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
Religion Is Christianity healthy? 22 Aug 200818 Sep 2017 In my Fun with Christians and worldviews piece, I made a passing comment: Some views are just not amenable to a good life. I think Christianity is one, and not because I have some well-worked alternative I’d like to sell you, but because I can learn from the past and… Read More
History One more thing about Davies 26 Nov 2007 This paragraph: This shared failing is no surprise, because the very notion of physical law is a theological one in the first place, a fact that makes many scientists squirm. Isaac Newton first got the idea of absolute, universal, perfect, immutable laws from the Christian doctrine that God created the… Read More
General Science Classification and the periodic table 19 Dec 201227 Jan 2013 It might be thought that classification in the special and historical sciences is occasionally atheoretical, but that in the general sciences, physics and chemistry, it is derived from Theory. But in fact one of the most exemplary cases of empirical classification that led to Theory is in these sciences: the… 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.