Leah Libresco\u2019s \u201cTuring Test\u201d 2012 has begun!<\/a> This is a thing, not quite a contest and not quite a kabuki debate, in which atheists and Christians submit two sets of answers to a single set of questions. One set is their honest answers. The other is an answer from the point of view of whichever thing they\u2019re not, religiously speaking\u2013thus atheists impersonate Christians and vice versa. Then everyone gets to vote on how well they did! It\u2019s anonymous until the big reveal, and the questions this time around are really fascinating. So go! Go, guess, explore. I\u2019ll be posting more about this after the big reveal.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leah Libresco\u2019s \u201cTuring Test\u201d 2012 has begun! This is a thing, not quite a contest and not quite a kabuki debate, in which atheists and Christians submit two sets of answers to a single set of questions. One set is their honest answers. The other is an answer from the point of view of whichever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11,14,13,12],"class_list":["post-5777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-his-banner-over-me-was-love","tag-leah-libresco","tag-o-reason-not-the-need","tag-sophia-is-a-woman"],"yoast_head":"\n
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