Which Enemy of the Christian Faith Are You?

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The discussion revolves around a quiz that categorizes participants into various belief systems, including Atheist, Philosopher/Scientist, Christian, Heretic, Nothing, and Creationist. Many participants identify as Atheists or Philosopher/Scientists, often humorously reflecting on the quiz's predictability and limitations. There are debates about the validity of the quiz results, with some expressing frustration over the lack of nuanced options and the inability to accurately represent their beliefs. The conversation touches on broader themes of faith, science, and the perception of Christianity, with some participants arguing that the quiz unfairly labels individuals and oversimplifies complex belief systems. Overall, the thread serves as a light-hearted exploration of personal beliefs through the lens of a quiz, while also prompting deeper reflections on the intersection of religion and science.
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Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!

Step right up and play the game that's got 'em talking from the Bible Belt to the Vatican!

Well, not really, but I thought it was funny. Play here:

http://robertandtim.topcities.com/quiz/christ/christquiz.html

I'm an "Atheist". :cool:
 
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I'm a philosopher/scientist, apparently. Oh well, I've been called worse.
 
Ha,ha, these tests are so predictible...
Atheist, by the way
 
I'm a philospher/scientist as well. I'm Agnostic myself.
 
I'm Nothing. "One of Christianities worst enemies" :)
http://robertandtim.topcities.com/quiz/christ/nothing.html
 
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Atheist. Big surprise there...
 
I came out atheist too. What did you have to answer to make philosopher/scientist?
 
I'm an "Atheist" as well. What are the odds? :wink:
 
I'm a "nothing". So true.

"You are one of Christianities worst enemies. While with enough evidence or persuasion, scientists, philosophers, even atheists could be converted to the side of the lord, you are utterly untouchable." :biggrin:
 
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1. 2
2. 1
3. 3
4. 7
5. 3
6. 2
7. 3
8. 4
9. 1
10. 4

selfAjoint: That got me philosopher/scientist.
 
  • #11
You philosopher/scientists keep working and studying. You'll make it to atheist some day. :smile: (sorry... couldn't help it.)
 
  • #12
I'm a philosopher/scientist, apparently. Oh well, I've been called worse.
Moi aussi!

selfAjoint: That got me philosopher/scientist.

That's odd. The only answer I had on your list was 9.

Damn, I wanted to get "Nothing" like Check.
 
  • #13
Hey! It made me an atheist and I don't want to be an atheist! :cry:
That's just not right.

By the way, I think Christianity is a wonderful religion. It's unfortunate that almost no one practices it. :wink:
 
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Atheism is shallow, and truly pointless.
Given any belief system, has at it's crux some articles of faith ie: That science can answer all questions regarding the multi-universe. I shudder to think that any true advance in social engineering can occur, based on the concept that no higher power exists, and that each individual human being is free to raise any kind of havoc, with no qualms of ultimate answerability. True, Christianity is as guilty of that type of havoc as any other belief system, but I found a peace inside myself when I turned from atheist to believer, and could look to a power beyond me to anchor my world view.
Please understand that "believers" are not a priori morons, just people that look beyond what is called "the real world".
 
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Philosopher/Scientist
 
  • #16
Not to my surprise, I'm an Atheist.
 
  • #17
notal33t said:
Atheism is shallow, and truly pointless.

Will you just play the darn game? :-p
 
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LOL! Seems I'm in good company. I'm an atheist too! Very funny game.

What's a nothing? I might have to go back and play with different answer choices to see if I can get that to come up!
 
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Philosopher/scientist.

Too many questions were missing options that I would have liked to pick. I was forced to settle for 'next best' very often, even if that was far from my best answer.

Ooooo...Tom's angry :devil:

Ain't no God-fearing Christians out here ? :cry: PF will be accused of group-think.
 
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It will let you be a Christian if you were one. I went back and chose all those "God" options, and it came up with a rather snarky thing saying something along the lines of "you're not an enemy of the Christian Faith, you're one of them" and talked about blind following.

And if you choose all the Satan options (spending Sundays refreshing the supply of goats had me laughing), you can be a heretic.

I didn't even understand the answers to the question "what motivates you?" What motivates me to do what?
 
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Moonbear said:
It will let you be a Christian if you were one. I went back and chose all those "God" options, and it came up with a rather snarky thing saying something along the lines of "you're not an enemy of the Christian Faith, you're one of them" and talked about blind following.

I believe it also said at the end of the quiz that Atheist was the "right answer". Is Scientist right or wrong or in between??
 
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When I took the test, I was split between two different answers on a few of questions. When I took it again and changed 3 answers, I got Philospher/Scientist. The first time I was a nothing.

Geeze, how do you get to be an atheist?
 
