I actually agree, although I'm in favour of this sort of thing if it's done well.
But this quiz is not clever, most of the ideas he suggests can be explained away fairly reasonably by christians and it's sniping tone won't serve to make any religious people think about their assumptions.
There are plenty of holes in Christian philosophy, try focusing on them rather than just making 'God is mean, not that he exists or anything' type questions.
For example, the one about the number of people at christ's tomb was a good question.
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chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 11:00,
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^^this^^
is precisely what i mean. it uses it's own set of values to attempt to dis-prove someone elses set of values. ultimately working at cross-purposes.
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Just Flange, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 11:02,
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Granted...
Moral outrage won't work to prove the atheists' point. However, it does work against the kind of fundie who thinks - mistakenly - that you need god for morality, and that Christian (or Islamic, or whatever) morality is the same as morality period - and it works by showing that Christian (or Islamic, or whatever) morality, interpreted strictly, is counterintuitive. So if you want to keep your intuitions, then you have a problem.
Remarkably few mainstream believers, I've found, will bite the bullet and ditch their intuitions. They prefer to think that their god agrees with them, rather than the other way around.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 11:06,
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