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<\/a><\/p>\nPencils down and masks off! \u00a0Tomorrow, I\u2019ll be posting the winners in the Christian round<\/a>, and the Atheist round<\/a> winners on Wednesdays, but you can all start scoring yourselves<\/em> now, because our lovely contestants were\u2026<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Beth \u2013 Author of C6<\/a> and A[this is the person who didn\u2019t send an \u2018A\u2019 response]<\/strong> Brendan Hodge \u2013 Author of C11<\/a> and A1<\/a><\/strong> Christian H \u2013\u00a0Author of C3<\/a> and A3<\/a><\/strong> Elliot \u2013\u00a0Author of C7<\/a> and A7<\/a><\/strong> Gilbert \u2013\u00a0Author of C9<\/a> and A10<\/a><\/strong> Ink \u2013\u00a0Author of C8<\/a> and A8<\/a><\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n Chana Messinger\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Author of C4<\/a> and A5<\/a><\/strong> Chris Hallquist\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Author of C10<\/a> and A2<\/a><\/strong> Guy Fletcher-Wood\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Author of C2<\/a> and A9<\/a><\/strong> Ozy Frantz \u2013 Author of C1<\/a> and A11<\/a><\/strong> Steve\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Author of C5<\/a> and A6<\/a><\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n Joy\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Author of C12<\/a> and A4<\/a><\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n So, how\u2019d you do? Did you successfully pair up entries? Guess true religious beliefs? Spot denominations from fifty feet?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pencils down and masks off! \u00a0Tomorrow, I\u2019ll be posting the winners in the Christian round, and the Atheist round winners on Wednesdays, but you can all start scoring yourselves now, because our lovely contestants were\u2026 \u00a0 Christians: Beth \u2013 Author of C6 and A[this is the person who didn\u2019t send an \u2018A\u2019 response] I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":8005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ideologicalturingtest"],"yoast_head":"\nChristians:<\/h3>\n
\nI was raised Roman Catholic and cut my apologetic teeth in discussions with atheist friends. \u00a0I just finished my MA in Theology (my only 2 years of Catholic school). I consider myself Vincentian & Franciscan by breeding and Dominican at heart.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m a moderately conservative Catholic who finds a lot of inspiration in Dante and Plato. On Arnold Kling\u2019s three axes of political thought I tend towards the civilization-barbarism axis, though I have an economistic and libertarian side which I\u2019ve picked up as a data analyst and thus someone who focuses a lot on the limits of knowledge. I think both secularists and Christians often fail to fully understand the implications of the fact that we have bodies and that they mean something. \u00a0Blogs at DarwinCatholic<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI am Christian H of prompt #3. I attend Anglican churches and believe most of the Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s teachings, but I was confirmed Lutheran and I spent my undergraduate attending a non-denominational church. I have an MA in English Literature from a Canadian university. I sometimes call myself a tentativist. \u00a0Blogs at The Thinking Grounds<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI was raised a non-denominational evangelical protestant in the midwest (son of a pastor). Converted to Catholicism at Yale, where I majored in Humanities. Thesis on Existential Anxiety and Conversion in Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Aquinas. M.A. in Theology from Dominican House of Studies, Washington. Thesis on the basis of intelligibility in the works of Michel Foucault and Thomas Aquinas. I\u2019m a philosophy nerd with agoraphobia about my intellectual pursuits.<\/p>\n
\nGrowing up, I started out as what Americans would call a Cafeteria Catholic. As I started thinking for myself I noted that world-view was full of contradictions. But instead of going atheist I doubled down and gradually turned into the reactionary Catholic I\u2019m now. In secular Germany that makes me seem rather eccentric. \u00a0Blogs at The Last Conformer<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nInk is a cradle Catholic, originally raised in the South. It took a move to the dissident North to make her realize how much she really loved her Catholicism. She traces her ideological pedigree as Thomistic-Aristotelian\/Platonic, but loves to add Church Fathers if context allows. She strongly dislikes \u201cbecause the Bible says so\u201d as the answer to a question and frequently searches for answers in science and natural law. She recognizes faith and reason as complements, not opposites.<\/p>\nAtheists:<\/h3>\n
\nGrew up in a Reform Jewish household that was atheist, too, though I didn\u2019t know it. I went through my own constructions of God, theistic evolution, and pantheism before landing on atheism. I\u2019ve been developing and growing in atheism, skepticism, secularism, humanism and rationalism ever since. \u00a0Blogs at The Merely Real<\/a> and contributes to Strange Notions<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nRaised liberal protestant, atheist at 16, atheist blogger at 18. Went to graduate school in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, literally the top philosophy of religion department in the world, and was deeply disappointed. These days, I think a lot about making sure humans don\u2019t accidentally destroy the world. \u00a0Blogs at The Uncredible Hallq<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m an atheist, recently realised that I\u2019m ignostic, and this is probably why I\u2019ve never \u201cgrokked\u201d god. \u00a0I\u2019m a consequentialist and thus convinced religion is amoral at best. \u00a0I want to take part because I love the questions and writing my \u201cChristian\u201d answer last year advanced my understanding of Christianity.<\/p>\n
\nI grew up in an agnostic family and converted to Catholicism in high school. After two years, I discovered skepticism and deconverted. I\u2019m a rationalist, a naturalist, and a utilitarian. I\u2019m still vaguely annoyed I don\u2019t get to be a nun.<\/p>\n
\n32 year old atheist here. My wife and I began dating when we were 16 and have more or less been together ever since, currently married 5 years. (if you\u2019re doing the math, yes there was some dragging of the feet on both our parts). She\u2019s a Yankee fan, I\u2019m a Met fan. Shes an evangelical christian, I\u2019m an atheist. Along with our daughter, we are a blissful family. As Golde says \u2018If that\u2019s not love, what is?\u2019<\/p>\nAmbiguous:<\/h3>\n
\nSaved at 2 years old, I grew up immersed in \u2014 and finding much of my identity within \u2014 evangelical Christianity, with a strong, sincere faith. My attorney-father encouraged belief and questioning, but in college 3 things changed my belief in God: 1. Religious studies courses that challenged biblical inerrancy, 2. Reading the NT in the original Greek and 3. A newfound love for cosmology. Now I view myself as a \u201ccultural Christian\u201d and agnostic without belief, but without 100% surety, either.<\/p>\n