If you liked the BeliefNet test, you might enjoy this test. The purpose is to determine if your views about God are rationally consistent, regardless of what they are. A fun test…
Medal of honor. 0 hits, 0 bullets.
Interesting test. I fared less consistently than I hoped (though only by one hit) but I disagree with some of the conclusions because of wording and unasked quesionts. Worth a look for anyone.
4 hits, 1 bullet bitten, and an honorable discharge.
I SUCK!
I’d like to know if any BELIEVERS get through that test without getting shot to pieces.
I ask because, as soon as I finished entering my real beliefs (and got buried for my troubles!), I decide to pretend I was an atheist. I’m not, but I knew the answers an atheist would be expected to give. And sure enough, I zipped through without a scratch.
Now, it’s POSSIBLE I’m just pathetically illogical and inconsistent. But it’s also possible the designers of this quiz have their own agenda.
If any Christians make it to the end alive, let me know!
Well, I’m a Christian and got through with two hits and two bitten bullets but I contest at least one of the hits. I think that earned me the TPM service medal, equivalent to a “participant” certificate I think. I agree the test is somewhat biased against theists but I didn’t let it get to me. The site almost, but not quite admits the bias.
One hit, two bullets. TPM medal of something-or-other. Believer.
Sort of confirms what I’ve always suspected. I may not know what I’m talking about, but I’m consistant with it.
I think Padeye’s comment about it being biased against “believers” is probably correct.
I’m a believer and I got one hit and two bullets. However, I don’t see the logical inconsistency that they supposedly “got” me on.
It was the question about justifying your beliefs on strong convictions. I answered that true, you can justify your (own) beliefs on strong convictions.
Later, when I answered that the rapist would not be justified just because he claimed he was told to do so by God, I answered false, although I could agree that in his own mind he probably consiered himself justified. My interpretation of the question was that they were asking if I felt he was justified, thus an answer of false.
I think they failed to distinguish the perspective for the two instances. Just because I feel justified in doing/believing something doesn’t mean I expect anyone else to believe I am justified in doing/believing so, and ‘justification’ is not exactly a term that connotes exact and universal meaning.
I won’t even get into the part about where they said an absence of evidence would mean that you would have to come to the conclusion that there is not intelligent life on mars, and the whole loch-ness thing. That’s just waaay too much for right now.
I agree that the test is skewed, but not altogether worthless.
Pretty good Ethilrist. That’s likely to be as high as most believers will get.
Safe to say this test may be extremely unkind to some believers. Don’t let it get to you and don’t let it batter your faith. Use it as an opportunity to examine our outlook on the world and logic. Heck, use it to pick apart their logic and conclusions. Faith transcends logic but logic and reason are still good things.
As a believer, I got hit when I said I thought it was incorrect to believe in the Loch Ness Monster when there has been no sign of such, and yet I believe in God. Well who said faith is about reason, anyway?
Athiest. 0 Hits, 0 Bullets.
I scored 0 & 0, too playing as an atheist, which I am. I also fooled around with it starting from agreeing that (a) God definitely exists. The best I could do was 0 direct hits and 2 bitten bullets. I don’t think it’s possible to get through the game cleanly when one makes the initial assumption that God exists.
yes
This game is…how shall I say…biased.
Oh, I got 3 hits and one bullet.
Apparently, one of the game’s assumptions is that if I elect to believe in God, I’m inconsistent not to believe in every other mythical or legendary being.
I gather that, by their logic, if I accept the existence of God, I’m also required to accept the existence of the Loch Ness monster, or I’m “inconsistent.”
Of course, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, that sort of “consistency” is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Ha! I made it through completely clean as a believer. But I was on the lookout for ambiguously worded questions.
1 bullet bitten (saying the scientific consensus is wrong about evolution) & 1 direct hit (irrationality of Nessie belief w/o evidence while saying atheism is matter of faith)- altogether I got a Medal of Distinction for having my beliefs of God thought out & almost consistent.
2 Hits as an agnostic (Don’t Know to first question). Q14 and Q16.
Q14–the one about the Loch Ness Monster–is the most controversial (as the FAQ shows), as I considered the standard of proof for a physical entity like Nessie to be different to that for an allegedly spiritual, non-laws-of-physics-abiding-by entity such as the Christian God.