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notal33t said:
Please understand that "believers" are not a priori morons, just people that look beyond what is called "the real world".

To what? The unreal world?

I fall in with the pack, by the way. Atheist.
 
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Atheist...that "Nothing" blurb is pretty funny, btw.
 
  • #25
I'm a Nothing.

cookiemonster
 
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Ooh, I found a new character: the Catholic Priest! It seems by listing a lot of contradictory sounding things, you can get this one :)

http://robertandtim.topcities.com/quiz/christ/priest.html

They said there's 7 categories, and we've now found 6 of them (atheist, scientist/philosopher, heretic, Christian, nothing, Catholic priest). Okay, got to find out who the last character is...on your mark, get set...GO!

P.S. For those of you curious to see what it says about the other types: scientist/philosopher http://robertandtim.topcities.com/quiz/christ/philoscience.html

heretic http://robertandtim.topcities.com/quiz/christ/heretic.html

Christian http://robertandtim.topcities.com/quiz/christ/christian.html


****
Ya snooze you lose! Aha! I found it! The last "character" is...

drumroll please...



The Creationist!
http://robertandtim.topcities.com/quiz/christ/creationist.html
:smile:
 
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Very cool, Moonbear!
oh, here's all the listings..
http://robertandtim.topcities.com/quiz/christ/
 
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Say, what's with all those T-shaped right eyes ?
 
  • #29
Math Is Hard said:
Very cool, Moonbear!
oh, here's all the listings..
http://robertandtim.topcities.com/quiz/christ/

LOL! You snuck that in while I was pasting in the last link :) That's cheating going to the directory! :biggrin: It was more fun my way, of trying all sorts of combinations. Apparently, the real requirement for changing almost anything into a Catholic Priest is to select "The rosy faced youth of today" under the question about motivation. :eek:

This was good amusement for the night.
 
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  • #30
Moonbear said:
This was good amusement for the night.
:biggrin: I agree!

If I read the javascript correctly, it goes like this:
mostly 1 responses = philoscience
mostly 2 responses = heretic
mostly 3 responses = creationist
mostly 4 responses = atheist
mostly 5 responses = priest
mostly 6 responses = christian
mostly 7 responses = nothing

I think it probably just takes an average, but I didn't look at it too hard.
 
  • #31
Math Is Hard said:
:biggrin: I agree!

If I read the javascript correctly, it goes like this:
mostly 1 responses = philoscience
mostly 2 responses = heretic
mostly 3 responses = creationist
mostly 4 responses = atheist
mostly 5 responses = priest
mostly 6 responses = christian
mostly 7 responses = nothing

I think it probably just takes an average, but I didn't look at it too hard.
Those wouldn't correspond to my selections. When I got philo/science I chose heavily on the 4's and above.
 
  • #32
Evo said:
Those wouldn't correspond to my selections. When I got philo/science I chose heavily on the 4's and above.

Yes, atheist + priest + nothing = philoscience ! :biggrin:
 
  • #33
You're right, Evo, on closer inspection it looks like the choices correspond to different category variables to be incremented.

These appear to be the atheist choices:

1. 6
2. 2
3. 4
4. 1
5. 5
6. 2
7. 4
8. 6
9. 4
10. 4
 
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  • #34
I'm a Christian. Weird because I though I put down some Aethist-like answers. Oh well, guess I'm the only one here who likes to be Sabbathin' it up!
 
  • #35
Atheist.

Wrong!
 
  • #36
Dissident Dan said:
Atheist...that "Nothing" blurb is pretty funny, btw.

Nothing was what i got, perhaps that's the best considering I am the philosophy mentor :-p
 
  • #37
The first time I got atheist also, which isn't really correct. :cry: By making two changes on questions where my answers were a toss up I got philosopher/scientist, much better... :-p
 
  • #38
Okay I did it again and now it says I'm Moses.

Okay not really. It doesn't seem to allow for belief in a God that doesn't micro-manage the universe; or for beliefs that come without a rationalization to support that belief. I think this is why I came up atheist. The author doesn't seem to understand the concepts of faith or moderate beliefs.
 
  • #39
notal33t said:
Please understand that "believers" are not a priori morons, just people that look beyond what is called "the real world".

And what would that be?

I'm an atheïst. Big surprise :biggrin:
 
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  • #40
I vote for God. Somebody has to moderate the cosmological forum page [not to mention collapse the waveform so we can observe all that can be observed]. Beside's, quantum physics insists there must be fluctuations in the cosmic morality fabric.
 
  • #41
Man this thread is a bit unfair on Christians.

The Bob (2004 ©)
 
  • #42
I seem to be the only Heretic so far. I find myself in some excellent historical company however, many famous scientists, artists, writers, etc. were labeled heretics.
 
