Yeah, you got me, but it's very very close. Probably there should be some kind of playoff structure between the top four. Semifinal seedings: UU vs. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants, Therevada Buddists vs. Secular Humanists! Let the fight for my adherance begin!
>UU vs. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants, Therevada Buddists vs. Secular Humanists!
Now that's a fight I'd pay a pay-per-view fee to see!
Liberal Christians to UUs: You're just a watered down version of us! You stole all our hymns and made the lyrics more wishy-washy! You don't even believe in anything!
UUs to Liberal Christians: We're everything you always wanted from Christianity, without all the ridiculous metaphysical claptrap that you still half-heartedly ask your congregations to swallow!
I don't really know enough about Thereveda Buddhism to do that fight justice.
10:32 PM, May 29, 2006
...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated. [WARNING: SHAMELESS PROSELYTIZING] Why might you be assimilated? Because you may be a Unitarian Universalist, and just not know it yet! Take the good ol' belief-o-matic test and see. (I'm sure you've done the belief-o-matic before, it's been bounced around the 'net about a zillion times.) I'm convinced that UUism is highly compatible with the geeky demographic of my readership (all 6 of you, but there will be more soon!). To be fair, I suspect UUism comes ranked highly in many belief-o-matic results because UUism is compatible with a fairly wide set of beliefs. Here are some Unitarian Universalist jokes: Q: Why are Unitarian Universalists such lousy hymn singers? A: Because they're always scanning ahead to see whether they agree with the lyrics or not. Q: How do you know you've angered the Unitarian Universalist branch of the KKK? A: You look outside one morning and find a burning question mark on your lawn. A Unitarian Universalist died, and to his surprise discovered that there was indeed an afterlife. The angel in charge of these things told him, "Because you were an unbeliever and a doubter and a skeptic, you will be sent to Hell for all eternity -- which, in your case, consists of a place where no one will disagree with you ever again!" Here are my results on the belief-o-matic: 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) [Of course!] 2. Secular Humanism (98%) 3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (90%) 4. Liberal Quakers (87%) 5. Nontheist (72%) 6. Neo-Pagan (69%) 7. Theravada Buddhism (67%) 8. Reform Judaism (60%) 9. Baha'i Faith (58%) 10. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (57%) 11. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (53%) 12. New Age (52%) 13. Taoism (51%) 14. New Thought (50%) 15. Sikhism (46%) 16. Scientology (45%) 17. Mahayana Buddhism (40%) 18. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (40%) 19. Orthodox Quaker (34%) 20. Jehovah's Witness (30%) 21. Eastern Orthodox (23%) 22. Islam (23%) 23. Jainism (23%) 24. Orthodox Judaism (23%) 25. Roman Catholic (23%) 26. Hinduism (23%) 27. Seventh Day Adventist (20%)
posted by Zachary Drake at 10:55 AM on May 29, 2006
"We are Unitarian Universalists..."
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No suprises on my end - I'm a mainline to liberal christian protestant, as fitting with my Methodist mission school upbringing.
12:33 PM, May 29, 2006
Yeah, you got me, but it's very very close. Probably there should be some kind of playoff structure between the top four. Semifinal seedings: UU vs. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants, Therevada Buddists vs. Secular Humanists! Let the fight for my adherance begin!
9:34 PM, May 29, 2006
>UU vs. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants, Therevada Buddists vs. Secular Humanists!
Now that's a fight I'd pay a pay-per-view fee to see!
Liberal Christians to UUs: You're just a watered down version of us! You stole all our hymns and made the lyrics more wishy-washy! You don't even believe in anything!
UUs to Liberal Christians: We're everything you always wanted from Christianity, without all the ridiculous metaphysical claptrap that you still half-heartedly ask your congregations to swallow!
I don't really know enough about Thereveda Buddhism to do that fight justice.
10:32 PM, May 29, 2006