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Saturday, January 20, 2007

You know the Bible 87%!
 

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

Ultimate Bible Quiz



Huh. Who'd have guessed?

Comments:
I hate to burst your bubble oh Irish one...I guessed on a good 80% of those questions and still got the following score:

"You know the Bible 69%!

Wow! You are truly a student of the Bible! Some of the questions were difficult, but they didn't slow you down! You know the books, the characters, the events . . . Very impressive!"

No - I don't know the Bible. Some were common sense but there is no way I got 70% correct.

As if it weren't bad enough this imaginary god creature wasted my Sunday mornings growing up - now his followers are going to be the destruction of this earth. *sigh*

Mr. Livin' In America - have you read The God Delusion or the End of Faith? How do you feel about it being an obviously catholic Irish-American?
 
Wow. You're really angry. Grab a glass of wine and chill. Please.

I did skim "The God Delusion" at Border's yesterday afternoon. Dawkins' arguments are airtight. To the point of asphyxiation.

Let me pose you an idea: Europe is post-Christian, and post-Christian Europeans are dying out. They've simply stopped reproducing. Meanwhile, Muslims in Europe are breeding and gradually replacing the post-Christians.

Could it possibly be that there's a connection between faith and having a will to live and reproduce? At the very least there seems to be some empirical evidence for this.

So, Dawkins may be completely correct, but I think he's missing a larger picture.
 
Oh, and BTW, I scored 97% on the "How English are You?" test.

Must be all those "Austin Powers" movies.
 
I think your cause and effect is wrong. It's not the faith that causes people to reproduce in mass numbers, it's one of the very causes of faith in general that results in the religious masses reproducing in such numbers: lack of education.
 
Can you possibly be saying that an education will cause populations simply to give up on living?

For some reason, Alexander Pope comes to mind:

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A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
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Also, "South Park" had a Dawkins character on recently. Apart from having wild monkey sex with "Mrs" Garrison, he also accidentally founded a new science-based religion that caused war among two groups of humans and a group of hyper-intelligent otters.

The point being that Dawkins is so angry and uncompromising, and so vicious in argument, and so ungracious, as to remind me of Khomeini, or any of the Redemptorist priests who harangued me in my childhood. His extremist atheism has him passing the extremist religiosity coming from the other direction.
 
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