A quiz that measures how deluded by religion you are.
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On question 6: a study whose participants attempted to assess God's will through prayer found that although the participants had conflicting prior beliefs about the issue being prayed about, many felt that God had confirmed those beliefs, and not one person thought God disagreed with them!
For people like me who hate sitting through video lectures, here's a transcript of the text in the video.
Calculate Your God Delusion Index
by Edward Current
(source: YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCX0JJ16dFM )
To Calculate Your God Delusion Index:
add up all of points
0 - 45
NORMAL
- see world as is
- may search for higher meanings
- no particular 'God Delusions'
50 - 95
MILDLY DELUDED
- seek comfort from benevolent being
- harmless
- may make life simpler, easier
100 - 495
MODERATELY DELUDED
- build relationship with creator
- may seek eternal life
- defense against reality of death
500 - 1,995
HIGHLY DELUDED
- primitive, superstitious
- satisfying deity will result in favors
- selective attribution of successes [but not failures to deity]
2,000 - 9,995
PROFOUNDLY DELUDED
- reject scientific method [and thus...]
- unfit to teach young
- beliefs ridiculous, scorn-worthy
10,000 +
BATSHIT CRAZY
- want human race destroyed
- threat to civilization
- unworthy of any respect, tolerance
with appreciation to Richard Dawkins
© 2008 Edward Current
myspace.com/eddiecurrent
ejc@pisspoor.com
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