Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! 23 Apr 2008 Or, “Ive been a baaaddd boy, Abbott” The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!Here is how you matched up against all the levels: Level Score Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Moderate Level 2 (Lustful) Very High Level 3 (Gluttonous) Moderate Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) Low Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) Moderate Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) Very High Level 7 (Violent) High Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) Very High Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) Low Take the Dante’s Divine Comedy Inferno Test Hat tip to Thinking for Free. History Humor Religion
Biology On gods and religion 14 Oct 2009 I have just had a very pleasant meeting of the minds with Justin Barrett here in Oxford, who gave me some of his time. We agreed on a lot, and this has set me thinking that I should document some of the claims I intend to make in my research,… Read More
Religion Truisms 4 12 Jan 2009 Truism 4: There is most likely no God – if all gods but one are rejected with good reason, then by induction so should the final god. Corollary: There are no independent reasons to think there is a god Corollary: If there is a god, no-one can know that for… Read More
History Google Books, the last, worst, library? 30 Aug 2009 Geoff Nunberg over at Language Log gets stuck, justifiably, into the incredibly bad classification of books being scanned at Google Books. Give that this is, as he says, the likely last ever scan of all pre-electronic, pre-Mickey Mouse Amendment copyright, books, it means we have given up good libraries for… Read More
I find myself wallowing in the Sixth Level. Probably not violent enough for the lower levels. And I thought I was a Virtuous Non-Believer (okay, maybe not).
Susan wrote: I find myself wallowing in the Sixth Level. So I will finally get to meet you Susan, as I too have been condemned to the Sixth Level. I not sure whether it’s my masturbatory behaviour or my suicidal tendencies that brought me so low but at least I now have proof positive that I am more evil than Mr Wilkins.
Read ’em and weep: Level 7 And to think that being a mother, a hairdresser, and an all around good person (who just happens to be an atheist and has dabbled in same-sex excursions) is going to have fire rain down on my body while the woe gushes forth from my eyes, all while hanging from a tree with poison fruit. And they say religion isn’t fiction.
What I don’t get is: how come Wilkins, Haubrich and I all have secondary peaks in Fraudulence, Violence and Wrath & Gloom? OK, that last probably reflects a diagnosed mood disorder (for John & me, don’t know about Mike), but I think I’m reasonably honest and peaceful.
The test is incorrect. As an atheist who has heard the Good News, I should be in one of the lower levels—Dis, I think—where I get to sleep in a burial urn when I am not being harangued. Instead, I was placed in limbo with the ancient virtuous pagans, who lived before Christ. Note that the concept of “Limbo” was devised as a place to put people—like unbaptised infants—who defied any logical means of categorizing sinners. Current catholic teaching holds that Limbo does not exist as a place, but the concept still does, and still shows the absurdity of the Xtian afterlife.
Male, level 7, seeks companionable female for romantic excursions on the scenic River of Boiling Blood and Harpy-watching in Suicide Forest. Blasphemers and Sodomites welcome; naked bodies,woe-gushing optional.
Interesting test. I was classified as a non-believer and heretic. Does it say anywhere on the site exactly how the scores are calculated? (I do realize most of the questions line up with a specific level, just wondering about how each answer is weighed.)
I finally found I place where I could take the test, and I made it to purgatory. And as I said earlier, hell is purgatorial anyway.