Pagan (was What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
> <dumbledore11214@> wrote:
> >
> > > Carol responds:
> > > I wonder about the reliability of this survey. At any rate, my 
> > results
> > > are rather surprisingly similar to yours:
> > > 
> > > 1. 	Liberal Quakers  (100%)
> > > 2. 	Reform Judaism (100%)
> > > 3. 	Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (98%)
> > > 4. 	Neo-Pagan (96%)
> > > 5. 	Unitarian Universalism (93%)
> > > 6. 	Bahá'í Faith (92%)
> > > 7. 	Sikhism (87%)
> > > 8. 	New Age (85%)
> > > 9. 	Mahayana Buddhism (80%)
> > > 10. Theravada Buddhism (78%)
> > > 11. New Thought (73%)
> > > 12. Secular Humanism (73%)
> > > 13. Orthodox Quaker (70%)
> > > 14. Orthodox Judaism (67%)
> > > 15. Scientology (65%)
> > > 
> > > Carol, wondering if perhaps Protestants and neo-pagans have more
> in  common than either group thinks
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Alla:
> > 
> > Hmmm, in what sense you wonder about reliability? I mean, I am 
not 
> > sure of course how reliable it is, since most of those religions 
I 
> > have only very general idea of what they are all about or none at 
> > all.
> > 
> > But I mean my answers characterized my beliefs very close. Do you 
> > mean how they match the actual religions?
> 
> 
> Carol responds:
> 
> I meant that it was odd that you and I, who seem to have such
> different worldviews, should have such similar results, and it's 
also
> odd that I should be 100 % in agreement with both Reform Judaism and
> liberal Quakers (not particular religions, to my knowledge) and 96% 
in
> agreement with Neo-Paganism, which is supposedly so opposed to
> mainline to liberal Protestantism (with which the results show I 
agree
> 96%). So, yes. I suppose I mean that I'm not sure how closely the
> results mirror the actual beliefs of people actively and knowingly
> practicing the listed religions. 85% in agreement with New Age? 
That's
> news to me!
> 
> Carol, wondering how much depended on how we weighed the importance 
of
> the answers (low, medium, or high) and sure that she would get 
rather
> different results if she took the survey on a different day
>


I paid a lot of attention to low, medium and high this time, and got 
results that were much closer to what I believe than I did the first 
time...Susan