  • #43
The Bob said:
Man this thread is a bit unfair on Christians.

The Bob (2004 ©)

yes, it does appear that way, however do remember science will not recognize any faith as valid due to the pure definition of science itself, and you are participating in a science forum. :smile: i imagine if some of these who label themselves as atheists were to visit any kind of religious forum, the possibility of them receiving a negative shower of words in regards to natural evolution would be high too. althought these little surveys are fun, i always think it's best to not assign a label to yourself as an individual, because afterall, an individual isn't one when they follow another's way :smile:
 
  • #44
Kerrie said:
yes, it does appear that way, however do remember science will not recognize any faith as valid due to the pure definition of science itself, and you are participating in a science forum. :smile: i imagine if some of these who label themselves as atheists were to visit any kind of religious forum, the possibility of them receiving a negative shower of words in regards to natural evolution would be high too. althought these little surveys are fun, i always think it's best to not assign a label to yourself as an individual, because afterall, an individual isn't one when they follow another's way :smile:

Nice Point. We should all learn to get along. :biggrin:

The Bob (2004 ©)
 
  • #45
We have to remember this is all just for fun. It's a game, not to be taken seriously. Clearly there are Christians here getting labeled as atheists by that game. To try to lump everyone into 7 categories isn't something to be serious about. As has been pointed out, it doesn't take into account all the flavors of Christianity, so if you aren't of the Bible-thumping, proselytizing variety, you're probably going to wind up being a nothing or atheist or something like that on this quiz.
 
  • #46
The proper result for me would be: Born-Again-Catholic-Billy Jack-Mormon with tendencies towards Buddhism, but I didn't see that one come up.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
The proper result for me would be: Born-Again-Catholic-Billy Jack-Mormon with tendencies towards Buddhism, but I didn't see that one come up.
Um, how do you parse that? Is it:

Born-Again / Catholic / Billy Jack / Mormon
(and if so what's a "Billy Jack"?)

or maybe:

Born-Again-Catholic-Billy / Jack-Mormon
(in which case what's a Catholic-Billy? a Jack-Mormon?)

or ?

:confused:
 
  • #48
notal33t said:
Please understand that "believers" are not a priori morons, just people that look beyond what is called "the real world".

Us Philosophers and Scientists do the same thing. I don't think who ever made that little voting site was Christian. Christianity teaches to treat those around you with the same respect and friendship you yourself would want from others. There are no enemies in christianity.

Why do you think the United States, founded by our Four Fathers based the laws of the United States on the Ten Commandments? As a result we live in a country where people have freedom of speech and our free to practice there religion whether it be Islamic, Judaism, christian, and other religions.

There are symmetries between Christianity and Science. I forget the Philosopher's name, but he stated that in order for a large group of people to live together, you must establish a system to keep order within that large group. Christianity teaches the Ten Commandments, which were used by our four fathers to establish a system to keep order in the United States, being populated by a large majority. As a result we now live in a Country that allows a lot of things that which makes this country great. This country has always been the country that would ask if they could help other countries in a crisis. This country itself has acted as a True Christian treating all fellow Countries as brothers and sisters.

However, this country also believes in punishment. We are willing to punish those who attack us. We are an eye for an eye country. Yet this country is forgiving, and allowing for any nation to ask for our help if they need it. And this country has never backed down from another country needing help. Even if that country did not ask for help. We stepped in France and took out the Nazis and gave the French back there country. They didn't ask for our help, but we did it because we had to. This country bases its actions and decisions on what it believes in. Freedom, forgiveness, justice, and morality.

Don't know why I typed that all. Just felt like it.
 
  • #49
plover said:
Um, how do you parse that? Is it:

Born-Again / Catholic / Billy Jack / Mormon
(and if so what's a "Billy Jack"?)

or maybe:

Born-Again-Catholic-Billy / Jack-Mormon
(in which case what's a Catholic-Billy? a Jack-Mormon?)

or ?

:confused:

Well I can't imagine why there is any confusion! :biggrin: Billy Jack refers to my bit of native American heritage and my interest in these beliefs. The Jack Mormon works since I am likely excumuinicated from the LDS by now - considering I haven't attended for twenty years. Since I have been born again and was raised catholic...and am a Jack Catholic at least... In fact it is actually much more complicated than that. I explored a lot of religions while in my early twenties.
 
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Oh yes, Billy Jack was the name of a fictional character from a 1970's movie by the same name. The movie sought to popularize the plight of the modern native Americans. It also explored a few of their beliefs...in a Hollywood sort of way.

Have you ever heard the old song "One Tin Soldier" by Coven? It was the theme song for the movie.
 
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