Answer 36 belief statements from a national survey, and see which religious tradition your answers land closest to — and how evangelical your answers are compared to the rest of the country.
Each statement was put to real survey respondents who identified as Evangelical, and separately to respondents overall. For every answer you can give, we compare how common that answer is among evangelicals to how common it is among everyone else, and take the ratio. Answering the way evangelicals answer more often than other people do pushes your score up; answering the way they answer less often pushes it down. Your total score is just those ratios added together across every question you answer.
“Everyone else” is not simply the general public, because the general public includes evangelicals — that would bias every comparison toward the middle. We estimate evangelicals are about 25% of U.S. adults and subtract that share back out of the general-public numbers before comparing.
These statements are correlated — someone who calls one thing a sin tends to call a related thing a sin too — so adding up raw ratios would overstate how confident we should be. We divide the total by a fixed factor (currently 2.5) to correct for that.
We don't report this as a probability (“87% evangelical”) because that number wouldn't mean anything reliable. Instead we score the actual 3,001 real people who took the 2025 State of Theology survey, using their own survey weights, and tell you what percentage of them you outscored. That percentile is the headline number, and it's a literal comparison — no simulation involved.
We do the same thing separately for each religious tradition in the survey (Evangelical, Black Protestant, Mainline, Roman Catholic, and everyone else), so you can see how you compare to each group on its own, not just to the country as a whole. Smaller groups mean a less precise comparison — Black Protestant respondents in this survey number only 103, so read a close finish there as roughly right rather than exact.
One statement — the “first and greatest being created” question about Christ's nature — comes from an earlier (2022) wave of the survey and was dropped from the 2025 instrument. We kept it because it's theologically interesting, but since the 2025 respondents you're compared against were never asked it, it doesn't count toward your percentile. We do still tell you how your answer to that one question compares to the real 2022 respondents who were asked it — we checked, and that specific question wasn't swapped for a different one between survey waves, even though at least one other statement was, which is why we don't try to build a full second comparison out of that year's data.
This is a similarity measure against survey response patterns, not a doctrinal test, not a judgment about your faith, and not a measure of whether any position here is true.