Beliefnet has a good quiz with some interesting wuestions on it, which spits out a list of the Faiths/Religions which best suit your answers.
Here's mine (in order of compatibility by percentage):
1. Liberal Quakers (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (98%)
3. Reform Judaism (88%)
4. Neo-Pagan (88%)
5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (80%)
6. New Age (79%)
7. Mahayana Buddhism (79%)
8. Secular Humanism (74%)
9. Bahá'í Faith (69%)
10. New Thought (66%)
11. Taoism (65%)
12. Theravada Buddhism (65%)
13. Jainism (64%)
14. Sikhism (61%)
15. Orthodox Quaker (56%)
16. Scientology (53%)
17. Orthodox Judaism (52%)
18. Hinduism (50%)
19. Nontheist (48%)
20. Islam (44%)
21. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (38%)
22. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (26%)
23. Seventh Day Adventist (26%)
24. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (25%)
25. Eastern Orthodox (17%)
26. Roman Catholic (17%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (6%)
_______
Now what's fascinating is how many shades of Paganism are in my top ten there. It's quite reassuring that Mormonism, which I simply cannot take seriously comes below Islam.
I have to admit, I know nothing about Unitarian Universalism, but it reeks of PC doublespeak for something which doesn't really need a label, in the same way as Secular Humanism can be summed up by the word "Atheist".
We are too ready to label things, to compartmentalise and segregate. This is what draws me to Paganism - the freedom of spirit, the emphasis on personal choice, on being expected to decide your own path.
A friend of mine made me laugh like a drain recently: She's rekindling her interest in witchcraft - she's already bought herself her cauldron, and is upset because she can't find a decent broomstick! What's more, she didn't have a clue about the importance of Deosil vs Widdershins, or the importance of marking the festival days. She's found herself an "open circle" of local witches to join with her highly catholic friend. Good luck to her I say. The only thing I've got to do is stop Charlie getting all self-righteous and condescending every time. She's not as comfortable with the "let them get on with it" approach. Unlike her, I can recognise it as a fad, and I can comfortably sit back and watch her make a pigs ear of things. In a month's time, we'll phone up and ask how their coven's going and get told she's not bothered going because they did things all wrong. LOL!
I chose the pseudo-label of Hedgewitch because I feel naturally drawn to nature - as I've said before, I'd be happily settled if I lived in a cave or a wood hut somewhere. I watch things like "Meet the Ancestors" and "Time Team" as they investigate some iron-age site and reconstruct the mud and sticks dwellings and I'm filed with a sense of "home".
Maybe it's just a hankering for a simpler, less complex life - the only worries being where the next meal's coming from, keeping the fire going and avoiding usually ignorable but now possibly fatal illnesses like food poisoning.
The wilderness is definitely my natural environment. If I didn't live near as much greenery as I do, I'd go spare. The one time I have lived in the concrete centre of this sprawling metropolis, I got on a bus and searched for my own bit of greenness.
