Adventist (41%)
16. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (40%)
17. Hinduism (37%)
18. Mahayana Buddhism (36%)
19. Theravada Buddhism (35%)
20. Unitarian Universalism (34%)
21. Neo-Pagan (32%)
22. Scientology (24%)
23. New Age (23%)
24. New Thought (23%)
25. Secular Humanism (21%)
26. Taoism (19%)
27. Nontheist (19%)

Although the poll used some words and phrases that I was not familar with, I still scored 100% for the LDS Church, which is what I would have expected. However, right up there was the Jehovah's Witnesses and mainstream Protestant churches. This should not be any surprise since they are all very conservative (defined roles for man/woman, opposition to abortion/homosexuality), but I was surprised to know that 74% of my beliefs are the same as orthodox Judaism and 64% the same as Islam. Interesting how many core beliefs the world's three largest monotheist religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) share. I wonder how the Cap'n would score.



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