65 traditions · 17 axes · every cell sourced
Which traditions actually match what you think
Eight to fourteen questions, each chosen from your last answer. Your positions get placed on seventeen doctrinal axes and compared against 65 traditions — with the reasons shown, not just a percentage.
- 65
- traditions, each scored cell by cell against a cited source
- 17
- doctrinal axes, none of which presupposes that a god exists
- 8–14
- questions, selected adaptively rather than from a fixed list
- 0
- answers sent to our servers, ever — the engine runs in your browser
Not “you are 87% Buddhist”
That number means nothing — it changes depending on which other traditions happen to be in the list. Every tradition here is scored independently on its own scale, so two can legitimately both score 91%, and you are shown the axes where you agree and the axes where you do not.
| Tradition | A1 | A2 | A3 | B1 | B3 | C2 | D2 | E1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunni Islam | 1.00 | .92 | .02 | .08 | .32 | .02 | .03 | .10 |
| Roman Catholicism | 1.00 | .95 | .20 | .15 | .05 | .02 | .05 | .25 |
| Theravada Buddhism | .35 | .08 | .35 | .68 | .30 | .95 | .55 | .35 |
| Advaita Vedanta | 1.00 | .15 | .30 | .52 | .25 | .92 | .62 | .78 |
| Umbanda | 1.00 | .78 | .92 | .82 | .28 | .88 | .05 | .90 |
| Quaker Christianity (Religious Society of Friends) | .82 | .70 | .08 | .88 | .92 | .05 | .92 | .82 |
| Stoicism | .62 | .25 | .20 | .92 | .88 | .55 | .88 | .70 |
| Secular Humanism | .02 | .02 | .02 | .98 | .95 | .05 | .92 | .85 |
The seventeen axes
Chosen to cut across traditions rather than down them. None uses insider vocabulary, and each is one a thoughtful person can actually answer about themselves.
A · The divine
- A1 Divine realitynothing beyond the natural → a divine reality certainly exists
- A2 Personhoodimpersonal principle or order → a personal being one can address
- A3 Pluralitystrictly one → many powers and spirits
- A4 Locuswholly beyond the world → fully present within it
B · Knowledge and authority
- B1 Source of truthrevealed and fixed → reason and direct experience
- B2 Reading of sacred textliteral and binding → metaphorical, or no text at all
- B3 Institutional authorityclergy and tradition decide → individual conscience decides
C · Self and destiny
- C1 Survival of the selfends at death → continues in some form
- C2 Shape of timeone life, then judgment → cyclical return
- C3 The human conditionfallen and in need of rescue → ignorant but fundamentally sound
D · Practice
- D1 Mechanism of the ultimate goodgiven as grace → achieved by effort or insight
- D2 Centrality of ritualessential and prescribed → optional or absent
- D3 The bodyto be disciplined → to be celebrated
E · World and others
- E1 Exclusivityone true path → many valid paths
- E2 Origin of the cosmosan intentional act → beginningless or natural
- E3 Locus of belonginga people, inherited → an individual choice
- E4 Standing of naturecreation, given for use → animate and itself sacred
Your top five, with reasons
Free- Five closest traditions with independent agreement scores
- A per-axis breakdown for your closest match
- A paragraph on each, and a result card worth sharing
- A confidence figure, and the axes you left undecided
All 65, and why
€9- The complete ranking, not just the top of it
- Every axis: your position, each tradition’s, and the size of the gap
- What your closest traditions would say about where you diverge
- A sourced reading list per tradition, and a PDF to keep
Generated from the matrix, not by a language model. Same inputs, same report, every time — and nothing in it can be invented.
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