As was the case yesterday, you may want to keep this year’s answer key and the list of Christian answers at hand while you look through the results from round two. The top three scorers in round two were all sincere Christians. Eve Tushnet took home ‘Most Christian Christian’ with 88% of Christian respondents rating her entry number nine as ‘Likely Christian’ or ‘Very Likely Christian.’ The next two slots were won by Elliot (entry five, 86%) and Gilbert (entry... Read more
May I have the envelope please? (You may want to keep the answer key and the list of entries handy in another tab). Drumroll…. The Most Atheist Atheist was Shawn (blogger at Belief in People and entry number four) who scored 81%. Right behind him were two successful Christians: Gilbert from The Last Conformer (entry five, 78%) and Elliot from The Paraphasic (entry eleven, 71%). All the other Christians clustered at the bottom of the heap. The only actual atheist... Read more
Later today, you’ll find out how well you did at spotting the fakers in the Atheist round (Christian round scores follow tomorrow), but now it’s time for the big reveal. At the bottom of the post is a table sorted by entry number, so you can check your guesses more efficiently. So, without further ado, let’s meet our lovely contestants: Christians: Alan – Author of A7 and C13 I am an ordained pastor. I grew up in a mainline... Read more
In June of 2012, I took one leg of the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon, promising to put up twelve posts in twelve hours, all of which were prompted by comments on the mammoth thread “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality.” I started with empirics, and somehow meandered off into discussion of companionate marriage and bank robberies-as-first-dates by the end. The Blogathon raises money for the SSA, and, of course, they’ll welcome your donations even if you’re reading this... Read more
The answers go up tomorrow, so whip people to take a look at the Christian round and turn in guesses by midnight tonight. If you’re sending it around or posting to your blog, encourage people to start with number thirteen and work backwards. There was a lot of attrition. Meanwhile, I’m recovering from Blogathon in the best possible way… a full day lecture on data analysis and visualization by Tufte! (He’s the author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, for which... Read more
This post is number twelve of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I’m responding to comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread all day. You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you’re religious) here. At 9am this morning, we kicked of this blogathon on homosexuality with methodological questions about statistics and social science, and that’s how we’re going to fracking end it! William Saletan is covering... Read more
This post is number eleven of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I’m responding to comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread all day. You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you’re religious) here. Ok, I’m one post from the end of the Blogathon, so I’m allowed to go off the deep end a little, right? In the last post, the Alan Jacobs quote suggested that... Read more
This post is number ten of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I’m responding to comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread all day. You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you’re religious) here. Alan Jacobs had an interesting response to the Noah Millman piece about the gay Mormon’s companionate marriage I was discussing in the last post. Jacobs wrote: What this story is pointing to... Read more
This post is number nine of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I’m responding to comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread all day. You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you’re religious) here. There’s been an essay making the rounds by Josh Weed, a gay Mormon man who’s been happily married to his wife for ten years and has had several children with her. I... Read more
This post is number eight of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I’m responding to comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread all day. You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you’re religious) here. At one point in the discussion, Ubiquitous was expanding on Thomist philosophy and laid out a ‘prebuttal’ (of which I’m excerpting only one idea): In a hale and mature adult human, eyes... Read more
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