Why can’t we get a US version of Penitents Compete? Hell, I’d watch, and I never watch reality shows.
I love the part about how they vet them to make sure they’re atheists, and not just people looking for a free trip.
PANEL: So, are you an atheist?
APPLICANT: Yup.
PANEL: So you don’t believe in God?
APPLICANT: Nope.
PANEL: You sure?
APPLICANT: Swear to God!
PANEL: Get out!
You only get a trip if you convert? Why bother?
I like the idea of a show where theists and atheists argue, but the game show genre doesn’t seem to be very well-conceived. If there was a prize for being unconvertable, though, it would be easy money for me.
What does an atheist win if he converts one of the holy men to atheism?
Either the rabbi will have to be very, very persuasive, or the the male contestants will have to be very, very already circumcised.
Because it’s nobody’s business but theirs.
Is-tan-buuullllll . . .
Is Vatican City a holy site to Greek Orthodox adherents?
To make it fair, the atheists should get a trip somewhere regardless of whether they convert or not.
Yeah, isn’t a free vacation a pretty big incentive to “convert”? You know the cameramen are likely going to work an 8 hour (or less) day and then tear off to go party, leaving the “convert” to do the same.
They’ve been getting along a lot better lately:
I think you mean Constantinopolis. Efharisto poli.
No. Seems like a weird decision.
Not since 1453 at the very least. Birşey değil.
I have a date in Constatinople.
She’ll be waiting in Istanbul. Hell, even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
Aaaaaand del segno in post #6, once more through the chorus, and Bob’s yer uncle. That’s dress rehearsal, kids, see you opening night!
Mecca, Vatican City, Jerusalem, Tibet, or Las Vegas.
nooooo, but i guess the show is in constantinople already?
perhaps mt. athos is the converting human is male, and double up on jerusalem if the converting human is female.
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
Although I abhor prostelgzing when I’m the victim, since these are volunteers I think it would be a really interesting show to watch. I think most atheists (are agnostics allowed on the show?) will be pretty hard to turn, as a good portion of them came from religious backgrounds already and rejected them. Ambivalent atheists might be a little easier, those that are atheist by default and never really thought about it (although they are more agnostic). I could see some atheists being drawn to the more secular versions of Buddhism, and other nearly secular religions like Unitarians and Quakers, but that’s kind of cheating for the purposes of a game show.
FWIW Muslims are actually much stricter about converts needing circumcision.
I like the way you think.
It might be fun to have a second season with Scientologists, Randians, Pastafarians, and Discordians.