May 22, 2005

• Since the site is pushing an agenda, you just have to answer the questions with the most socially unacceptable alternative, and you will score high. The God of the Bible is a complete bastard, according to this site. (Let's not mention the practices of the people around the Israelites; that doesn't further our agenda.)
• I'm interested in hearing the most socially unacceptable alternative to the first question: What is the last of the Ten Commandments?
• I'm sorry. I just finished the quiz, and I have to say that it goes way beyond biased into to deliberate misinterpretation. Like in the first question, that I brought up earlier. Just because, in English, the term "kid" does double duty for both "child" and "young goat" does not mean that commandment was talking about young goats. That's deliberate misinterpretation. The biblical writers did not understand the classification of animals, and the concept of "mammal" is absent from their writings. wtf? it's not that they didn't "understand the classification of animals", it's they didn't have this particular classification. The classification of animals isn't an inherent trait of the universe, it's just a made-up convenience for biologists. Many of these questions are spin, many are not. But it makes all of them look like misrepesentatoin of facts when done so often. This quiz does more harm than help to it's cause. I don't think I want to bother with the second quiz.
• There are so many mistranslations and misrepresentations in there it's actually funny.
• While I'm not Christian and haven't been in some time, the misrepresentations on that site did get very grating after awhile. Even the fundy morons who claim every word of the Bible is 100% accurate understand when Jesus was being metaphorical. And yes, blasting those thousands of years ago for not adhering to the same taxonomy as we use today was particularly stupid. (I have great respect for the J-man even if his followers annoy me to no end...)
• This was a bad post.
• Even the fundy morons who claim every word of the Bible is 100% accurate understand when Jesus was being metaphorical. Not necessarily. I've known some fundies who have take the Bible as 100% literal. The points that "don't make sense" to them are either beyond their mortal understanding or have perhaps changed in scope since the Bible was written. When the world is only 5,000 years old change can happen pretty darn quickly I suppose. Like women needed to leave town to hide their menstrual shame, not eating bacon and bullocks like that, it's all covered under the New Testament's New Deal, except the part about homos. Fags are scary and should be stoned to death regardless of The New Deal with Jesus, just to be on the safe side.
• Regardless of the site's agenda, it does remind one that the Bible is an embarrasing morass of tribal superstition, moral hypocrisy and idealogical inconsistency.
• Well, if anyone feels the need to bone up on their knowledge without, say, actually reading the Bible, soon you'll be able to play the Bible game.
• So this was a bad post? Sorry but so early in the morning I found it amusing. These quizzes mean nothing to me.
• Oh and I thought perhaps others would see the humor.
• the Bible is an embarrasing morass of tribal superstition, moral hypocrisy and idealogical inconsistency The Bible is a collection of folklore written down over a period of about 1500 years. It makes no claim about a unified morality or ideology.
• "It" may not, but almost anyone who has started a religion around "it" will claim that "it" does.
• I'm interested in hearing the most socially unacceptable alternative to the first question: What is the last of the Ten Commandments? Thou shalt not freak thy neighbor's wife except at special parties where the people swing?
• The Bible...makes no claim about a unified morality or ideology. Precisely! It's much too incoherent for that and another reason that certain groups shouldn't be trying to influence law and government with the Bible as their chief supporting document. Don't feel bad bratcat- I thought it was a decent post and the separation of church and state quiz should be particularly eye opening to a lot of people....and I got the humour too.
• Thanks kamus.
• Now that I've given it some thought, I can't tell if this site is some sort of reverse landover baptist site. I searched the site a little, looking for a dead give away, but I'm still unsure. They say their purpose is to "File lawsuits!" so that makes me think it's a mock site, but they have books for sell through paypal. If they are a mock site that's pretty nefarious of them. I often have trouble telling when a religious themed site is mock or not. sighhhhh...
• Yeah, there's an inherent redundancy in religious mockery so subtlety doesn't work.