Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Religion intolerance and ethnocentrism

 Intolerance is everywhere.  Even when we aren't intolerant, we are still ethnocentric.  I find this to be especially true in religion.

As part of my Theory of Knowledge homework we had to do this quiz (http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Quizzes/BeliefOMatic.aspx).  This quiz takes your answer on religion and spits out a list of religions that are close to your answers.  When I did the quiz I was surprised by how many religions that I figured were way different than mine were actually similar.  Now, before I tell you my results, I challenge you to take this short quiz!

So I was given a list of 27 religions, ranked in order of percentage, based on my answers.  Here they are:

1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (90%)
3. Orthodox Quaker (88%)
4. Reform Judaism (88%)
5. Baha'i Faith (88%)
6. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (86%)
7. Unitarian Universalism (79%)
8. Islam (77%)
9. Orthodox Judaism (77%)
10. Jehovah's Witness (74%)
11. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (72%)
12. Sikhism (68%)
13. Mahayana Buddhism (64%)
14. Theravada Buddhism (63%)
15. Neo-Pagan (62%)
16. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (60%)
17. New Age (57%)
18. Secular Humanism (55%)
19. Seventh Day Adventist (52%)
20. Jainism (51%)
21. Eastern Orthodox (50%)
22. Roman Catholic (50%)
23. Scientology (49%)
24. New Thought (46%)
25. Taoism (45%)
26. Hinduism (32%)
27. Nontheist (31%)


There are a lot of religions I've never heard of on this list.  I must go investigate.  How about your list?  Did it surprise you?  Comment below!

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